Launched in May 2022, the IRC’s Healing Classrooms approach helps schools and teachers to develop inclusive and nurturing environments where refugee and asylum seeking children can gain the necessary skills to reach their full potential. 

2017 has been tough for millions of people around the world. We’ve seen the likes of a global famine, the Trump administration’s Travel Ban and, closer to home, the UK Government turning its back on child refugees.

Focusing on the South Sudanese refugee caseload in Kenya and Uganda, this study sought to identify challenges and opportunities vis-à-vis early solutions planning and practical actions that can be taken to operationalise early solutions planning.

Syrian refugee children in Beirut often have to help support their families by selling flowers or even begging on the streets. The IRC’s safe spaces give these children a place to just be kids.

Shaimah is 15 years old and has been living in the Cherso refugee camp in Northern Greece for over six months with her aunt and uncle. Living in constant uncertainty, her wish for the future is simple.

On November 16th, IRC President and CEO David Miliband will sit down with acclaimed journalist and author Jonathan Freeland to discuss key questions about the refugee crisis as part of the Alan Howard Foundation / JW3 Speaker Series. 

Nyathok Deng feels as though Kakuma refugee camp in Kenya has become home away from home as she returns for the second time following more violence in her native South Sudan.

Razia is an activist bringing feminism to Cox's Bazar refugee camp in Bangladesh.

The International Rescue Committee (IRC) is extremely concerned about escalating tensions and hostilities in Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region, where many refugees, displaced families, and local communities are reeling from a year of multiple humanitarian disasters.

In the face of ongoing violence — and the anti-refugee agendas pushed by some politicians — resilient Syrians are enduring the unimaginable and generous communities are taking them in. Here are 10 moments from 2016 (in no particular order) that give us a glimpse of the best of humanity.