Afro-Appalachian folk artist Mon Rovîa's latest single, "Winter Wash 24," draws inspiration from the work done by the International Rescue Committee.

Eight-year-old Fatima has a dream: to become a doctor, so she can help people in her community.

Since mid-2013, the International Rescue Committee has promoted community awareness about violence against women, setting up services for survivors and supporting health workers. Dr. Ahmed is one of several key staffers at the IRC-supported health facility in Mogadishu, where the first survivor of sexual violence sought support in February 2014. Since then, the IRC team has helped more than 30 survivors.

Cavine Akello was a 17-year-old high-school student when she became pregnant with her son, Rwot Okonya Billgram, whose name means “God has helped me” in the Luo language of Uganda. Cavine’s parents died when she was a child and her grandmother, who raised her, died when she was 14. The father of her child abandoned her after she told him she was pregnant and later was killed in a car accident.

On April 6 last year, Gloria Ibrahim, 29, and her family woke to the clatter of gunfire. They ran outside to find a cadre from Boko Haram, the radical Islamist militia that controls parts of northeastern Nigeria, rounding up villagers.

Last summer, militants attacked the Yazidi people of Sinjar in northwestern Iraq. The International Rescue Committeerecently traveled through northern Iraq to document this forgotten humanitarian crisis.

Intense street battles are engulfing residential neighbourhoods as the Iraqi army fights to retake Mosul, Iraq’s second-largest city, from ISIS.