20-year-old Erika and her son Deivy have made a long journey from Venezuela to Medellin, Colombia's second largest city.

Wahida made the perilous journey across the Mediterranean Sea with her two sons, to escape persecution. They are now living in Moria on the island of Lesvos. "I just want the best for my family”, she says.

Fighting in northwest Syria, including Idlib, has uprooted more than a million Syrians—triggering the largest displacement in the country’s nine-year-old war. Here’s what you need to know.

Sami is 18, 'football-crazy' and on a mission to make it.

Imagine this: you’ve escaped persecution in your own country. You arrive somewhere new and you don’t’ know a soul. You don’t speak the language and you can’t even read the letters of the alphabet.

Wondering how you can help Syrian children and families whose lives have been upended by war and crisis? We've answered your questions.

This year for “16 days” we highlight 16 basic rights that women and girls are so often denied in the places where we work, as well as the ways IRC supports women and girls in claiming their rights and acting as agents of change in their communities.

1933 American branch of the European-based International Relief Association (IRA) founded at the suggestion of Albert Einstein to assist Germans suffering under Hitler. Refugees from Mussolini's Italy and Franco's Spain are later assisted.