Tens of thousands of people have fled Aleppo as Syrian government forces take control of eastern areas of the city following months of besiegement and aerial bombardment. Here’s a closer look at the situation.

Targeted cash assistance provided by the IRC allows displaced families to meet their needs in a flexible and dignified way.

New IRC report reveals countries threatened by a coronavirus "double emergency". Here are the five fragile states that could be devastated by COVID-10 if we don't take immediate action.

The second major storm to hit southeast Africa in six weeks threatens to devastate an area already compromised by conflict, poverty and drought.

Since June 2012, widespread violence between Buddhists and Muslims in Myanmar’s Rakhine State has uprooted hundreds of thousands of people. The majority are Muslims who call themselves Rohingya—the world’s largest stateless group and one of the most persecuted. The latest violence only makes the resolution of the world’s longest civil war all the more elusive.

Two month old Mamie Koiwo screwed up her face in surprise and let out a brief wail as a nurse in apple green scrubs administered the polio vaccine. In October, Mamie entered the world just twenty feet away in the delivery ward of the Konia Health Centre in Lofa county, northern Liberia. Only days earlier, the last Ebola case had been registered in the country in the largest outbreak ever recorded, leading to over 4800 confirmed deaths in Liberia alone.

Do refugees have to seek asylum in the first country they enter? Why don't asylum seekers stop before they get to the UK? It’s time to separate the myths from the facts…