An online auction of personal possessions and signed memorabilia donated by famous musicians, actors, artists and comedians has raised £65,000 for the International Rescue Committee to provide support for refugees driven from their homes by the violence in Syria.

On Tuesday 19th January Edelman was joined by David Miliband, CEO & President, International Rescue Committee, at the launch of the Edelman Trust Barometer 2016. Miliband delivered the annual Trust lecture alongside Richard Edelman, CEO & President, Edelman, and Ed Williams, CEO, Edelman UK, who presented the Trust Barometer global and UK findings respectively.

On Sunday 25th October, an array of London’s biggest stars from film, theatre, music and television came together for ‘A Song for Syria’, a one off performance at St. Paul’s Covent Garden to raise money for Syrian refugees. The event raised over £4,500 for the two beneficiary charities; the International Rescue Committee and Hand in Hand for Syria.

The refugee crisis on European shores has opened our eyes to a global refugee crisis that is unprecedented in scale. More people have been forced to flee their homes by conflict and crisis than at any time since World War II. 

International Rescue Committee UK (IRC-UK) is profoundly saddened by the death of our beloved colleague, Mary Anne Schwalbe, who passed away on 14 September. Mary Anne was a founding director of IRC-UK when it started in 1997 and remained a trustee and Development Committee member, continuing to make a valued contribution despite the difficulties her ill health presented in recent months.

The Financial Times has chosen the International Rescue Committee for its 2014-2015 charity seasonal appeal.

I recently met a group of mothers in Turkana, a remote desert area in northwest Kenya, who belong to mothers groups that support one another and learn about the best ways to look after their children in areas of health, particularly nutrition, and hygiene. Turkana is a region where malnutrition rates among children under five are extremely high.

With female leaders from the area, we asked the project participants, ages 11 to 16, to discuss their goals, their imagined personal and professional lives, their visions for their country. They had witnessed the consequences of absent medical care and rampant corruption; but they had ideas, and they wanted to be the ones who would change Congo.

Every day, International Rescue Committee staff members greet thousands of refugees arriving on the island, providing them with reliable information and guidance — commodities as valuable as food and shelter. Most of these new arrivals, while thankful for reaching dry land safely, are exhausted, wet and frightened. IRC counsellors, social workers and translators do their best to address their concerns and answer their most pressing questions.

Forced by war to abandon their businesses and former lives, Syrian women are creating new opportunities for themselves and their families in the countries where they’ve found refuge. Meet five resilient and ambitious entrepreneurs in Jordan in our new multimedia series, Starting up again: Syrian entrepreneurs in exile.