Sudan is now the country with the largest number of displaced people and the largest child displacement crisis in the world.

The 2024 Emergency Watchlist identifies and debunks five myths that have captured the discourse surrounding the world’s most pressing humanitarian crises.

  Since the last European elections in 2019, the world has changed dramatically. The number of people in humanitarian need has more than doubled to nearly 300 million. Displacement has soared by almost 40% to 110 million. And the global population facing acute food insecurity has risen by 160% to almost 350 million.

The IRC was excited to attend the third edition of the European Humanitarian Forum (EHF), which took place Monday 18 - Tuesday 19 March 2024 in Brussels and was livestreamed via the EHF website. IRC schedule | IRC panels and talks | Photo exhibit | InnovAid Prize | Our participants About the European Humanitarian Forum The Forum was co-organised by the European Commission (DG ECHO) and Belgium in the framework of its Presidency of the Council

17-year-old Bahar dreams of going to England. After spending the majority of his teenage years alone, moving around in search of sanctuary, his hope is to be united with his uncle’s family who’ve lived in the UK for over 20 years. Although he followed all the steps to apply for family reunification with his uncle in the UK, his application was rejected, leaving him stuck in Greece. Bahar’s future is again uncertain.

Here's why the International Rescue Committee’s Emergency Watchlist ranks the occupied Palestinian territory as one of the countries most at risk of worsening humanitarian crisis in 2024.

Andrii Kokorin, 52, and his wife Mariia Borysova, 39, will never forget the day they met. They were restoring an old monastery together in Ukraine—Andrii as a builder and carpenter and Mariia as an artist.  “You sat down next to me, and, by some divine providence, I gave you my hand, and you gave me yours,” said Andrii.