The IRC conducted a multi-sector needs assessment in 2024, covering the sectors of Protection, Health, Education and Economic Wellbeing, to identify key needs to support humanitarian program design in the coming period. Findings show that humanitarian needs are at an all time high, particularly impacted by shifts in the context in 2023, including the earthquake in Turkiye and the highest levels of violence seen across northern Syria since 2020. Millions of individuals continue to be unable to meet their basic needs.

An alarming estimate of 15.3 million people in Afghanistan were facing food insecurity in 2023. Today, starvation could likely kill more Afghans than the last twenty years of war have.

Executive summary of the International Rescue Committee's 2024 European Elections agenda for change outlining how EU leadership can lead with humanity in a world of escalating crises.

Four reasons why Myanmar ranks as one of the countries most at risk of experiencing a worsening humanitarian crisis in 2024.

Four reasons why Ecuador is at risk of experiencing a worsening humanitarian crisis in 2024.