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Refugee-owned businesses to support across the world
From coffee and catering to clothing and jewelry, here are a selection of small businesses owned by refugees to inspire you.
- Article
- 26 October 2023
Meet the refugee health care heroes fighting the coronavirus
When you have gone without care, you make it your mission to heal.
- Article
- 26 October 2023
‘It’s not hardship, but humanity, that defines us’
Threatened by gangs in El Salvador, Valentina escaped danger by resettling to the United States. She tells her powerful story so others like her might have a chance at safety and freedom.
- Article
- 26 October 2023
After fleeing war in Iraq, this footballing teenager has his sights set on one goal
Sami is 18, 'football-crazy' and on a mission to make it.
- Article
- 26 October 2023
Meet a nurse practitioner and refugee fighting the coronavirus
Torbertha Torbor is just one of the thousands of refugees and immigrants working on the frontlines battling the coronavirus.
- Article
- 26 October 2023
Five famous football players who fled war
From Victor Moses to Luka Modrić, refugee footballers, past and present, have thrilled soccer fans around the globe.
- Article
- 26 October 2023
IRC UK statement on the passing of Queen Elizabeth II
- Press Release
- 26 October 2023
"My life depended on painting." Meet Muyambo Marcel Chishimba
Muyambo Marcel Chishimba is a Congolese refugee resettled by the International Rescue Committee (IRC) in New Jersey, The United States. For three decades, Chishimba worked at his art before he was forced to flee his war-torn country in 1991.
- Article
- 26 October 2023
Lena Headey reunites with Marwa, a Syrian refugee in Germany
Game of Thrones actor and champion for refugees, Lena Headey, recently visited Germany with the International Rescue Committee. On her trip with us, Lena reunited with Marwa, a Syrian mother she met in a refugee settlement in Greece in 2016. Read HBO's interview with Lena about her trip.
- Video
- 26 October 2023
Scaling Economic Opportunities for Refugee Women: Understanding and Overcoming Obstacles to Women’s Economic Empowerment in Germany, Niger, & Kenya
This report explores how displaced women themselves define economic empowerment and its benefits, and their perception of the challenges that they face in participating in the labour market, based on qualitative research in Niger, Germany and Kenya.
- Report
- 28 October 2020