Site search | The IRC

219 Results Showing results 21-30

Why is Yemen the world's worst humanitarian crisis?
The war in Yemen is contributing to what the U.N. says could become "the worst famine in the world in 100 years." 22 million people are in need of aid.
- Article
- July 1, 2022
IRC records 265% rise in nutrition cases as risk of catastrophic famine in Somalia increases
- Press Release
- August 2, 2022
Rising food insecurity pushing people into famine conditions in South Sudan, warns IRC
- Press Release
- June 22, 2022
Crisis in Somalia: Catastrophic hunger amid drought and conflict
Somalia now ranks at the top of the International Rescue Committee’s Emergency Watchlist. Here are five reasons why the country could face the world’s worst crisis in 2023.
- Article
- October 20, 2023
IRC Client in Ukraine: “This crisis has the potential to lead to famine worldwide”
- Press Release
- September 13, 2023
Joint statement by David Miliband and Somalia's Special Envoy for Drought Response, Abdirahman Abdishakur, as famine declaration looms in Somalia
- Press Release
- September 19, 2022
Women and girls exploited in exchange for money to buy food
Drought in northern Kenya has left some 2.6 million people struggling to find enough to eat. Women and girls in Turkana County are being exploited in exchange for money to buy food. The International Rescue Committee is seeing an increase in violence against women, early and forced marriage, and women and girls engaging in transactional sex in order to procure food for their families as the region is gripped by near-famine.
- Video
- June 27, 2022
Experts declare ‘famine like conditions’ for almost 17,000 people in Yemen, warns IRC
- Press Release
- June 22, 2022
IRC warns: 3 million face life-threatening hunger without urgent funding as unprecedented famine threatens East Africa
- Press Release
- August 2, 2022
As extreme drought displaces 1 million people in Somalia, IRC warns famine declaration will be too late for millions
- Press Release
- August 12, 2022