This report evaluates the “Opportunities for Equitable Access to Quality Basic Education” (OPEQ) program aimed at enhancing learning opportunities, academic attainment and social-emotional wellbeing for more than 480,000 girls and boys in three eastern provinces of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).

Read an open letter signed by Piper Perabo, Mandy Patinkin, Kathryn Grody, Morena Baccarin and many others calling on the president to rescind a proposed asylum ban.

In early June, the IRC health team supported a group of 7th and 8th grade girls to participate along 100 other teams in a 5k race put on by Girls on the Run!

At the first annual Beacons of Hope Gala this past June, the IRC in Silver Spring recognized individuals and organizations who champion the integration of refugees in Maryland. Learn more about this year’s award recipients.

Thanks to funds provided by IRC donors in response to February's emergency appeal, the IRC in Sacramento is expanding economic empowerment workshops for women this summer. Meet two of the participants.

An intense war in Ukraine has created mass displacement and is fueling a humanitarian crisis unlike any in Europe since World War II.

What is a refugee? Who is an immigrant? Get the facts.

In the IRC’s new women’s economic empowerment program, low-income immigrant women learn to manage their families’ resources and navigate the American financial system.