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Hope Behind the Headlines
Watch our 2022 Global Virtual Event to get an exclusive look at the IRC's work. Featuring Rami Malek, Yo-Yo Ma, Ebony Obsidian, Mandy Patinkin, Yola, and IRC staff and clients from across the globe.
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- July 28, 2022
Has a refugee ever won an Oscar?
Learn more about the life of Oscar-winner Ke Huy Quan, as well as past Oscar nominees and winners who were forcibly displaced.
- Article
- April 4, 2024
8 refugee activists and changemakers you need to know about
Meet refugee changemakers who are shaping policies, art, traditions, dreams and futures in ordinary—and extraordinary—ways.
- Article
- June 14, 2023
What is gender-based violence – and how do we prevent it?
In crisis, the risk of GBV increases, and so does our collective need to act to prevent GBV before it happens or respond to the needs of women and girls when it does.
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- September 3, 2024
A skateboarder from Kabul learns there is nothing she can't achieve
An instructor at a non-profit that teaches skateboarding to children, Belqisa’s dreams of pro competition were put on hold when she had to escape Afghanistan. Now she’s seizing a chance for a new start.
- Article
- July 1, 2022
Make Chef Noori's Afghan family recipe: Mantu potato skins
His family's "survival meal" of potato skins with vegetables now stars on the menu at former Afghan refugee Chef Noori's restaurant, The Mantu. Try the recipe.
- Article
- October 25, 2022
A family broken after the promise of refuge
This Iranian refugee family was approved for resettlement in Seattle on June 12, 2017, but because of the United States travel ban, the family's flights were canceled three times. While two family members were able to resettle to the U.S. this year with the support of the International Rescue Committee, the rest of their relatives remain in Turkey where they will restart the painstaking resettlement process from scratch.
- Video
- June 27, 2022