From emergency response through post-conflict development work, in a great variety of roles around the world, the International Rescue Committee's 8,000-plus staff is a force for humanity and hope. If you're skilled and passionate, we'd like to add your energy to ours.

The International Rescue Committee (IRC) Emergency Watchlist 2022 is a call to action for global leaders and the general public.

IRC initiates programs in response to the Middle East Crisis

Inspired by her mother’s work as an activist for women’s rights in Brazil, Morena Baccarin is a strong advocate for the protection and empowerment of women and girls. She speaks to BUILD about her experience as an IRC Voice visiting the International Rescue Committee's emergency response supporting Venezuelan refugees in Colombia. 

The International Rescue Committee has been working in Yemen since 2012. We are one of the largest non-governmental health providers in Yemen, supporting primary health facilities, emergency obstetric and newborn care centers, and hundreds of health workers.

The IRC finds conflict-affected and fragile countries face not only the direct health impacts of COVID-19 but also secondary havoc to already fragile humanitarian, economic, security and political environments.

This paper offers a set of recommendations for donors and UN agency partners, such as prioritizing funding to front-line NGO implementers in fragile contexts, normalizing flexible and multiyear funding, and improving transparency and reporting to public platforms.

Since 2014, economic upheaval and political turmoil in Venezuela have caused over 3 million people to flee the country, and this number is likely to rise as the crisis intensifies.

The report describes a mixed-methods case study conducted by the IRC and UNICEF of the impact of acute emergency on iCCM programming in Payinjiar County, South Sudan.

COVID-19 continues to shape the lives of refugees living in Salt Lake County, leading to a staff-wide effort to gather and deliver basic necessities to families in need.