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Live updates: Go inside the IRC’s response to COVID-19
What does it look like to protect the world’s most vulnerable from the novel coronavirus? Go inside IRC coronavirus preparedness and response programs, launched in over 40 countries.
- Article
- June 27, 2022
Is it legal to cross the U.S. border to seek asylum?
People arriving at the U.S. border have the legal right to request asylum without being criminalized, turned back or separated from their children.
- Article
- November 1, 2024
Peru
The International Rescue Committee is on the ground in Peru providing support to Venezuelans as they try to rebuild their lives as well as members of host communities also in need.
- Country
IRC President and CEO David Miliband testifies before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, alongside UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador Ben Stiller, on the grave humanitarian impact of eight years of war in Syria and the path ahead for the crisis
- Press Release
- June 22, 2022
David Miliband: The refugee crisis is a test of our character
Sixty-five million people were displaced from their homes by conflict and disaster in 2016. That's 24 people every minute. It's not just a crisis; it's a test of who we are and what we stand for, says David Miliband — and each of us has a personal responsibility to help solve it. In this TED talk, Miliband gives us specific, tangible ways to help refugees and turn empathy and altruism into action.
- Video
- June 27, 2022
Inside the 2024 Emergency Watchlist
Responding to humanitarian crises: The myths, the facts and the solutions.
- Emergency Watchlist 2024
Girls EAGER to Learn
The power of education shines through in Sierra Leone with the implementation of the Every Adolescent Girl Empowered and Resilient (EAGER) program. This program has created new and life-changing learning opportunities for 27,322 out-of-school girls ages 13-19 across 10 districts of Sierra Leone.