The International Rescue Committee in Salt Lake City’s education team partnered with Milad Mozari, an assistant professor at the University of Utah’s College of Architecture & Planning, to collaborate on a virtual reality project for refugee and new American youth attending school in the United States.

The world is celebrating the extraordinary rescue of the Wild Boars soccer team from a flooded cave network in the Mai Sai district of Thailand, but the incident has also shined a spotlight on a humanitarian crisis on the Thailand-Myanmar border that has been overlooked since the start of military rule in Myanmar in the 1960s.

Our Immigration Department strives to ensure equal protection under the law and civic integration of refugees and immigrants, as aspiring new Americans, by assisting them to achieve U.S. citizenship.

By making a recurring monthly donation, you make a lasting commitment to the delivery of safety to refugees, allowing them to build new lives in our community. Becoming a sustaining donor is a great way to help ensure the stability and effectiveness of local IRC

The International Rescue Committee in New York (IRC in NY) hosted their second annual Ramadan celebration on June 18, 2016 for newly resettled refugees and asylees to have a place to break their fast with other clients.

Private donations contribute greatly to the success of the IRC's work. Although we receive state and federal funding for initial resettlement and employment services, the assistance we provide to refugee families beyond their first few months in the U.S. would not be possible without community support.

This report focuses on the needs of the 1.4 million people who have been displaced by violence inside South Sudan and the more than 455,000 refugees who have fled South Sudan for neighboring countries in 2014.