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One refugee's road to success in America
24-year-old Farhad from Afghanistan has a job, goes to college and is on his way to becoming a dental assistant. None of this would be possible without a car.
- Video
- June 27, 2022
Migrants, asylum seekers, refugees and immigrants: What’s the difference?
What is a refugee? Who is an immigrant? Get the facts.
- Article
- August 19, 2024
Syrian women refugees in Jordan: opportunity in the gig economy?
Many Syrian refugee women want to work but face hurdles. The gig economy, with protections for workers, could help change that.
- Report
- September 13, 2017
Morena Baccarin's eyewitness account of Venezuela's refugee crisis
IRC Voice Morena Baccarin recently traveled to Colombia to meet Venezuelan refugees trying to build new lives far from the violence and economic chaos at home.
- Article
- June 27, 2022
Solving the refugee employment problem in Jordan: A survey of Syrian refugees
In Jordan, there are an estimated 1.2 million Syrian refugees, the vast majority of which are unemployed. To address this crisis, the Jordan Compact, a new partnership between the international community and Government of Jordan that provides a pathway to economic opportunity for both refugees and Jordanians, was crafted.
- Report
- April 13, 2017
Refugee compacts
A compact agreement is an innovative model for bringing together donors, development and humanitarian agencies, the private sector, and civil society under host-country leadership to achieve sustainable outcomes for refugees and host communities. We offer three key principles and 10 recommendations for policymakers to build effective compacts for refugee-hosting nations.
- Report
- April 18, 2017
Finding the courage to continue on in Greece's refugee camps
Along with hundreds of other refugees, Audrey, Baimba and Hassan have received mental health support from the IRC while living in Greece’s overcrowded camps.
- Video
- June 27, 2022
Lena Headey reunites with Marwa, a Syrian refugee in Germany
Game of Thrones actor and champion for refugees, Lena Headey, recently visited Germany with the International Rescue Committee. On her trip with us, Lena reunited with Marwa, a Syrian mother she met in a refugee settlement in Greece in 2016. Read HBO's interview with Lena about her trip.
- Video
- June 27, 2022
Modernizing The U.S. Refugee Response Overseas
Modernizing The U.S. Refugee Response Overseas
- Report
- September 25, 2020
Refugees in Europe: A crisis far from over
Up to 300,000 refugees and migrants from Syria, Afghanistan and other war-torn lands have fled to Europe this year, and most have landed on Greece’s eastern islands. Aid workers with the International Rescue Committee have been providing critical aid and services on Lesbos which has struggled to cope with the massive influx of up to 3,000 refugees arriving daily.
- Video
- September 15, 2015