International Rescue Committee president David Miliband recently visited Yemen, where he heard harrowing stories of aid workers being evacuated from the city of Hodeidah. He also saw the dire impacts of malnutrition and a dearth of health supplies in a country the United Nations says is threatened by the worst famine in 100 years.

This month, the International Rescue Committee's crisis news roundup looks at record-low refugee admissions in the U.S., the thousands of people fleeing Venezuela, and the difficulties stopping the spread of Ebola in the Democratic Republic Congo.

Yousra has cancer in her left eye and is trapped by war in Yemen. While she is being treated at an IRC-supported clinic for malnutrition, there are no doctors left who can treat her cancer. Watch and share her story.

Idlib is the only part of Syria still controlled by opposition groups after seven years of war. Many people here have fled other areas of the country and are now living in desperate conditions. If the fighting starts again, they could face the worst humanitarian crisis of the conflict. Watch and share.

Conditions inside Venezuela continue to deteriorate—a million Venezuelans have now sought refuge in Colombia, and this number could double in the next six months. Many are being forced to undertake desperate measures, including sex work, to earn money to survive.

This month, the International Rescue Committee's crisis news roundup looks at the looming famine threatening millions in war-torn Yemen, an asylum ban that could harm families in the caravan fleeing Central America, and the reasons why now is not the right time to return Rohingya refugees to Myanmar. 

1 in 7 girls in the developing world will be married before the age of 15. In the province of North Kivu in the Democratic Republic of Congo, hundreds of girls are abducted by armed groups and forced to become child brides every year. Here are the stories of four girls who were able to escape their captors. Read more about their story and how the International Rescue Committee helps. 

Marathoners, bakers, teachers—refugees are all of those things and so much more. But human beings above all. At the IRC, we never, ever give up on refugees. Watch and share if you, too, #StandWithRefugees.

After five years in prison for speaking out against his government and less than a year safe in the U.S., this elite athlete—and refugee— just ran his first New York City Marathon.

In the weeks after the December 2004 tsunami, survivors in devastated Aceh province, Indonesia, who were made homeless by the waves, found themselves in often crowded living conditions that put them at an increased risk for many kinds of infectious disease. The IRC responded immediately with emergency medical care and water and sanitation programs that dramatically reduced the potential for mass outbreaks.