This Protection Needs Overview documents findings from protection monitoring efforts conducted between April and September 2023 in the Iraqi governorates of Anbar, Ninewa, and Kirkuk. This report details protection concerns of communities experiencing displacement, refugees and asylum seekers, those who have returned to their areas of origin, and host communities nearly six years after the defeat of the ISIS group in Iraq and is the follow on to the Protection Needs Overview: October 2022-March 2023. 511 household-level surveys, 204 key informant interviews, and 108 focus group discussions with 756 individuals contributed to the findings in this report.

This Protection Needs Overview documents findings from protection monitoring efforts conducted between April and September 2023 in the Iraqi governorates of Anbar, Ninewa, and Kirkuk. This report details protection concerns of communities experiencing displacement, refugees and asylum seekers, those who have returned to their areas of origin, and host communities nearly six years after the defeat of the ISIS group in Iraq and is the follow on to the Protection Needs Overview: October 2022-March 2023. 511 household-level surveys, 204 key informant interviews, and 108 focus group discussions with 756 individuals contributed to the findings in this report.

Mass tragedies happen to people one by one. In Somalia, hundreds of thousands of people have been displaced from drought-stricken villages, and 3 million urgently need food and help making ends meet as the crisis worsens. The U.S. threat to cut foreign aid could not come at a worse time. Learn more and help.

The facts on climate change are absolutely clear. With over 16 million people displaced as a result of climate-related factors in 2018 alone, this number continues to rise. David Miliband recalls stories from his travels to the Sahel region of Africa, where the IRC is helping refugees affected by the climate crisis. Watch to learn more.

Maryanrun is a community health worker and refugee who is helping the International Rescue Committee save children's lives in Mogadishu, Somalia.

The International Rescue Committee (IRC) in partnership with Qatar Charity has launched a new integrated humanitarian response service program for vulnerable communities in the Blue Nile State of Sudan. The program will run for six months, serving over 8,000 hard-to-reach refugee, host, and internally displaced communities in Wad al Mahi and Ar Rusayris localities. It aims to expand their access to improved health, water, hygiene and sanitation services

The coronavirus struck at a time when more people around the world are displaced by war and crisis than ever before. They, along with people living in conflict zones, will be among the hardest hit by the pandemic.  We asked refugees and frontline International Rescue Committee staff what gives them hope as the world confronts COVID-19. Watch their moving responses. 

Gender Based Violence is a global epidemic. The IRC estimates that 14 million refugees and displaced women and girls were subjected to sexual violence in 2019. However less than 0.2% of all global humanitarian funding between 2016-2018 was allocated to GBV prevention and response, and women and girls are often invisible in country's action plans for the Sustainable Development Goals. This report highlights some of the links between GBV and key SDGs to show where GBV prevention and response needs to be integrated across sectors to address the double disadvantage faced by women and girls in crisis.

We took to the streets of New York and Washington D.C. to find out what Americans know about the crisis in Yemen.

At 10 years old, Heba has known nothing but war in Syria. Three years ago, pain in her leg started making it difficult for her to walk, but attacks on hospitals prevented her from getting the medical attention she needed—until she received care from the IRC and our partners.