Eight-year-old twin sisters from Afghanistan recount harrowing tales of the fearful journey they endured as they made their escape to Europe. They are just two of the more than one million refugees from countries experiencing relentless conflicts who have fled to Europe for safety and a new start. "The smugglers had sticks and they beat us, and wouldn’t let us stop even for five minutes," one of the girls said.

Join our call to make world leaders accountable for real change for refugees. One year ago, heartbreaking photographs of 3-year-old Syrian refugee Alan Kurdi stranded on a Turkish beach brought the world’s attention to the largest migration of people fleeing conflict since World War II. Alan Kurdi’s name still resonates with all of us. The sense of loss and compassion we felt at his death was real. But the politics is stuck.

Nine-year-old Maher discovered his love for photography after the IRC gave him a camera to photograph his friends.

For the first time, the IRC has sponsored a boy's soccer team in Jordan's Zaatari refugee camp. The team reached the semifinal round of the Zaatari World Cup tournament. This is their story.

Over 600,000 Syrian refugees are currently in Jordan, 80% of whom live in urban areas among Jordanian neighbors.  In February the International Rescue Committee organized a two-week social-therapy workshop at our women's center in the city of Irbid that brought together Syrian refugee teenagers and their Jordanian counterparts.

Meet Mustafa Hassan, an International Rescue Committee aid worker named by Time magazine as one of the world’s 100 most influential people for his tireless efforts to protect the youngest victims of Syria’s civil war. Read Mustafa's story

On a return visit to the Greek island of Lesbos, which he first visited in November 2015, Mandy Patinkin met with refugees stranded at Kara Tepe who are caught in a desperate and lengthy limbo as they wait to know the fate of their asylum claims. Learn more about refugees in Europe.

As the war in Syria enters its seventh year, students from the Sage International School in Boise wrote uplifting letters to Syrian children half a world away. Read all the letters.

An aspiring artist, Farhad Nouri has many hopes and dreams, but most of all, he wants a place he can call home, a place to feel welcomed.

Education isn't a luxury—it's a vital lifeline. More than half of Syrian children in Lebanon don’t attend school. International Rescue Committee president & CEO sees the IRC's education programs in Lebanon first-hand.