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Be a Firefighter In Our Flammable World Commencement Address By RT HON David Miliband President and CEO, International Rescue Committee Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies
- Press Release
- May 22, 2024
The safety of home
Over 70 million refugees and displaced people are at risk of a crisis level the COVID-19 pandemic has not yet seen. We can stay home and still come together to make a difference. Please donate.
- Video
- June 27, 2022
African nations struggle for independence
Armed with a new, global mandate, the IRC came to the aid of a continent struggling to transition to independence.
- Article
- July 27, 2023
The Lost Boys of Sudan
Over 30 years ago, Sudan’s civil war uprooted 20,000 Sudanese children. They were known as the Lost Boys.
- Article
- April 15, 2025
Sierra Leone
The International Rescue Committee provides vital support to Sierra Leoneans recovering from civil war, the Ebola epidemic, the Covid-19 pandemic and the global impacts of the war in Ukraine.
- Country
Uganda
The International Rescue Committee provides vital support to Ugandans rebuilding their lives from decades of war and refugees seeking safety from ongoing conflicts in neighboring countries such as South Sudan, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Sudan and Somalia.
- Country
Serbia
The International Rescue Committee provides vital support to refugees in Serbia who are fleeing war and unable to continue their journey to safety. Many are trying to reunite with relatives in western and northern Europe. And hundreds are children sent alone by parents who desperately desire a safer, better life for them.
- Country
Building a COVID-19 treatment center in the world's largest refugee camp
Join the the IRC's Bangladesh country director at the site of a coronavirus isolation unit and treatment center the IRC is building in Cox's Bazar, where we will care for COVID-19 patients.
- Video
- June 27, 2022
Live updates: Go inside the IRC’s response to COVID-19
What does it look like to protect the world’s most vulnerable from the novel coronavirus? Go inside IRC coronavirus preparedness and response programs, launched in over 40 countries.
- Article
- June 27, 2022
COVID-19 in humanitarian crises: a double emergency
The IRC finds conflict-affected and fragile countries face not only the direct health impacts of COVID-19 but also secondary havoc to already fragile humanitarian, economic, security and political environments.
- Report
- April 9, 2020