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Creating a Home for the Holidays during COVID-19
This winter join us in welcoming families home for the holidays.
- Announcement
- November 18, 2020
Hunger spreading across Syria amid COVID-19 and economic collapse
- Press Release
- June 22, 2022
Conflict, COVID-19 and climate change: a triple threat for refugees
The climate crisis and the pandemic are putting displaced families in conflict areas at further risk. Here are the top 5 countries most affected by these threats.
- Video
- June 27, 2022
First COVID-19 case confirmed in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh
The world’s largest refugee camp—in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh—saw its first confirmed case of the coronavirus, exposing already extremely vulnerable Rohingya refugees and local Bangladeshis to the deadly virus.
- Video
- June 27, 2022
Pakistan
The International Rescue Committee provides vital support to people in Pakistan affected by floods and other natural disasters, poverty and the COVID-19 pandemic.
- Country
As COVID-19 is confirmed in Yemen, the IRC calls for improved aid delivery
- Press Release
- June 22, 2022
Jean Marie: Refugee. Youth Advocate. Community Leader.
Jean Marie Ishimwe is a 23-year-old youth advocate in Nairobi, Kenya. He is also a refugee from Rwanda. Today, he is using his coordination and motivational skills to mobilize young people to hand out food, masks and information about the COVID-19 pandemic.
- Video
- June 27, 2022
Refugee families face a cold winter
In places like Syria and Lebanon, displaced families are experiencing frigid winter weather on top of what they are already facing — war, hunger and COVID-19.
- Topic
Escalating violence in Libya jeopardises COVID-19 response, warns IRC
- Press Release
- June 22, 2022
Providing health care in refugee camps during COVID-19
A Syrian refugee father and son explain what the IRC's services have meant to them.
- Video
- April 13, 2022