Ensure that people are safe in their homes and receive support when they experience harm
How we get there:
- Supporting women and girls in having healthy and safe relationships, and working with men to change violent behavior and stop intimate partner violence;
- Ensuring children are not physically, sexually, or psychologically abused, or neglected or exploited, within their homes.
Ensure that students are safe in their schools and receive support when they experience harm
How we get there:
- Making classrooms safe spaces for healing and learning for both girls and boys;
- Supporting teacher well-being, and incorporating social and emotional learning into school curricula to enhance student well-being in the short and long term.
Ensure that people are safe in their work places and receive support when they experience harm
How we get there:
- Ensuring women, girls, men and boys are safe from violence at work;
- Developing knowledge and skills of employers and employees to maintain a safe physical workplace.
In 2015, the International Rescue Committee and our partners helped:
36,800+
Mustafa Hassan and the 50 members of his child-protection team in Jordan do the painstaking detective work necessary to help Syrian children separated from their families reunite with relatives.
vulnerable children with counselling, care and support and trained 9,525 child protection workers.
Read his story.24,555
We released the results of groundbreaking research on preventing violence against children by focusing on the most important people in their lives: their caregivers.
families with parenting support and techniques they can use to communicate and problem-solve effectively with their children.
Read the report.11,400+
The IRC offers uprooted Iraqi women and girls like Basma with counselling, therapeutic group activities, legal support and other assistance.
survivors of gender based violence with counselling and health, social and legal services.
Read their story.
