Countries are removing thousands of refugees to third countries like Mexico, Albania and the DRC—raising urgent humanitarian ...

Thank you for your interest in welcoming refugees to your community. By volunteering with the IRC in Sacramento, CA, you use your skills to help people who have fled violence and persecution to ...

Brussels, Belgium, 25 March 2026 — Tomorrow (Thursday 26th March), the European Parliament is set to vote on whether to move forward with the Return Regulation - new rules which the International ...

IRC research highlights that cash-based anticipatory action can help recover from, and build resilience to, climate disasters in fragile settings affected by both conflict and climate change With ...

Brussels, Belgium, 9 March 2026 — This evening, Members of the European Parliament's Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (LIBE) voted in favour of a controversial new bill to scale ...

For the third year in a row, Sudan tragically tops the International Rescue Committee’s (IRC) Emergency Watchlist as the country most at risk of new or worsening humanitarian crises. Sudan’s collapse ...

The Emergency Watchlist is the IRC’s assessment of the 20 countries at greatest risk of new humanitarian emergencies each year. It is based on an analytically rigorous process that deploys 65 ...

For more than a decade, the International Rescue Committee’s (IRC) annual Emergency Watchlist has accurately predicted 85-95 percent of the countries most likely to face a worsening humanitarian ...

The IRC's 2025 Emergency Watchlist highlights the top 10 global crises, focusing on countries like Sudan, Syria, and Myanmar, where conflict, climate change, and economic instability exacerbate ...

Caracas, Venezuela, June 25, 2026 — Two powerful earthquakes have killed at least 164 people and injured nearly 1,000 across Venezuela, leaving thousands more in urgent need of emergency assistance.

Each year, the International Rescue Committee releases a list of the 20 humanitarian crises expected to deteriorate the most over the next year. For the past decade, this report has helped us ...

Each year, the International Rescue Committee analyzes 190 countries and territories to identify the countries at greatest risk of experiencing a new or worsening humanitarian crisis in the coming ...