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

In mid July, I returned from Venezuela, where I was deployed as part of the IRC's emergency response team, supporting communications and media efforts. We had just marked three weeks since the ...

Basma shares her reflections from her recent trip to visit IRC programs in Yemen, where funding cuts have had a devastating impact on communities and the programs they rely on.

Bogota, Colombia, August 10, 2026 — A 7.4 magnitude earthquake struck western Colombia earlier today, leaving at least 110 people dead and nearly 100 injured. International Rescue Committee (IRC) ...

Can you guess these countries and regions around the world by their outlines on a map? Use your geographical expertise to reveal the locations highlighted and learn important things you should know ...

This training is designed to assist community organisations, charities and others supporting refugee children and youth in the UK. Crisis and conflict have direct and profound effects on one's ...

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6.3 million people in need of humanitarian assistance 2.1 million people are internally displaced 46 locations under siege of nonstate armed groups 40% of people live below the poverty line Support ...

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 ...

NY, New York, October 29, 2025 — The IRC warns today that hundreds of thousands of people are in grave danger in and around El Fasher. Despite reports of large numbers of families attempting to flee ...

New York, NY, May 6, 2026 — As humanitarian funding contracts and scrutiny of aid spending intensifies, the International Rescue Committee (IRC) is doubling down on a simple but underutilized truth: ...

Heightened conflict and climate shocks are increasing humanitarian needs in Somalia as communities work to recover from the country’s most severe drought in four decades, which has reduced food ...