New York, NY, April 21, 2025 — This week marks ninety days since a Trump administration executive order indefinitely paused refugee resettlement. The last refugee families to arrive through the U.S.

New York, NY, June 12, 2025 — Today’s UN figures confirm a continued record high: over 122 million people are forcibly displaced worldwide — more than the populations of Spain and the United Kingdom ...

Refugees bring many skills and talents to their communities—and to the playing fields of football, the most popular sport in the world. At both club and national level, refugee footballers have left ...

Shortly after a devastating earthquake and tsunami struck Japan on March 11, 2011, the International Rescue Committee responded by providing technical and financial support to three Japanese aid ...

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

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

The International Rescue Committee provides opportunities for refugees, asylees, victims of human trafficking, survivors of torture, and other immigrants to thrive in America. Each year, thousands of ...

Each year, the U.S. president sets a refugee cap that determines how many refugees can be resettled. The Trump administration initially set a record-low cap for fiscal year 2026, before creating ...

On Jan. 12, 2010, a massive 7.0 earthquake struck Haiti about 10 miles southwest of the capital, Port-au-Prince, killing 300,000 people and leaving 2.3 million homeless without clean water or food.

Over 72,000 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza, according to OCHA, which bases its figures on the Gaza Ministry of Health statistics, and more than 173,000 have been injured since October 7, 2023.