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Pakistan's forgotten crisis Islamabad and Peshawar, Pakistan ...
IRC aids Sumatra earthquake survivors 07 Oct 2009 The International Rescue Committe...
CAR: A Deepening Crisis by Peter Biro 14 Sep...
IRC Introduces Displaced Pakistanis to Fuel-efficient Cooking Peter Biro ...
Pakistan: IRC Repairs Schools that Housed the Displaced Peter Biro ...
14 Sep 2009 Read the article published in the NYT about the struggle of Iraqi refugees in the US. Watch video with highlights from the Terra...
IRC Remembers Ted Kennedy 26 Aug 2009 The International Rescue Committee expresse...
IRC Helps Pakistanis Returning Home 31 Aug 2009 The International Rescue Committe...
The International Rescue Committee is launching a program that will deliver lifesaving emergency relief to over 200 conflict-affected villages in northwestern Pakistan.
21 Aug 2009 At least 20 people are confirmed dead in flash floods caused by monsoon rains in the districts of Mardan and Swabi in northweste...
by Peter Biro 21 Aug 2009 - As Russian tanks rolled into the village of Aradeti on ...
21 Aug 2009 07 Aug 2009 - Even as thousands of displaced Pakistani families head home to the Swat district, thousands more are still fleeing...
Even as thousands of displaced Pakistani families head home to the Swat district, thousands more are still fleeing violence elsewhere in the country’s volatile northwest, according to IRC witnesses...
A year ago this week, on August 7, 2008, simmering tensions between Georgia and Russia erupted into full-scale war after Georgian troops mounted an attack on separatist forces in the enclave of Sou...
27 Jul 2009 The IRC has launched a two-year program in Jordan that will train local aid workers to respond to violence against women, predom...
The United Nations Security Council should live up to its pledge to prevent and punish rape in conflict by using this week’s debate on resolution 1820 to develop a concrete action plan to carry it ...
Nine international aid agencies, including the International Rescue Committee, have highlighted the “urgent need for separation between humanitarian and political efforts in Somalia” in a letter to...
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19 May 2009 As fighting between the Pakistani army and Taliban militants intensifies in the Swat Valley, hundreds of thousands of people are...
20 May 2009 As Somalia faces its worst drought in a decade, the International Rescue Committee (IRC) is stepping up efforts to provide more ...
22 May 2009 As the number of people displaced by fighting in Pakistan's North West Frontier Province continues to grow, the IRC reports that...
Islamabad, PAKISTAN 29 May 2009 Hundreds of thousands of desperate people are still...
29 May 2009 As part of its programs to assist Pakistanis displaced by the current fighting, the International Rescue Committee has launched ...
12 Jun 2009 A new survey commissioned by the IRC and the Association of Volunteers in International Service (AVSI), an Italian-based nongove...
16 Jun 2009 The U.S. Refugee Admissions Program is outdated and under-funded and is resettling Iraqi refugees into poverty rather than helpi...
26 Jun 2009 An assessment by the International Rescue Committee of uprooted Pakistanis living outside the camp system in Pakistan’s North-We...
26 Jun 2009 Hajer is a 38-year-old Iraqi refugee and a single mother of three children, ages 16, 12 and 4. Her husband was killed after the ...
DADAAB, KENYA 01 Jul 2009 The International Rescue Committee is launching an emerge...
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The International Rescue Committee is launching an emergency measles vaccination campaign targeting thousands of refugee children in Hagadera camp to contain an outbreak of the disease at the massi...
Hajer is a 38-year-old Iraqi refugee and a single mother of three children, ages 16, 12 and 4. Her husband was killed after the U.S. invasion of Iraq. Hajer arrived in Phoenix, Arizona, on May 28, ...
A new survey commissioned by the IRC and the Association of Volunteers in International Service (AVSI), an Italian-based nongovernmental development organization, shows that an alarming number of c...
As part of its programs to assist Pakistanis displaced by the current fighting, the IRC has launched a project to address the urgent need for sanitation and cooking fuel on the part of 20,000 peopl...
Hundreds of thousands of desperate people are still fleeing violence every day, as fighting continues in Pakistan’s North-West Frontier Province. Meanwhile, the Pakistani army has expanded its offe...
After more than 28 years of providing vital humanitarian assistance in northern Sudan, the International Rescue Committee (IRC) has officially closed out its activities in the wake of mass aid agen...
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As Somalia faces its worst drought in a decade, the International Rescue Committee (IRC) is stepping up efforts to provide more and cleaner water to tens of thousands of Somalis in affected communi...
As fighting between the Pakistani army and Taliban militants intensifies in the Swat Valley, hundreds of thousands of people are still trapped in the combat zone. The International Rescue Committee...
As fighting between the Pakistani army and Taliban militants intensifies in the Swat Valley and other volatile areas of north-western Pakistan, the IRC is responding to the urgent humanitarian need...
Amid growing fears of a humanitarian catastrophe, the IRC is preparing to bring aid to thousands of displaced Tamils in camps in northern Sri Lanka. Some 150,000 people have fled the recent flare-u...
As the latest piracy attacks off the coast of Somalia grab headlines and international donors meet in Brussels to discuss the security situation, attention and funding must not be diverted from the...
Six aid agencies today urged the Obama administration to consider humanitarian needs in its policy review on Somalia. As the latest piracy attacks off the coast of Somalia capture the world's atten...
As dawn breaks, the first patients arrive at the IRC-run clinic in the Site One refugee camp near the town of Mae Hong Son on the Thai-Burma border. People line the hallway waiting to be examined a...
The International Rescue Committee welcomes the cessation of military activity in Chechnya but remains concerned about ongoing humanitarian needs in the region.
Fazl Ullah Hazrat Gul, an IRC aid worker, was killed on April 2 in a nighttime air bombardment of a village in the Baraki Barak district of Logar Province, IRC staff in the area reported. The attac...
The International Rescue Committee and 15 other relief organizations operating in Afghanistan have sent a letter to delegates urging that NATO troops clearly identify themselves in Afghanistan and ...
International Rescue Committee health, water and other lifesaving programs in Darfur, North and East Sudan are gradually being taken over by other aid groups – although at drastically reduced level...
The IRC in Thailand has introduced a new method to help abused refugee women bring their attackers to justice: forensic photography. Six female refugees at the International Rescue Committee’s dome...
The mass expulsion of humanitarian aid organizations from Darfur is having immediate and alarming consequences, with thousands of people already being denied critical health services.
The International Rescue Committee says the Government of Sudan has ordered the closure of its humanitarian aid programs in Darfur as well as North and East Sudan – a decision that puts at risk the...
As the death toll from Zimbabwe’s cholera outbreak continues to climb, the International Rescue Committee is ramping up its emergency programs to combat the epidemic.
The International Rescue Committee says civilians in eastern Congo’s North Kivu province continue to endure chaos, displacement and suffering – with tens of thousands of uprooted people in dire nee...
The International Rescue Committee says civilians in eastern Congo’s North Kivu province continue to endure chaos, displacement and suffering – with tens of thousands of uprooted people in dire nee...
VIP convoys come and go in east Congo's trouble spots, but the UN must do more to solve the conflict
VIP convoys come and go in east Congo's trouble spots, but the UN must do more to solve the conflict
The International Rescue Committee praised the increase in international funding included in the outline of the federal budget released today by the Obama administration.
The International Rescue Committee praised the increase in international funding included in the outline of the federal budget released today by the Obama administration.
Inside the small, crowded hut which serves as the village school, nine-year-old Shameem listens attentively with her classmates. Today's lesson is math and Bas Pari, the 19-yearold teacher, is expl...
Inside the small, crowded hut which serves as the village school, nine-year-old Shameem listens attentively with her classmates. Today's lesson is math and Bas Pari, the 19-yearold teacher, is expl...
Inside the small, crowded hut which serves as the village school, nine-year-old Shameem listens attentively with her classmates. Today's lesson is math and Bas Pari, the 19-yearold teacher, is expl...
Tonight, instead of heading home, the residents of Mucwini camp are gathering in front of the health center to watch a movie. They're here to see an educational video produced by the International ...
Tonight, instead of heading home, the residents of Mucwini camp are gathering in front of the health center to watch a movie. They're here to see an educational video produced by the International ...
The IRC has ended its program in Indonesia after eight years. During that time the IRC assisted thousands of people displaced by sectarian violence and the devastating 2004 tsunami. It also provide...
The IRC has ended its program in Indonesia after eight years. During that time the IRC assisted thousands of people displaced by sectarian violence and the devastating 2004 tsunami. It also provide...
The IRC has ended its program in Indonesia after eight years. During that time the IRC assisted thousands of people displaced by sectarian violence and the devastating 2004 tsunami. It also provide...
One confirmed case of cholera and 14 suspected cases have been reported in the Hagadera refugee camp in Dadaab, eastern Kenya – numbers that have the potential to spike as Somali refugees inundate ...
The IRC works with local communities to identify returning refugees, like Tamar, in need of special assistance and provides them with the services they may need. The assistance can take the form of...
The IRC works with local communities to identify returning refugees, like Tamar, in need of special assistance and provides them with the services they may need. The assistance can take the form of...
The IRC works with local communities to identify returning refugees, like Tamar, in need of special assistance and provides them with the services they may need. The assistance can take the form of...
Some time ago, the head of the United Nations refugee agency, Antonio Guterres, said of the Democratic Republic of Congo: "Nobody in the outside world feels threatened, and so the international com...
Some time ago, the head of the United Nations refugee agency, Antonio Guterres, said of the Democratic Republic of Congo: "Nobody in the outside world feels threatened, and so the international com...
Some time ago, the head of the United Nations refugee agency, Antonio Guterres, said of the Democratic Republic of Congo: "Nobody in the outside world feels threatened, and so the international com...
The International Rescue Committee has been working to resettle the members of Acrassicauda since last summer. Born out of a basement rehearsal space in Baghdad, Acrassicauda is one of the few Ira...
The International Rescue Committee has been working to resettle the members of Acrassicauda since last summer. Born out of a basement rehearsal space in Baghdad, Acrassicauda is one of the few Ira...
The International Rescue Committee has been working to resettle the members of Acrassicauda since last summer. Born out of a basement rehearsal space in Baghdad, Acrassicauda is one of the few Ira...
The International Rescue Committee is preparing a relief effort that will help Palestinians in war-ravaged Gaza gain access to much-needed water. Alan Manski, the IRC’s senior emergency coordinator...
The International Rescue Committee is preparing a relief effort that will help Palestinians in war-ravaged Gaza gain access to much-needed water. Alan Manski, the IRC’s senior emergency coordinator...
The International Rescue Committee is preparing a relief effort that will help Palestinians in war-ravaged Gaza gain access to much-needed water. Alan Manski, the IRC’s senior emergency coordinator...
An International Rescue Committee team in North Kivu province was able to carry out a delivery of critical supplies, after the launch of a new military offensive last week interrupted humanitarian ...
An International Rescue Committee team in North Kivu province was able to carry out a delivery of critical supplies, after the launch of a new military offensive last week interrupted humanitarian ...
An International Rescue Committee team in North Kivu province was able to carry out a delivery of critical supplies, after the launch of a new military offensive last week interrupted humanitarian ...
Intensified violence and the increased presence of armed groups in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s North Kivu Province are forcing interruptions in humanitarian aid deliveries and putting civili...
Intensified violence and the increased presence of armed groups in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s North Kivu Province are forcing interruptions in humanitarian aid deliveries and putting civili...
Intensified violence and the increased presence of armed groups in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s North Kivu Province are forcing interruptions in humanitarian aid deliveries and putting civili...
Gregory Acar’s ordeal began on the morning of March 23, 1989. Armed soldiers from the dreaded rebel group the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) stormed into his in northern Uganda and ordered everyone t...
As Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki announces a national emergency and declares that 10 million people don’t have enough food to eat, results of an International Rescue Committee survey show that an al...
The International Rescue Committee is contributing essential drugs to emergency interventions in the Kasai Occidental province of the Democratic Republic of Congo in response to an epidemic of Ebol...
The International Rescue Committee is launching aid efforts in Zimbabwe to help stem a major cholera epidemic and prevent the spread of other diseases which are ravaging communities across the coun...
The International Rescue Committee is working with partners to deliver urgently needed supplies to hospitals and other centers providing humanitarian aid to civilians in Gaza.
The International Rescue Committee joins the United Nations and others in the humanitarian aid community in calling on all parties in the Gaza crisis to adhere to international humanitarian law and...
The International Rescue Committee will launch a two-year project to improve health care services for mothers and young children in the remote Turkana District of northwest Kenya. The project speci...
The International Rescue Committee is distributing tools, seeds and equipment to local farmers, as well as providing agricultural training to roughly 4,500 residents in Kitgum and Lira districts. E...
Before last October, patients who needed urgent medical care in Wassit province often relied on family members to rush to Baghdad—over 100 miles away—to secure pints of precious donated blood. Now,...
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At a hearing in April, Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff was asked about an Iraqi Kurd who had served as an interpreter for Marines in Iraq for nearly four years but had been branded "a ...
This November, International Rescue Committee health teams undertook a week-long campaign to conduct vital eye surgeries for 89 people in Sherkole camp, a safe haven for Southern Sudanese refugees ...
he International Rescue Committee is saddened by the tragic killing of Seguin Tshisekedi during the night of the 11th of December.
Not On Our Watch, founded by Don Cheadle, George Clooney, Matt Damon, Brad Pitt, Jerry Weintraub and David Pressman, has awarded the International Rescue Committee $260,000 to support critical heal...
The Forbes 2009 Investment Guide gives the International Rescue Committee high marks for the efficiency of its programs and fundraising.
Responding to the increase in rape and other forms of violence against women in Goma, the International Rescue Committee collaborated with Congo's North Kivu Ministry of Health to train local docto...
One of the International Rescue Committee’s doctors in Kakuma refugee camp, northern Kenya, has been using the period of ‘16 Days of Activism against Gender Violence’ to educate refugee communities...
December 1 is World AIDS Day and IRC programs all over the world are marking the day with awareness-raising activities about preventing the spread of HIV and supporting people living with the disea...
The International Rescue Committee and other aid agencies said today they are concerned about the country's increasingly difficult operating environment. They issued this statement.
The “16 Days of Activism against Gender Violence” campaign gets underway today with activities at International Rescue Committee offices around the world.
Women and girls in eastern CongoÕs North Kivu province are once again suffering increasing levels of sexual violence amid renewed conflict, instability and widespread displacement of civilians. ...
The International Rescue Committee’s water and sanitation team has been carrying out cholera prevention and response in war-affected North Kivu, seeking to limit the spread of the disease in high p...
The International Rescue Committee's rapid response team was forced to call off distribution of firewood in Kibati camp north of Goma on Friday after gunfire nearby caused widespread fear among civ...
Today the IRC begins a distribution of one week’s supply of firewood to 15,000 families (75,000 people) in the Kibati IDP camp, close to the National Park region of North Kivu, an area which has se...
Since August 2008, International Rescue Committee teams have been providing vital medical care, including feeding programs for malnourished children and reproductive health services for women, to a...
The International Rescue Committee has stepped up its emergency response in the conflict-affected North Kivu region of the Democratic Republic of Congo, where recent fighting has left approximately...
In the Kiswahili language, the word tuungane means “moving forward together.” It’s an apt name for the International Rescue Committee’s expansive community-driven reconstruction program in eastern ...
In recent years, the Congolese government has made efforts toward the observation of women’s rights and the inclusion of women in the political process. Through the Tuungane reconstruction project ...
Rebel fighters loyal to Tutsi general Laurent Nkunda have fought their way to the gates of Goma, driving tens of thousands of civilians from their homes. Subsequent killings and lootings by Congole...
The International Rescue Committee (IRC)is scaling up emergency humanitarian response in the North Kivu province of eastern Democratic Republic of Congo after intensified violence displaced an esti...
Remote regions of Southern Sudan have long suffered catastrophically high infant mortality rates. Children under the age of five frequently die from common yet treatable diseases such as malaria, ...
The International Rescue Committee has today restarted its provision of emergency supplies to people displaced in the most recent round of violence in North Kivu, the Democratic Respublic of Congo’...
Renewed fighting in North Kivu has forced the International Rescue Committee to suspend its programs in the DR Congo's fractious eastern province.
The International Rescue Committee is gradually restarting humanitarian aid programs in Afghanistan that were halted following an August 13 attack on an IRC vehicle that killed four IRC aid workers...
The International Rescue Committee is distributing vital items such as blankets and cooking materials to help communities affected by severe flooding in the Gambella region of western Ethiopia. The...
The International Rescue Committee and 51 other aid organizations have expressed concern about the worsening humanitarian crisis in Somalia. The IRC is responding to the rapidly deteriorating situa...
As renewed combat in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo has led to a drastic deterioration in the humanitarian situation, International Rescue Committee teams are providing emergency assistance t...
The International Rescue Committee, which launched humanitarian aid programs in Darfur in early 2004, continues to provide vital health, water, sanitation and education services for more than 650,0...
Four months after Cyclone Nargis ravaged Myanmar’s Irrawaddy Delta, the International Rescue Committee is helping rebuild shattered infrastructure and restore health and water services.
The International Rescue Committee paid tribute today to Paul Newman, who died Sept. 26, in his Connecticut home at age 83. He was a generous supporter of the International Rescue Committee and th...
In a statement released yesterday, the International Rescue Committee and 27 other organizations asked the United Nations for support to continue working in Afghanistan amid deteriorating security ...
The International Rescue Committee says the current administration’s goal of granting sanctuary to only 17,000 Iraqi refugees in fiscal year 2009 is insufficient and disappointing. “We commend the ...
The International Rescue Committee says the current administration’s goal of granting sanctuary to only 17,000 Iraqi refugees in fiscal year 2009 is insufficient and disappointing. “We commend the ...
International Rescue Committee programs working in conflict-affected communities across Africa are marking the International Day of Peace (officially September 21) with activities promoting peace, ...
Two years after fleeing Iraq, Omar Latif finds it difficult to talk about his experience. “Words can’t describe what I went through,” he says, sitting in the living room of his new home in Phoenix,...
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It’s almost one year since the first case of Hepatitis E was reported in Kitgum District, northern Uganda – a disease that has since infected more than 7,100 people and killed at least 110. Despite...
Last winter, a team of Pakistani doctors working in the remote district of Dir in the far North West Frontier Province made a startling discovery: many of their patients had contracted a rare disea...
Nearly a month after heavy violence and destruction in the Georgia region displaced some 160,000 civilians, tens of thousands remain crammed into temporary shelters and many lack the most basic ser...
We write to once again draw your attention to the Iraqi humanitarian crisis and the urgent need for a comprehensive United States response to the humanitarian and protection needs of Iraq's extreme...
INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE SET TO BEGIN AID PROGRAMS FOR IRAQI REFUGEES IN SYRIA The International Rescue Committee has received a green light from the Government of Syria to launch humanitaria...
For eight years, Salaymatu Bah sons were dead, that they'd been killed in Sierra Leone during that country's civil war. Bah, who was raised a Muslim, had been forced to split from her children and ...
Eight months after a peace agreement between the government and rebel groups raised hopes for an end to the long-running war in the Congo, violence continues to plague eastern Congo, said the newly...
This week, the International Rescue Committee increased its efforts to assist the thousands of people displaced by the conflict in Georgia. The IRC’s emergency response team in the Georgian capital...
Varian spends 3 months touring Germany to learn first-hand the social, political and economic developments as part of his new role as editor of the Living Age
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