Through funding from the European Union (EU), the International Rescue Committee has been able to provide supplies and services to camp residents in Kachin state, located in northern Myanmar, to support residents — especially women and girls — in covering their basic needs, maintaining their health, and ensuring their well-being.

Lia Mocka is the Gender-Based Violence Specialist for the International Rescue Committee in Greece. Born in Albania, she moved to Greece when she was nine years old and andis a passionate feminist, working to ensure refugee women are protected and enabled to understand their rights.

Muyambo Marcel Chishimba is a Congolese refugee resettled by the International Rescue Committee (IRC) in New Jersey, The United States. For three decades, Chishimba worked at his art before he was forced to flee his war-torn country in 1991.

  The IRC's priorities at the Global Refugee Forum At the 2023 Global Refugee Forum, the International Rescue Committee is calling on the EU and its member states to: 1) Scale up refugee resettlement and other safe routes Commit to resettle at least 44,000 refugees in 2024, and make bold commitments for years to come in line with Europe’s true capacity for welcome. Expand and improve access to ot

New report by the International Rescue Committee (IRC) finds that fragile and conflict-affected countries face a double emergency: the arrival and impact of COVID-19, and the secondary humanitarian, economic and political havoc this outbreak will wreak on countries like South Sudan, Syria, Venezuela, Yemen and refugee camps worldwide.

Wherever they come from, wherever they live, refugees are shaping policies, art, traditions, dreams and futures in ordinary - and extraordinary - ways. The influence of refugees on culture is immeasurable.​

Here are four reasons the International Rescue Committee’s Emergency Watchlist ranks Palestine as one of the countries most at risk of worsening humanitarian crisis in 2024.

Rohingya refugees are the world’s largest stateless group and one of the most persecuted. More than 745,000 Rohingya have fled persecution in Myanmar’s Rakhine State to Cox’s Bazar, a district in neighbouring Bangladesh. There, the International Rescue Committee and its partners provide health care and protection for women and girls. 

IRC (International Rescue Committee) Deutschland sucht zum nächstmöglichen Zeitpunkt am Standort Berlin, Bonn oder bundesweit im homeoffice eine Referent:in (w/m/d) Rechstberatung mit Schwerpunt auf Einzelfalberatung in Dari/Paschu/Farsi in Teil-oder Vollzeitzeit (32-40 Std./Woche). Die Stelle ist vorerst befristet auf 12 Monate

8-year-old Reem* has been learning mindfulness techniques to help relieve her anxiety and apprehensions after growing up with the traumas of the war in Syria. About our work with the European Union The International Rescue Committee partners with the European Union to provide life-saving support to people caught in conflict and disasters around the world.