The Ministerial Week of UNGA is meant to be the moment when the world comes together. Yet today fracture and fragmentation is dominant. Bad faith drives out good ideas. Hard power makes a mockery of ...

As world leaders gather for UNGA, the IRC warned that the institution’s goals to end poverty, hunger and disease are failing.

As El Niño, projected to be one of the strongest in recent history, nears its peak and conflict-disrupted shipping continues to push up the cost of food, fuel and fertilizer, tens of millions more ...

Heavy rainfall linked to the El Niño weather pattern has resulted in flooding in parts of Mogadishu, Somalia, and the International Rescue Committee (IRC)-supported Ariif Health Centre has already ...

Beatrice has worked as a nurse for almost half a century, resolutely serving her community in the face of war, widowhood, and a system that told her she was too old.

Aden, Yemen, May 8, 2025 — After battling Yemen's worst cholera outbreak since 2017, the International Rescue Committee (IRC) has concluded its eight-month emergency response, but warns that without ...

Temporary Protected Status (TPS) is a critical humanitarian tool that protects foreign nationals residing in the United States from deportation when conditions in their home countries make it unsafe ...

Right now, nearly 118 million people around the world are displaced by crisis, the highest number ever recorded. As humanitarian needs rise, funding from governments has been slashed—but your ...

Ecuador enters the IRC’s Emergency Watchlist for the first time as skyrocketing levels of violence, combined with persistent economic pressures, are eroding livelihoods and driving rates of poverty ...

Lebanon, Haiti countries to watch for 2026, as risks mount in countries like Colombia This year’s Watchlist issues the starkest warning yet: Civilians in Watchlist countries are on the frontlines of a ...

Population: 120.8 million 28.6 million people in need of humanitarian aid 20 million people estimated to be experiencing food insecurity 3.5 million people internally displaced 31.9 million people ...

Since the Taliban entered Kabul, taking control of Afghanistan, the United States has welcomed over 76,000 Afghans forced to flee their country. Some had to leave because they supported the U.S.