IRC calls for new global framework built around conflict, as the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals fall far short of their targets Only 15% of UN Sustainable Development Goal targets are on track and ...

Yemen is a country blessed with kind people, a rich culture and history, and incredible food. It also carries tremendous poverty and need. I just spent a week in the south of the country, visiting IRC ...

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 ...

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 ...

The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) were the world’s central instrument in the fight against poverty, but they were designed for a more peaceful era that no longer exists.

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.

Nairobi, Kenya, October 11, 2023 — The International Rescue Committee (IRC) is sounding an alarm following heavy flooding in parts of Somalia, particularly Baidoa in the southwest, and a warning ...

Brussels, Belgium, 11 June 2026 — As the EU Pact on Migration and Asylum takes effect tomorrow (12 June), not only does it lack vital safeguards to protect people seeking safety, but governments have ...

The International Rescue Committee’s (IRC) annual Emergency Watchlist highlights the 20 countries most at risk of new or worsened humanitarian emergencies. For more than a decade, this report has ...