The announcement of a two-week ceasefire is a welcome step but it is partial, fragile, and incomplete. Most urgently, it does not include Lebanon, where I visited IRC programs last week and where ...

Tripoli, Libya, September 13, 2023 — The International Rescue Committee (IRC) urgently calls for international assistance to address the catastrophic humanitarian crisis unfolding in Libya as a result ...

The International Rescue Committee (IRC) is warning today that the effective closure of the Strait of Hormuz could pose an ...

For more than a decade, the International Rescue Committee’s (IRC) annual Emergency Watchlist has accurately predicted 85-95 percent of the countries most likely to face a worsening humanitarian ...

people are in need of humanitarian assistance.

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 ...

Drought is caused by a lack of rainfall, causing serious water shortages. It can be fatal. Droughts can be triggered by natural causes and by human activity. The IRC is delivering life-saving support ...

The Emergency Watchlist report is the International Rescue Committee’s assessment of the 20 countries at greatest risk of new humanitarian emergencies each year. It is based on an analytically ...

The IRC's 2025 Emergency Watchlist highlights the top 10 global crises, focusing on countries like Sudan, Syria, and Myanmar, where conflict, climate change, and economic instability exacerbate ...

The IRC is committed to helping people whose lives and livelihoods are shattered by conflict and disaster, to survive, recover and gain control over their future. This often involves delivering ...

Update, December 22, 2020: Read about the unrelenting crisis in Yemen in our latest explainer and 2021 Emergency Watchlist. Since 2015, Yemen has been in the grip of a brutal civil war. After rebel ...