Port-au-Prince, Haiti
The International Rescue Committee (IRC) is building washing facilities and latrines for thousands of displaced Haitians living in makeshift outdoor settlements in the capital city.
Work on 20 latrines and 20 bathing stations has been completed at two settlements, including... More >
The International Rescue Committee is launching healing, recreational and protection programs for Haitian children and expanding efforts to reunite separated children with their families.
"Tens of thousands of Haitian children are homeless, traumatised, disoriented and distressed and those... More >
The International Rescue Committee (IRC) is teaming up with Management Sciences for Health (MSH), the global nonprofit health development organisation, to respond to the relief effort in Haiti.
The IRC and MSH previously worked together in Pakistan after the 2005 earthquake and in Southern Sudan,... More >
The name of the International Rescue Committee is currently being used in an email scam purporting to seek donations for Haiti.
The email asks for donations to a joint appeal by the IRC with the United Nations World Food Programme. This is a fraudulent email and we do not have such an appeal with... More >
Anna Husarska writes from Port-au-Prince
From an airplane flying into the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince, you see the extent of destruction from last week's earthquake and the mass displacement it has created.
Every park, every square, every athletics field, even large gardens are... More >
The International Rescue Committee, which carried out a series of mortality surveys in the Democratic Republic of Congo from 2000 to 2007 in conjunction with some of the world's leading epidemiologists, strongly affirms its finding that an estimated 5.4 million people died as a result of war and... More >
The International Rescue Committee's Emergency Response Team is on the ground in Haiti, joining other rescue workers delivering aid to hundreds of thousands of Haitians in desperate need of food, clean water and shelter.
On Sunday, the team visited 13 sites in the battered city of... More >
The IRC's director in Southern Sudan, Richard Poole, contributes to this piece on the rising violence in the region. Read it at Reuters AlertNet >
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There is only one year left for Sudanese parties to salvage a 2005 peace agreement that ended more than 20 years of war and requires a pivotal referendum next January on unity or secession for Southern Sudan.
As Sudan marks the fifth anniversary of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement, the... More >
