By Peter Biro
On her sixteenth birthday, Ngelay* was told by her mother that she had arranged for her to be married. The prospective groom, a much older man living in Malaysia, had already sent 50 grams of gold to Ngelay's mother as a down-payment. The remaining amount was to be paid when the... More >
The IRC's Melissa Winkler is in Haiti to help earthquake survivors tell their stories and to document the IRC's emergency work. She shared these photos from the shanty towns of Port-au-Prince, where a high concentration of people, paltry or non-existent sanitation and the buildup of waste pose a... More >
In the first few months of 2010, violence has escalated in Karamoja – a remote, rural and marginalised area of northeast Uganda – and security is increasingly unpredictable. Each week brings news of clashes involving rival clans, armed bandits and government soldiers. But what is not reported is... More >
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By Peter Biro
Noela M'Nagashenyi's labour pains began early in the morning. She limped out of the hut she calls home in her village in eastern Congo and began walking. It was a day's trek to the nearest health clinic where she might receive help giving... More >
Karri Goeldner Byrne is the IRC's director of economic recovery programmes and is based in London. She has flown out to Haiti to work on a market mapping analysis designed to... More >
Karri Goeldner Byrne is the IRC's director of economic recovery programmes and is based in London. She has flown out to Haiti to work on a market mapping analysis designed to... More >
Karri Goeldner Byrne is the IRC's director of economic recovery programmes and is based in London. She has flown out to Haiti to work on a market mapping analysis designed to... More >
Karri Goeldner Byrne is the IRC's director of economic recovery programmes and is based in London. She has flown out to Haiti to work on a market mapping analysis designed to... More >
