Opinion
IRC welcomes Iran war ceasefire but warns Lebanon cannot be left out with civilians still at risk
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 ...
The International Rescue Committee (IRC) is warning today that the effective closure of the Strait of Hormuz could pose an ...
Beirut, Lebanon, March 17, 2026 — With one million people now displaced in Lebanon in just two weeks, the International Rescue Committee (IRC) warns that one of the fastest displacement crises the ...
Beirut, Lebanon, March 9, 2026 — Escalating hostilities between Israel and Hezbollah have forced more than 700,000 people to flee their homes across Lebanon, triggering a rapidly deepening ...
New York, March 4, 2026 — For the humanitarian sector, artificial intelligence arrives wrapped in paradox. On the one hand, the promise is enormous: tools that can translate across languages instantly ...
Port-au-Prince, Haiti, February 11, 2026 — The International Rescue Committee (IRC) warns that rising instability combined with a drastic global decline in humanitarian funding risks pushing millions ...
Aden, Yemen, January 19, 2026 — People of Yemen are starving in silence, warns the International Rescue Committee (IRC), as funding reductions and ongoing insecurity compounds crisis. Yemen is ...
Each year, the International Rescue Committee releases a list of the 20 humanitarian crises expected to deteriorate the most over the next year. For the past decade, this report has helped us ...
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 ...
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 ...
On August 31, a 6.0 magnitude earthquake struck eastern Afghanistan, causing over 2,000 deaths, leaving thousands more injured across four provinces, and severely damaging homes and health ...
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