International Rescue Committee (IRC) Updates

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Over 700,000 people displaced as hostilities escalate in Lebanon; IRC issues emergency alert for Lebanon Beirut, Lebanon, March 9, 2026 — Escalating hostilities between Israel and Hezbollah have...

New York, NY, March 9, 2026 — As world leaders begin to gather at the United Nations today for the 70th Commission on the Status of Women (CSW), the urgent needs of women and girls in humanitarian...

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...

Beirut, Lebanon, March 4, 2026 — In the wake of military escalations across much of the Middle East, hostilities between Hezbollah and Israel escalated dramatically on March 1st, forcing tens of...

Amman, Jordan, March 2, 2026 — The International Rescue Committee (IRC) is deeply concerned by the escalating hostilities across the Middle East and the growing humanitarian consequences for...

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The integrated food security phase classification (IPC) system shows the crisis or worse level has nearly doubled between February and March 2026 to a staggering 6.5 million people since early 2025.

Khartoum, Sudan, February 25, 2026 — Zeleke Bacha, IRC Sudan West Director, said, “As violence continues in Sudan, the closure of the border with Chad is extremely concerning for Sudanese families...

Following the series of building collapses in Tripoli, most recently on 8 th February 2026, the Government of Lebanon (GoL) will lead a response to address the safety concerns regarding existing...

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Kyiv, Ukraine, February 23, 2026 — Alain Homsy, IRC’s Ukraine Country Director, says: “Four years into the full‑scale war, Ukrainians are facing yet another winter without the essentials every person...

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New York, NY, February 19, 2026 — The International Rescue Committee (IRC) calls on the U.S. administration to halt the rollout of a newly released policy that claims sweeping authority to arrest and...

New York, NY, February 16, 2026 — The International Rescue Committee (IRC) and War Child today announced a new five-year Strategic Partnership to scale evidence-based solutions that protect children...

1.4 million people displaced, half of them children The murder rate rose nearly 20% in 2025, with over 8,000 people killed 1,000% increase in sexual violence against children since 2023 8,000 cases...

Nairobi, Kenya, February 11, 2026 — Zeleke Bacha, IRC West Sudan Director said, “The International Rescue Committee is devastated that several hundred shelters have been burned down in a displacement...

Protection monitoring is the systematic and regular collection, verification, and analysis of information over an extended period of time, in order to identify violations of rights and protection...

February 5, 2026 – The Integrated Food Security Phase Classification Partnership (IPC) alerts today of famine-level acute malnutrition detected in two more localities in North Darfur, Um Baru and...