Today, more than half of the world’s displaced people live in urban areas and the average length of displacement is 25 years. The humanitarian sector must adapt to meet the challenges of an urbanizing world and the increasing role of cities as places of refuge and economic opportunity, as well as sites of heightened risk of crisis, marginalization and inequality.

Community support is key to helping newly arrived refugees thrive. Learn about the different ways - volunteering, donating, and more - you can support the IRC in San Jose here.

Students from Wichita East High School and Manhattan Middle School in Manhattan, Kansas hosted donation drives for hygiene items to be given to refugees resettling in Wichita.

Refugees and people experiencing crisis have been hit especially hard by COVID-19. Go inside the IRC’s innovative, lifesaving responses to the global pandemic.

Abdisalan, a refugee from Somalia, is grateful for the help he found at the IRC, from after school tutoring to becoming a US citizen.

The IRC mentoring program helps refugee and asylee youth to stay connected and improve their English over the summer.

Support our efforts to provide much-needed items and gifts to refugee families in need this holiday season during our Light One Candle holiday gift drive!

The IRC in Boise seeks to improve refugee & immigrants' experiences of our services by better understanding complex U.S. and global Histories and adapting our services.

Fresh from filming the latest season of Showtime’s Homeland, actor and activist Mandy Patinkin recently traveled to Uganda with the International Rescue Committee to see what happens when refugees are welcomed with open arms.