While over 4 million refugees have already fled Ukraine, millions more people remain trapped and in need of aid with their cities under attack.

As the refugee crisis in Europe and ongoing Syrian war continue to dominate news headlines, many countries struggle with conflict and natural disaster largely out of sight—and largely on their own.

Each year, the IRC lists the countries at greatest risk of worsening humanitarian crisis over the coming year.

Alima fled her home of seven decades just two days before ISIS swept through her village near Mosul in 2014. She left with just her identity papers. Alima went home recently, hoping to find some belongings or mementos. Instead, she found armed men occupying her house. “It is hard to live 70 years in a place and then someone says ‘this place does not belong to you anymore.’”

Who is a refugee? Who is a migrant? And what is the difference? Get the facts.

The International Rescue Committee is significantly scaling up our humanitarian response in northeastern Nigeria, where hunger and famine threaten people who have lived in the grip of Boko Haram terror over the past four years.