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Eastern Congo: "We are Forced to Flee Every Two Months"

Peter Biro | Posted 12.06.2009 | Impact

Read More: North Kivu, International Rescue Committee, South Kivu, Mungote Camp, Irc, Slideshow, Mount Nyamulagira, Congo, Impact News
Peter Biro

"Many people were killed in the crossfire," Ruti says, as she escorts me to her makeshift shelter. "I saw bodies lying dead in the street. The only thing I managed to bring with me was a frying pan. "

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What U.S. Bailout Money Could Do For The Rest Of The World

Huffington Post | Victoria Fine | Posted 11.09.2009 | Impact

Read More: Government Spending, $2.3 Billion, Cit, Government Bailout, Bankruptcy, International Rescue Committee, Bailout Money, Impact News

Ever wonder how all that money spent on government bailouts of U.S. companies and banks could have been spent differently? The Business Insider did. O...

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Interview with the Red Cross Secretary General in Geneva

Jim Luce | Posted 08.21.2009 | World

Read More: Egypt, Rotary International, Cyclone Sidr, Sri Lanka, Doctor Without Borders, Thailand, International Rescue Committee, Ethiopia, Red Crescent, Indonesia, Climate Change, Hurricane Katrina, And, Turkey, Aceh, David Meltzer, Henry Dunant, Red Cross, Cyclone Bhola, Turkish Red Crescent, Palestine, Bangladesh, Memory of Solferino, Cyclone Preparedness, New York, Cyclone Gorky, Humanitarian Response, Tsunami, Austro-Sardinian War, Geneva, Malaysia, American Red Cross, India, Secretary General of The, International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, Bekele Geleta, Ifrc, Solferino, World News
Jim Luce

Bekele Geleta grew up in Ethiopia where he developed a strong understanding of the critical role of Red Cross Red Crescent principles, such as neutrality in matters of politics and religion.

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Iraqi Refugees in the U.S.: Strangers in Paradise

Crossover Dreams | Posted 07.29.2009 | World

Read More: Inter Press Service, Iraqi Refugees, Ips, Iraqi Christians, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Iraq, Refugees, International Rescue Committee, Chaldeans, World News
Crossover Dreams

Wars often drive people from their homes. But in Iraq, a discretionary war, launched through deception by a rogue administration in search of good targets for "shock and awe", produced refugees with industrial efficiency.

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Iraqi Refugees in the United States - In Dire Straits

International Rescue Committee | Posted 07.21.2009 | Politics

Read More: Iraqi Refugees, World Refugee Day, Refugees, International Rescue Committee, Iraqis in America, Politics News
International Rescue Committee

Many people say that now is not the time for America to bring in more Iraqi refugees. I tell them that Iraqi refugees cannot wait for the economy to improve. Resettlement is saving their lives.

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Deceptive Calm in Kabul

International Rescue Committee | Posted 06.28.2009 | World

Read More: Aid Workers, Afghanistan, International Rescue Committee, Afghanistan War, World News
International Rescue Committee

The deaths of four International Rescue Committee colleagues of mine have triggered a re-thinking of aid agency work in Afghanistan.

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Looking Beyond Somalia's Pirates And Into Kenya's Refugee Camps (SLIDESHOW)

International Rescue Committee/HuffPost Contributor | Joanne Offer | Posted 05.02.2009 | World

Read More: Slideshow, Somalia Pirates, United Nations, International Rescue Committee, United Nations Africa, Dabaab Kenya, Kenya Refugee Camps, Somali Refugees, Irc, Dabaab, Kenya Refugees, Kenya, Africa, Somalia Islamic Insurgents, Dabaab Camps, Somalia, Islamic Insurgents, Somali Government, Somali Refugees Kenya, World News

I'm going to hazard a guess. If I mention Somalia, you'll think of warlords and pirates. Because that's what the media headlines have highlighted. Wha...

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Fighting Child Labor, Trafficking In Liberia (SLIDESHOW)

Huffington Post Contributor | Emily Holland, International Rescue Committee | Posted 04.05.2009 | World

Read More: Child Labor, Slideshow, Child Labor Liberia, Child Trafficking, Child Labor Africa, International Rescue Committee, Africa, Liberia, Irc, Child Trafficking Liberia, Child Trafficking Africa, World News

Colonel Richard Gonkarnue has one of the toughest jobs in Nimba County, Liberia: to combat child labor and trafficking at one of several checkpoints ...

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Kenya: One Year After Elections Unleashed Brutal Violence, How Is The Country Coping? (Slideshow)

Joanne Offer | Posted 01.19.2009 | World

Read More: Slideshow, Africa, Violence in Kenya, Kenya, Kenya One Year Anniversary, International Rescue Committee, Irc, Kenya Elections, December 2007 Kenya, World News
Joanne Offer

It's almost a year since Kenya went from being known as a land of big cats and safaris to a country beset by brutal mob violence; a place where a church full of worshipers could be set ablaze.

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