Topic: International Rescue Committee

Change Agent Two extraordinary African women tell their stories

As disabled women refugees, Dahabo Hassan Maow and Aitm Caroline Ogwang faced tremendous obstacles. But they've overcome every one and now advocate for other women in need.

Opinion: Reminder from Boston Marathon bombings: A need to integrate immigrant children

The Boston Marathon bombings could not have been foreseen in the case files of  8-year-old asylum seeker, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, and his 15-year-old brother, Tamerlan. What should be questioned is whether US authorities do enough to integrate immigrant children once they arrive.

Change Agent Expat Syrian doctors help bind up the wounds of war

Doctors in Syria describe being targeted in bombing campaigns and risking death, detention, and torture to treat the wounded, whether civilians or fighters.

War crimes in Syria: Time to appeal to International Criminal Court?

Fifty-seven countries on Monday urged the UN Security Council to ask the International Criminal Court at The Hague to investigate possible war crimes in Syria. The call comes as other groups report a spike in sexual violence in Syria.

Report: Rape a 'major reason' refugees flee Syria

The International Rescue Committee said in a report released today that Syria is facing a 'staggering humanitarian crisis.' More than 600,000 Syrians have fled the country.

Cover Story Human trafficking: a misunderstood global scourge

Sex trafficking has become an American cause célèbre. But does it divert attention from the broader human trafficking issue of modern-day slavery?

Change Agent Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman urge fans to help Africa

In a show of corporate social responsibility, DC Comics unleashes its superheroes on the problems in the Horn of Africa

UN declares famine in Somalia: How to help

The UN officially declared a famine in some parts of southern Somalia today. The UN alone says it needs $300 million in the next two months to provide adequate aid. Here's how you can help.

Denis Mukwege helps women ravaged by Congo war

Denis Mukwege and his staff have treated more than 30,000 women, most of them survivors of sexual assaults, since he opened the Panzi Hospital in the Democratic Republic of Congo in 1999.

Local peace builder Henri Ladyi helps Congolese turn from violence

Henri Ladyi formed the Center for Conflict Resolution in the Democratic Republic of Congo to oppose widespread rape and child soldiering.

Libya preventing refugees from leaving as fighting escalates

'Libya no good!' chanted refugees who had already made it across the Tunisia-Libya border. The flow of refugees has suddenly dropped 80 percent.

On Libya-Tunisia border, refugees plead for help to go home

More than 95,000 refugees have crossed the remote desert border post at Ras Ajdir, Tunisia, in the past 10 days. President Obama said the US military would help transport home refugees from Libya, and the European Commission boosted aid.

Ways to help Haiti in wake of hurricane Tomas

After a January earthquake leveled Haiti's capital and left more than 300,000 dead, and a deadly cholera outbreak in October, Haiti now faces fallout from hurricane Tomas.

Haiti earthquake diary: The lives within the tent cities

There is an organized world within the tent cities that have cropped up all over Port-au-Prince since the Jan. 12 earthquake. I meet a young woman who gave birth the day of the earthquake and a boy who races a toy car he made from trash.

New study argues war deaths are often overestimated

A new study, the Human Security Report, argues that politics and fund-raising priorities often lead to overestimates of war deaths, touching off a controversy among the researchers who work on the issue.

United States: Immigrant farmers dig in

Doctors Without Borders exit Darfur

Three aid workers were kidnapped this week, while others express concern about the health of the 1.1 million Darfuris left without assistance.

Taliban wages war on aid groups

Wednesday's ambush by the militants killed three Western aid workers and their Afghan driver. It's part of an apparent bid to rid Afghanistan of foreign aid workers.

A new 'neighborhood watch': Azeri horsemen guard BP pipeline

The $100 million effort stretches across 450 towns and is part of a growing push for corporate social responsibility.

Opinion: Bush's peace opportunity in Congo

A large diplomatic presence there is key to peace.