Safer Lives for Refugee Women

The Boston Globe ran an op-ed by Liv Ullmann on our Beyond Firewood work.

Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act Passes

The act will protect migrant children who arrive in the U.S. every year without a parent or guardian.

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Crisis in Congo

Women, children and men flee from fresh fighting in Kibati. The war in Congo has caused five million deaths and uprooted millions. Learn more

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Too Little for Too Few: Meeting the Needs of Youth in Darfur, December 2008.

Living in Limbo: Burma's Youth in Thailand See Few Opportunities to Use Education and Vocational skills, October 2008.

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DARFUR

More than 2.5 million people have been displaced by the five-year conflict in Darfur. More

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The war in Iraq has created one of the fastest growing refugee crises in the world. Read on

MORE CONGO

Read a letter to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Congo

IRC Congo Response
The IRC is scaling up emergency aid in North Kivu, including firewood distribution.

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Read a statement on the United States policy on internal displacement

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