International Rescue Committee [to 21 June 2014]

20 Jun 2014
As world marks World Refugee Day IRC fears new health emergency in Iraq
The specter of a health crisis is spreading among Iraqi families and communities already traumatized by conflict and displacement. As soaring summer temperatures set in, the IRC is concerned that communicable and potentially deadly illnesses children are particularly susceptible to, such as diarrhea, will take hold in the squalid environments in which displaced Iraqis are living. To make matters worse, the threat of polio and measles looms over newly displaced communities that do not yet have access to basic sanitation services…

20 Jun 2014
IRC side event at the ECOSOC Humanitarian Affairs Segment

20 Jun 2014
Syria Refugee Crisis pushing Lebanon to take concerning steps, aid agencies warn

20 Jun 2014
On World Refugee Day, IRC concerned by USG request to divert funding from refugee resettlement to accommodate unaccompanied minors on the border
Today the International Rescue Committee expressed its deep concern at plans announced by the Office of Refugee Resettlement at the US Department of Health and Human Services to divert $94 million in funding for refugee resettlement to the crisis unfolding on the Mexican border, where almost 10,000 unaccompanied children have turned up in the past few months, and 100 more are arriving daily.

19 Jun 2014
Extreme fuel shortage “will exacerbate an already stretched humanitarian response,” warns the IRC [Iraq]

Intl Rescue Comm IRC @theIRC • Jun 18
RIGHT NOW: IRC’s Melanie Teff speaking at #UNHCRNGOs session on internal displacement w/ examples from #SouthSudan: http://bit.ly/1nbtFyA

Intl Rescue Comm IRC @theIRC • Jun 17
“Many families reported leaving to protect their daughters.” An update from the IRC’s women’s coordinator in #Iraq: http://bit.ly/T5n6pv

Intl Rescue Comm IRC @theIRC • Jun 16
IRC field teams are already seeing overcrowding in #Iraq. Our statement: http://bit.ly/T142ZC