NGO’s newspaper ad asks Americans for donations after Trump’s drastic aid cuts
Washington DC, US Reuters An international non-governmental organisation has placed a full-page advertisement in Sunday’s New York Times calling on Americans to provide donations to support hundreds of millions of people in need after drastic cuts in US foreign aid. The International Rescue Committee (IRC) said the advertisement was sponsored by a private donor and […]
Sudan again tops International Rescue Committee crises watchlist
United Nations Reuters Sudan – for the second year in a row – topped a 2025 watchlist of global humanitarian crises released by the International Rescue Committee (IRC) aid organisation on Wednesday, followed by Gaza and the West Bank, Myanmar, Syria and South Sudan. The New York-based IRC began the watchlist more than 15 years […]
Updated: Haiti’s neighbours prepare for “drastic escalation” in violence after jailbreak
Updated 10:55am (AEDT) Port-au-Prince, Haiti Reuters Haiti’s neighbours on Monday began shoring up their defences and recalling embassy staff as a gang conflict in the Caribbean nation escalated and thousands fled fresh fighting. On Sunday, Haiti’s de facto government issued a 72-hour state of emergency and imposed nightly curfews after armed men busted thousands from […]
Humanitarian crises will worsen in 2024 – International Rescue Committee
Mexico City, City Reuters Climate change, worsening armed conflicts, growing debt-loads and shrinking international support will accelerate humanitarian crises worldwide in 2024, the International Rescue Committee said in a report on Thursday. In its 2024 Emergency Watchlist, the New York-based IRC pointed to 20 nations largely in Africa at the greatest risk of a worsening […]
Border crossing with Afghanistan swamped by Afghans after Pakistani expulsion order
Peshawar, Pakistan Reuters Thousands of people swamped Pakistan’s main north-western border crossing seeking to cross into Afghanistan on Thursday, a day after the government’s deadline expired for undocumented foreigners to leave or face expulsion. Pakistani authorities began rounding up undocumented foreigners, most of them Afghans, hours before Wednesday’s deadline. More than a million Afghans could […]
Migrants struggle to meet basic needs after arriving in Italy, survey shows
Rome, Italy Reuters Migrants arriving in Italy face extreme challenges to meet their basic needs after leaving reception centres, a survey showed on Thursday, with almost a third of them struggling to feed themselves. The survey, issued by aid group International Rescue Committee, is based on interviews with 598 people who landed on Italy’s shores […]
Finding work: Migrant Venezuelan women in Colombia chase business dreams
ANASTASIA MOLONEY, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports on how migrant women from Venezuela struggling to escape poverty and discrimination in the jobs market in Colombia are turning to their own small businesses…
Building resilience: As world’s poor face “compounding crises”, what could curb risks?
LAURIE GOERING, of the Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports that while climate change impacts threaten to overwhelm humanitarian aid systems, changes in how money is moved could help…
Mexico’s Haitian asylum seekers lack access to basic resources, says IRC
Mexico City Reuters More than nine in 10 Haitians seeking asylum in Mexico lack the resources to cover basic necessities such as food, shelter and medical care, the International Rescue Committee aid group said on Thursday. Tens of thousands of Haitians have been displaced in recent months as heavily armed gangs have expanded their control […]
Fleeing drought, Somalis face malnutrition and cholera in Kenya
Dadaab, Kenya Reuters When her three-month-old baby fell sick from malnutrition, Dool Abdirahman Ismael left her village in Somalia and walked for three days through swirling dust and scorching heat to the Dadaab Refugee Camp just across the border in Kenya. Ismael, 26, said she had hoped Dadaab would be free of the hunger and […]