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Emily Holland in Darfur, 4

(March 2007) The IRC's Emily Holland looks back on her month-and-a-half field visit to Darfur, Sudan. "You never really leave a place like Darfur," she says. "I plan to spend my time working to communicate all I've seen and heard until the displaced Darfuris I've met receive the help they need."

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Emily Holland in Darfur, 3

(March 2007) The IRC's Emily Holland describes what a typical day looks like for an IRC aid worker in Darfur and for displaced families who have found shelter in the camps where the IRC works.

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Emily Holland in Darfur, 2

(March 2007) Emily Holland speaks with a woman who is in charge of an IRC women's center in Darfur about what women's health really means and what the IRC is doing to help women survive the chaos of the Darfur crisis.

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Emily Holland in Darfur, 1

(March 2007) The IRC's Emily Holland traveled to Otash Camp in Darfur, home to 50,000 people fleeing ongoing violence in the region. She interviewed women who have just arrived at the camp and shares their heart-wrenching stories.

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Caught in the Conflict: How is the IRC helping women survive?

In a March 8, 2007 phone briefing, the International Rescue Committee's Heidi Lehmann discussed violence against women. Lehmann, the IRC's senior technical advisor on gender-based violence, was questioned by Susan Dentzer, an IRC board member and on-air health correspondent for the NewsHour with Jim Lehrer on PBS. During the special International Women's Day session, Lehmann talked about her personal experiences working with women in Congo, Thailand and elsewhere.

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Saving Lives in Congo

(October 2006) International Rescue Committee health unit director Rick Brennan talks about how the IRC is saving lives in Congo and what ordinary citizens can do to help. Brennan describes the “extraordinary, heroic effort” that went into conducting the three IRC-sponsored mortality studies that found that nearly 4 million people had died in Congo during the war, most from preventable diseases.

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