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Peer educator Finda Saah and IRC senior social worker Marian Rogers discuss gender-based violence issues in the community.
(Photo: Emily Holland/International Rescue Committee)

Videos:

IRC Voices: Michael Kocher

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Photo Essays:

Photo Essay from Jo Offer in Kenya

(July 2008) Kenya hosts hundreds of thousands of refugees fleeing from conflict and oppression in neighbouring countries. The refugees - and the communities they live alongside - are facing tough times with rising food prices, soaring fuel costs, and insecurity fears.

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Afghans in pictures: Reluctant return (BBC)

(May 2008) In April and May 2008 International Rescue Committee's senior policy adviser Anna Husarska went to Pakistan and Afghanistan to help highlight the plight of the Afghan refugees and returnees. Here is the story of the departure of Afghans from the largest remaining camp in Pakistan, the Jalozai refugee camp near Peshawar as told in Anna's photos.

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Audio (mp3):

Webcast: IRC's lifesaving work with two award-winning IRC photographers

Go behind the scenes of the IRC's lifesaving work with two award-winning IRC photographers.

Watch our archived webcast here.

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Urgent Briefing from the Field: Expelled from Darfur

In this podcast from our March 11, 2009 briefing Gideon Rose of Foreign Affairs magazine moderates a discussion between Kurt Tjossem, IRC Regional Director, Horn & East Africa and Michael Kocher, Vice President of IRC's International Programs on the consequences of the closing of the IRC's programs in Darfur, North and East Sudan.  The IRC has been delivering aid to vulnerable men, women, and children in Sudan for 28 years and we remain committed to helping Sudanese communities across the country recover and rebuild. Please join us for an inside look into this urgent situation.

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