In Caracas and La Guaira families are sleeping in the streets and parks, searching rubble with bare hands, and competing for clean water as the survival window closes Almost 50,000 people, including ...
Caracas, Venezuela, June 25, 2026 — Two powerful earthquakes have killed at least 164 people and injured nearly 1,000 across Venezuela, leaving thousands more in urgent need of emergency assistance.
New York, NY, June 8, 2026 — The International Rescue Committee (IRC) today released The New World Disorder: More Shocks, Fewer Shock Absorbers, its 2026 Emergency Watchlist Midyear Update, ...
Six months after the IRC's 2026 Emergency Watchlist warned of a New World Disorder, the evidence is clear: crises are spreading faster than the systems designed to contain them. The IRC's Watchlist ...
The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) was already one of the world's most severe humanitarian emergencies before a new Ebola outbreak began spreading across its conflict-ravaged east. The IRC's 2026 ...
The outbreak is spreading faster than the response, with over 900 suspected cases and at least 223 deaths already reported across DRC and Uganda, including in major transport hubs like Goma and ...
Suspected Ebola cases have risen sharply from 246 to 500 in just 96 hours across eastern Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda, representing an increase of 103% over three days. The last two major ...
New York, NY, April 1, 2026 — The International Rescue Committee (IRC) is warning today that the effective closure of the Strait of Hormuz could pose an exponentially greater threat to global food ...
New York, NY, March 20, 2026 — The International Rescue Committee (IRC) is warning that airspace closures across parts of the Middle East and the closure of the Strait of Hormuz are beginning to ...
For more than a decade, the International Rescue Committee’s (IRC) annual Emergency Watchlist has accurately predicted 85-95 percent of the countries most likely to face a worsening humanitarian ...
Lebanon, Haiti countries to watch for 2026, as risks mount in countries like Colombia This year’s Watchlist issues the starkest warning yet: Civilians in Watchlist countries are on the frontlines of a ...
The Emergency Watchlist report is the International Rescue Committee’s (IRC) assessment of the 20 countries most likely to face a worsening humanitarian crisis in the coming year. The report is based ...
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