International Rescue Committee

The International Rescue Committee (IRC) is a international nongovernmental organization providing humanitarian aid, relief and development. Established in 1933 at the appeal of Sir. Albert Einstein, the IRC provides emergency aid and long-term support to refugees and those moved by war, persecution or natural disaster. The IRC is presently working in more than 40 countries and 22 U.S. cities where it inhabits refugees and assists them to become self-sufficient. Right now, the President of the International Rescue Committee is ex- U.K. Member of Parliament, David Miliband.

The IRC has aided millions of people all-around the world since its establishment in 1933, in first responders, humanitarian relief workers, international development specialists, health care providers, and educators.

Founding

International Rescue can mark out its beginning to the International Relief Association (IRA), originated in 1931 in Germany by two left-wing sections, the Communist Party Opposition (KPO) and the Socialist Workers Party (SAP). Its function was to aid victims of affirm cruelty and harassment. After the Nazis took control in 1933, the organisation shifted its headquarters to Paris. The KPO included of the 'precise opposition' - communists who had been removed by Stalin in 1929 due to their shore up for Nikolai Bukharin. Among those removed was Jay Lovestone, the previous head of the American Communist Party. It was Lovestone who founded an American segment of the International Relief Association in 1933. Among those who united with him was Albert Einstein. Its principle was to help Germans anguishing under Adolf Hitler's government - mainly followers of the 'right opposition'. Afterward, refugees from Mussolini's Italy and Franco's Spain were supported.

In 1940, European exiles and American liberals nearer with Eleanor Roosevelt, established the Emergency Rescue Committee (ERC) to help European refugees locked in Vichy France. Its envoy in Marseilles Varian Fry was involved in helping many individuals flee Vichy and the Nazis to shelter in the U.S. and somewhere else. Over 2,000 political, cultural, union and academic leaders were freed in thirteen months. Fry also worked directly with British intelligence, helping to ascertain escape courses for British servicemen. In 1942, following the US entered the Second World War, IRA and ERC united forces under the name International Relief and Rescue Committee, which was later on abbreviated to the International Rescue Committee. - funded mainly by the National War Fund. As per the historian Eric Thomas Chester, by the 1950s the IRC had grown into a worldwide operation executing as an essential link in the CIA's secret network, became deeply implicated in the unpredictable conflicts between the two superpowers, and contributed in an arrangement of sensitive covert operations.

Operations

The IRC conveys a number of services, comprising emergency response, health care, programs fighting gender-based brutality, after-conflict development missions, children and youth protection and education programs, water and sanitation systems, amplification the capacity of neighboring organizations, and supporting civil society and good-governance projects. For refugee's related sanctuary in the United States, IRC resettlement offices all over the country offer a range of help aimed at helping new entrances settling, adjusting and acquiring the expertise to become self-sufficient.

The IRC also involves in backing efforts in support of the exploited and displaced, and its yearly Freedom Award identifies “extraordinary assistance to the grounds of refugees and human freedom." The IRC has organized a campaign opines the United States to outdo the International Violence Against Women Act, which is at the present prior to Congress. The organization has also campaigned for the United States to approve the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child where 196 countries have signed this UN convention but only  the US is the only UN country which so far has not.

Current work

The IRC at present works in over 40 countries and in 22 U.S. cities. In 2010, prominent operations comprised disaster response in the rouse of the earthquake in Haiti, continuing programs to deal with the humanitarian crisis in Congo and to help society rebuilding efforts in Afghanistan and Pakistan, and support and relocation efforts on behalf of Iraqis evacuated by the war in Haiti, Congo, Iraq.