Podcasts

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.

(June 2008) On May 2, Cyclone Nargis swept through Myanmar, destroying hundreds of villages, killing up to 200,000 people, and displacing more than 2 million others. Within days, an IRC emergency response team was on the ground distributing supplies to the most vulnerable survivors, providing shelter materials, clothing, mosquito nets, and water containers.

(42 minutes, 22 seconds)

(November 2007) In this November 15, 2007 phone briefing, George Rupp, the International Rescue Committee's president and Alyoscia D'Onofrio, IRC's regional director for Congo, discuss the current situation in Congo and IRC’s role. Susan Dentzer, an IRC board member and health correspondent for the NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, moderated. D'Onofrio, who called in from Congo, updated listeners on the IRC’s effort, along with the other aid agencies and Congolese authorities, to contain an outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus.

(54 minutes, 47 seconds)

(October 2007) One of the world's most respected war correspondents, Kevin Sites spent five years covering global war and disaster for several national networks. His new book, "In the Hot Zone: One Man, One Year, Twenty Wars," chronicles the year he spent as a pioneering Web journalist, posting multimedia dispatches from the world's "hot zones." In the hot zone Kevin met International Rescue Committee staff, whom he has called “unknown soldiers” and whose work he’s praised.

(6 min, 50 sec)