Category Archives: Worldwide

Humanitarians warn the impact of fighting in Mosul could be devastating. Islamic Relief’s team on the ground, leading a £500,000 response plan, says civilians who manage to escape the city may be subjected to screening and possible detention or onward travel to camps for displaced people. Those staying in the city under siege are likely [...]

Islamic Relief joins forces with UN Women, the global champion for gender equality, to strengthen joint work on empowering women in the Muslim world. UN Women executive director Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka and the chief executive officer of Islamic Relief Worldwide, Naser Haghamed, officially launched a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) in the United Arab Emirates on 19 [...]

Intensive airstrikes in Aleppo leave 184 dead Two days of intensive airstrikes in Aleppo has left 184 people dead in the last 48 hours and prompted a desperate plea from one of Islamic Relief Syria’s key aid workers on the ground to pause hostilities and allow aid workers to protect civilians. “It’s not even possible […]

An Islamic Relief worker describes the difficulties on the ground. After an air strike hit a convoy of relief trucks near Aleppo this week Islamic Relief’s field coordinator, Yousef Abdollah, has been speaking with the BBC’s World Service. The only person speaking from Syria, Abdollah joined other NGOs for a panel discussion on the programme […]

Islamic Relief Worldwide’s annual report for 2015 has been published today, detailing our income, expenditure and the projects we undertook to help 8.3 million people across the globe.     2015 was a complex and challenging year, one in which we witnessed the worst refugee crisis since the Second World War, while conflict continued to […]

The UN Summit for Refugees and Migrants (read our quick guide here) is a watershed moment for refugees all over the world. Here and now, heads of state must commit to the protection of refugees and to the establishment of a more humane, coordinated and predictable response to hosting refugees and supporting their long-term resilience. […]