International Rescue Committee Issues Remarks at Stockholm Human Rights Award
November 04, 2019
November 04, 2019
NEW YORK, Nov. 4 -- The International Rescue Committee issued the following remarks by President and CEO David Miliband at Human Rights Award:
"I am delighted to accept this award, with humility and gratitude, on behalf of 13,000 IRC staff and 15,000 volunteers working in more than 40 countries and 190 field sites around the world. The nutrition worker in Juba, South Sudan; the child protection worker in Raqqa, Syria; the gender-based violence responder in Helmand, Afghanistan; . . .
"I am delighted to accept this award, with humility and gratitude, on behalf of 13,000 IRC staff and 15,000 volunteers working in more than 40 countries and 190 field sites around the world. The nutrition worker in Juba, South Sudan; the child protection worker in Raqqa, Syria; the gender-based violence responder in Helmand, Afghanistan; . . .