American Refugee Committee

ARC, Land O'Lakes Form Coalition to Help Rebuild Afghanistan
29 Apr 02 | The American Refugee Committee announced today that it had formed a coalition with the International Development Division of Minnesota agricultural cooperative Land O'Lakes and three other groups to help the Afghan people rebuild their country. -...

Hugh Parmer, Former U.S. Humanitarian Aid Official, Named American Refugee Committee President
05 Feb 02 | Hugh Q. Parmer, a former top official of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), has been named president of the American Refugee Committee. ARC is an international humanitarian aid organization that was founded in 1978 to help ...

ARC Steps up Efforts to Help Volcano Victims, Appeals to the Public for Help
22 Jan 02 | The United Nations has assigned ARC responsibility to provide water and sanitation and distribute emergency supplies to up to 100,000 people in the eastern section of Goma. ARC will distribute food provided by the World Food Program along with ...

ARC Assessing Ways To Help Volcano Victims In Congo
17 Jan 02 | The American Refugee Committee evacuated its staff from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) today after a volcano erupted nearby and is assessing ways it can help victims of the disaster. ARC will expand its program there to help the volcano ...

ARC Named One Of America's 100 Best Charities
05 Dec 01 | The American Refugee Committee, an international humanitarian aid organization with headquarters in Minneapolis, has been named one of "America's 100 Best Charities" by Worth Magazine in its December 2001 issue. ARC was founded in 1978 to help ...

ARC President Kozlowski To Step Down
10 Jul 01 | Anthony Kozlowski, President and CEO of the American Refugee Committee, has announced that he plans to step down on his 10th anniversary with ARC in June 2002. "When Tony joined ARC in 1992, we had a strong base of operations in Southeast Asia ...

ARC Launches Appeal for Humanitarian Emergency in Liberia
11 May 01 | The American Refugee Committee has launched an emergency appeal for money to help tens of thousands of people in northern Liberia who have been forced by fighting to flee for their lives. Desperate Liberians from Lofa County are moving south by ...

ARC Provides Emergency Shelter to Macedonian Refugees
30 Mar 01 | The American Refugee Committee (ARC), responding to the latest outbreak of ethnic conflict in the Balkans, is providing emergency shelter to refugees who have fled into Kosovo to escape fighting in Macedonia. ARC is expanding its existing shelter...

ARC Expresses Sorrow Over Death of Staff Member in Guinea
12 Dec 00 | The American Refugee Committee (ARC) expresses deep sorrow over the death of one of its staff members during fighting in the West African country of Guinea. The latest fighting in Guinea has forced ARC to suspend its operations in Gueckedou, ...

As Serbia's Doors Open, ARC Urges Donors To Help Its Refugees
06 Oct 00 | As Serbia moved towards a new era on Friday, the American Refugee Committee (ARC) urged donors to step up efforts to help the more than 700,000 refugees and displaced persons who continue to live in dire conditions in Yugoslavia. ARC operates a ...

ARC Suspends Activities in Guinea Following Armed Raid
19 Sep 00 | The American Refugee Committee has suspended its activities in Gueckedou, Guinea, following an armed raid in the region on Sunday that took the lives of a United Nations staff member and an unknown number of Guineans. ARC, which began working in ...

American Refugee Committee Suspends Operations in West Timor
06 Sep 00 | The American Refugee Committee (ARC) has suspended its operations in West Timor, Indonesia, and evacuated its expatriate staff, following the killings of three United Nations staff members there. The deaths occurred when pro-Indonesian militia ...

ARC President and Indonesian Head of State Discuss Urgent Needs of Nearly 800,000 Displaced Persons
01 Aug 00 | American Refugee Committee President Anthony Kozlowski met with Indonesian President Abdurrahman Wahid in Jakarta to discuss the urgent needs of nearly 800,000 people displaced throughout Indonesia due to ethnic, religious and political conflict. ...

ARC To Launch Projects To Help Displaced People in Serbia and Montenegro
13 Jul 00 | The American Refugee Committee (ARC) is poised to step up its efforts to help displaced people in Serbia and Montenegro return to their homes with support from the U.S. Bureau of Population, Refugees and Migration (BPRM). BPRM has agreed to ...

Experts Outline Challenges Facing Humanitarian Aid Community
11 Jul 00 | Growing ethnic tensions, new infectious diseases, inadequate protection of internally displaced persons and politicization of humanitarian aid are among the challenges facing relief organizations in the post-Cold War era, a panel of experts told ...

ARC Country Director Returns to Freetown
15 Jun 00 | The American Refugee Committee's country director for Sierra Leone, Martha Saldinger, has returned to Freetown to continue setting up a program to help victims of the country's brutal civil war. The American Refugee Committee is an international ...

American Refugee Committee Evacuates Sierra Leone Country Director
12 May 00 | The American Refugee Committee (ARC) has evacuated its country director for Sierra Leone due to increasing instability in the West African nation. The American Refugee Committee is an international nonprofit, nonsectarian organization providing ...

American Refugee Committee Urges More Help for Rwanda
05 Apr 00 | ARC has been working in Rwanda since 1994, when it helped to rebuild the health infrastructure to serve returning refugees. ARC now operates in the Gihembe Refugee Camp in Byumba Prefecture, which houses Tutsi refugees from the Democratic ...

Kosovo One Year Later: American Refugee Committee Concerned About Hardships, Increasing Instability
24 Mar 00 | The American Refugee Committee (ARC) expressed concern today about the hundreds of thousands of people who remain uprooted, many in perilous conditions, one year after NATO launched its 78-day air strike campaign against Yugoslavia. Kozlowski ...

Genocide Trial a Reminder of Bosnia's Displaced People
13 Mar 00 | The American Refugee Committee today urged the international community to remember the people of the Bosnian town of Srebrenica as a genocide trial unfolds at the International War Crimes Tribunal in The Hague. ARC's "Assistance to the Women of ...