Advocating for the rights and protection of all forcibly displaced people.

Refugee, Asylum, and Humanitarian Protection Advocacy Days

RCUSA Advocacy Days establish, maintain, and build relationships with key congressional offices to activate bipartisan support for humanitarian programs and lay the foundation for directly impacted leaders to advocate in their own communities.

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The Refugee Storytellers Collective

RCUSA collaborates with the Refugee Advocacy Lab and other partners to amplify The Refugee Storytellers Collective, which involves individuals from across the U.S. with lived expertise in forced displacement to share their perspectives, build community through storytelling, and strengthen support for refugee, asylum, and immigration protections through education and advocacy opportunities.

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The International Refugee Integration and Settlement Exchange

IRISE is a civil society initiative that fosters connections and collaboration across international borders involved in supporting refugee resettlement and integration.

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Annual Consultations on Resettlement and Complimentary Pathways (CRCP)

Every year, RCUSA joins the annual CRCP convening in Geneva. The conference is a multilateral forum convened by UNHCR and brings together UN Member States, civil society, international organizations, academia, private sector actors, and refugees and those with lived experience of forced displacement to shape and strengthen global policies on resettlement and complementary pathways.

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RCUSA's 2025 Impact Report

Read the full Refugee Council USA 2025 Impact Report to learn more about our accomplishments as we look toward the future of this critical work.

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Over 123 million people have been forcibly displaced from their homes due to violence, persecution, or disaster. It will take global and local action to offer safety and stability to all.

RCUSA and its member organizations mobilizes expertise, ideas, and influence to protect the rights of forcibly displaced people and build more welcoming communities. RCUSA envisions a just world in which people forced to flee their homes have agency, access to safety, and opportunity to thrive.

RCUSA celebrates its 25th anniversary of advocacy, unity, and resilience.

Despite the challenges we face today, RCUSA is committed to building more just, welcoming communities where all people, regardless of where they come from, have the safety, agency, and opportunity to thrive. RCUSA unites a coalition rooted in equity, community, and belonging, and is committed to uplifting the voices of those with lived experience of forced displacement. Thank you to our member organizations, refugee leaders, donors, and volunteers whose unwavering commitment has made this work possible- for the past 25 years and for the next 25 years!

Working in coalition for excellence in welcome.

RCUSA is a coalition of more than forty US-based non-profit organizations supporting and protecting the rights of forcibly displaced people.
Our work focuses on advocacy, strategic communications, and programmatic coordination.