Islamic Relief Canada works with communities to strengthen their resilience to calamities, and we provide vital emergency aid when disasters occur. We help the impoverished access basic services, including education, water and sanitation, as well as healthcare. We provide lasting routes out of poverty through our sustainable development schemes. Our integrated approach to progress is transforming communities worldwide.
[Islamic Relief Canada welcomes] today's loud and clear message from the UN General Assembly that Israel’s occupation of Palestinian territory is unlawful and must end within 12 months.
September 10th, 2024 – Today, Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly held a press conference where she stated, "We will not have any arms or parts of arms be sent to Gaza. Period."
29 August, 2024 Islamic Relief has begun delivering food aid to disaster affected communities in Bangladesh after heavy flooding displaced 284,888 people in the country, killing 18, and has impacted at least 4.9 million people, causing widespread suffering.
29 August, 2024 Islamic Relief Canada condemns the actions of the Israeli military over the last two days in what has been the largest attack on the occupied West Bank in 20 years. Soldiers, fighter jets, and drones have attacked Palestinians in West Bank areas of Jenin, Tulkarm and Tubas leaving a trail of death and destruction.
26 August, 2024 500 days of war has turned Sudan into the world’s biggest hunger crisis and starvation is spreading across the country, Islamic Relief is warning.
1 August, 2024
29 years ago on July 11, 1995 the people of #Srebrenica, Bosnia witnessed a horrifying genocide. This is the worst tragedy in Europe since the second world war.
June 25 2024 Israel is systematically starving Palestinians in Gaza, Islamic Relief Canada says as a new IPC* report shows that around half a million people are suffering catastrophic levels of hunger and almost everyone in Gaza is facing acute food shortages.
June 4, 2024