Click here to listen to IRAP's Director Becca Heller discuss the plight of Afghan interpreters for the U.S. military whose lives are at risk while they endure years of visa... read more →
An article featuring IRAP appeared on the front page of today's Washington Post, pushing the U.S. government to implement the visa program necessary to protect the Afghan interpreters who risked... read more →
A BBC documentary piece describing the plight of hunted LGBT Iraqis also featured an interview with IRAP Director Becca Heller about IRAP's efforts in the region, and ways that the... read more →
IRAP Director Becca Heller and other advocates met with the Deputy National Security Advisor to discuss the "dramatic" slowing of the resettlement of Iraqi refugees, a USA Today story reports. In 2009, two Iraqi... read more →
Becca Heller, IRAP's co-founder and director, spoke briefly with the Washington Examiner about why IRAP was created, what IRAP does, and what she's working on now. Here's a short excerpt from... read more →
The Christian Science Monitor acknowledges the achievements and promise of the Iraqi Refugee Assistance Project, and the innovative, tenacious spirit of IRAP co-founder and director Becca Heller, committed to finding... read more →
In an op-ed appearing in today's Boston Herald, the authors outline the immediate steps that the Obama administration should take to fix a broken SIV admissions system and make good on... read more →
Yesterday on "Here & Now" NPR interviewed Alaa, who worked for western media organizations in Baghdad and who now works with the Iraqi Refugee Assistance Project in New York, and... read more →
Michael Breen, Iraqi Refugee Assistance Project co-founder and veteran of Iraq and Afghanistan, reminds us today in the Guardian that as we welcome the homecoming of our soldiers in Iraq,... read more →
An Iraqi translator for U.S. forces whose first name is Tariq describes his move away from the relative safety of his military base in anticipation of U.S. troop withdrawal, and... read more →