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“To have any chance of keeping below 1.5 degrees of global warming, we need to value the services that healthy forests can provide” –

The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative (HHI) published a joint discussion paper: "Engaging with people affected by armed conflicts and other situations of violence: Recommendations for humanitarian organizations and donors in the digital era".

How Internet and Mobile Connectivity can Improve Refugee Well-Being and Transform Humanitarian Action. Connectivity has the potential to transform how we communicate, the way in which we respond to the protection needs of displaced people, and our delivery of humanitarian services. Most significantly, better connectivity can promote self-reliance by broadening the opportunities for refugees to improve their own lives.

"Despite all that they had endured, one of them told me, upon landing on the Greek island of Lesbos, that they had panicked only once during that perilous voyage: When their mobile phone signal disappeared. That signal, however weak, had been the refugees’ only link to the outside world. When it vanished — when they truly had no way to contact family, friends, or anyone who could help them — they were gripped by a sense of isolation and fear more intense than they had ever experienced. It is a feeling no one should have to endure ever again."

"We believe refugees and the communities that host them should have the right, and the choice, to be included in a connected society, and to be able to leverage the benefits and opportunities of digital technologies, to build better futures for themselves and their families."

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