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The story starts from the fact that not only is Congo notable for being the world's worst ongoing humanitarian crisis, but it is also home to some of the largest international peacebuilding efforts in the world.
And we know that answer because of the extraordinary work of an incredible group of NGOs, of governments, of local leaders, of U.N. agencies and many humanitarian and other organizations that came and joined the fight to try and stop Ebola in West Africa.
Civic tech is sometimes referred to as tech for good, using technology to solve humanitarian problems.
For me, they were colleagues belonging to that community of humanitarian aid workers that tried to bring a bit of comfort to the victims of the wars in Chechnya in the '90s.
As humanitarian aid workers, they made the choice to be at the side of the victim, to provide some assistance, some comfort, some protection, but when they needed protection themselves, it wasn't there.
We are not perfect, we are not superior, we are not the world's fire brigade, we are not superheroes, we don't stop wars, we know that humanitarian response is not a substitute for political solution.
Many young humanitarian workers go through their first experience with a lot of bitterness.
Humanitarian aid workers know the risk they are taking in conflict areas or in post-conflict environments, yet our life, our job, is becoming increasingly life-threatening, and the sanctity of our life is fading.
Do you know that since the millennium, the number of attacks on humanitarian aid workers has tripled?
Until the beginning of the civil war in Somalia in the late '80s, humanitarian aid workers were sometimes victims of what we call collateral damages, but by and large we were not the target of these attacks.
Humanitarian principles are tested, questioned, and often ignored, but perhaps more importantly, we have abandoned the search for justice.
There seems to be no consequence whatsoever for attacks against humanitarian aid workers.
There was no justice for any of the humanitarian aid workers killed or abducted in Chechnya between '95 and '99, and it's the same all over the world.
Attacks on humanitarian aid workers are war crimes in international law.
We must consider that those attacks against humanitarian aid workers are attacks against humanity itself.
I call on you to remember their dedication and demand that humanitarian aid workers around the world be better protected.
We need to combine all the instruments and to understand that today, in protracted situations, at a certain moment, that it doesn't make sense anymore to make a distinction between humanitarian aid and development aid or development processes.
You are talking about things that require a long-term perspective, a development perspective and not only an emergency humanitarian aid perspective.
And all too often, they aren't permitted to enter the work force and are fully dependent on humanitarian aid.
How has the situation come to this, that we've adopted such an inhumane response to a humanitarian crisis?
Rather than seeing refugees as inevitably dependent upon humanitarian assistance, we need to provide them with opportunities for human flourishing.
The fourth idea I want to put to you is of humanitarian visas.
If refugees were simply allowed to travel directly and seek asylum in Europe, we would avoid that, and there's a way of doing that through something called a humanitarian visa, that allows people to collect a visa at an embassy or a consulate in a neighboring country and then simply pay their own way through a ferry or a flight to Europe.
Brazil has adopted a pioneering approach where over 2,000 Syrians have been able to get humanitarian visas, enter Brazil, and claim refugee status on arrival in Brazil.
I was part of a team that was tasked with trying to figure out how best to respond to this humanitarian catastrophe.
Regular contributions like monthly contributions are a far more effective way of giving, because they allow humanitarian organizations to properly plan and be invested over the long term, and to be present in the lives of families who have been affected by war, wars that many of us, frankly, all too quickly forget.
They end up relying on humanitarian agencies, which is insufficient and unsustainable, especially when injuries require lifelong support to the injured.
It's a coming of age for bringing data into the humanitarian world.
We need the data people from humanitarian organizations leading the way, and orchestrating just the right types of engagements with academics, with governments.
But even if the floodgates opened up, and even if all companies donated their data to academics, to NGOs, to humanitarian organizations, it wouldn't be enough to harness that full impact of data for humanitarian goals.
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