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3. IL SOCCORSO NELLE EMERGENZE Organizzazioni, Linee Guida, Requisiti “2011 saw suffering on an epic-scale. For so many lives to have been thrown into turmoil over so short a space of time means enormous personal cost for all who were affected. We can be grateful only that the international system for protecting such people held firm for the most part and that borders were kept open.” Antoni Gutierres, commissario UNHCR