Satellites (and windmills) propel UNHCR effort to get food and assistance where it's needed.(includes related articles)(Office of UN High Commissioner for Refugees) From: UN Chronicle | Date: September 22, 1998 | COPYRIGHT 1998 United Nations Publications. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

The UNHCR depends on communications equipment to coordinate its activities and communicate with its more than 4,000 workers assigned in the field. To improve its communications capability, it employed new technologies, such as Very Small Aperture Satellite terminals and ultra-high frequency systems.

Humanitarian tragedies such as that in the Great Lakes region of Africa are well-known to the general public who are informed of such disasters via images and footage from journalists ...

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