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Human interdependence is increasing and gradually spreading throughout the world. The unity of the human family, embracing people who enjoy equal natural dignity, implies a universal common good. This good calls for an organization of the community of nations able to "provide for the different needs of men; this will involve the sphere of social life to which belong questions of food, hygiene, education, . . . And certain situations arising here and there, as for example . . . Alleviating the miseries of refugees dispersed throughout the world, and assisting migrants and their families."