Jan Egeland
Jan Egeland
Jan Egelandis a Norwegian politician, formerly of the Labour party. He has been the Secretary General of the Norwegian Refugee Council since August 2013. He was previously the Deputy Director of Human Rights Watch and the Director of Human Rights Watch Europe. Egeland formerly served as director of the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs and Under-Secretary-General of the UN. Egeland also holds a post as Professor II at the University of Stavanger...
NationalityNorwegian
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth12 September 1957
CountryNorway
We, as internationals, deal with mass natural disasters around the globe a number of times a year, so we have well-tested systems which have now been appreciated by many of these U.S. agencies.
We are working to move from lottery to predictability so that all those who suffer receive aid.
there are many thousands, potentially tens of thousands, up there in the mountains that are wounded we haven't gotten to.
This will help energize further the struggle to reach the earthquake stricken communities in the Himalayas.
We need helicopters because the roads are gone,
This would mean the saving of hundreds of thousands and millions of livelihoods.
We did well in the emergency phase, ... But the reconstruction went slower than we had hoped.
We are humanitarian workers, we are apolitical, impartial. We hope to be successful in our dialogue (with Pyongyang) so we can have a phased end to the program.
We are humanitarians, we don't know how to evacuate hundreds of thousands of people in the Himalayas. But the most efficient military alliance in the world should be able to.
We still are not reaching all below the snow line.
We're doing too little combined as an international community because it's too vast. We have 140,000 tents now in the area. Normally, that is more than enough for even large-scale emergencies. This is probably only one-fourth of what is needed.
The point here is it could have been avoided. It didn't have to reach these proportions.
We are losing a race against the clock in the small villages,
We stand by the report. The eviction campaign was the worst possible thing at the worst possible moment. ... The important thing now is to look to the future. We have to help these people.