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
Tens of thousands of people's lives are at stake and they could die if we don't get to them in time.
The most important and urgent appeal we have to make is for an immediate cease-fire. Initial reports from the cease-fire talks being held in N'Djamena in Chad are not very encouraging.
But we have not yet decided if and when I will endeavor to go back.
They were deathtraps, ... We have to build schools all over the world that are not deathtraps, that are earthquake proof.
I would say every society in the world is not preparing adequately for catastrophic events.
I have asked NATO, and I will reiterate that appeal: think bold, think big, think creatively.
One of the possibilities we could have is international helicopters operating across the border.
The earthquake in Kashmir afflicting three countries is becoming worse by the day as the extent of the emergency dawns upon us,
behave responsibly and not be utterly irresponsible as they are today.
The whole world has been really shaken and moved by the images of widespread damage and suffering.
I don't know how you evacuate hundreds of thousands of people from the Himalayas -- the most effective military alliance in the world should be able to know that.
It's like nature strikes back on people who have treated nature badly and we see hundreds of thousands dead after these last two years and hundreds of millions of livelihoods lost.
This is a very major earthquake but it's really aggravated a thousand times by the topography. An earthquake is bad anywhere, in the Himalayas it becomes much worse,
The world wakes up when we see images on the TV and when we see children dying,