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 are trying now to move from saving lives in daily food distribution to doing agricultural work: livestock, water and irrigation recovery projects.
Had there been better prevention, better early warning, better schools, earthquake-safe buildings - tens of thousands of lives would have been saved both in the Indian Ocean tsunami and in the South Asian earthquake,
More is currently at stake in terms of lives saved or lost in Africa than on any other continent. As humanitarian workers, we cannot accept that so many lives are lost every year on this continent to preventable diseases, neglect and senseless brutality.
Tens of thousands of people's lives are at stake and they could die if we don't get to them in time.
Nowhere else on earth is so much at stake as in Africa. It is here where most lives are at stake.
We need more resources to save 2 million to 3 million lives and we need much more resources in the next few days.
In terms of the human lives lost, this is the greatest humanitarian crisis in the world today. It is beyond belief that the world is not paying more attention.
The insecurity in Sri Lanka has claimed over 100 lives in recent weeks with increasing civilian casualties.
It is not slow. The first three or four days there weren't even (open) roads here,
It is not right to sit with the money for reconstruction for one year from now if it is a question of whether people will still be alive.
People are dying as we speak because we're not there in all of these villages where there are wounded people.
We estimate that humanitarian agencies have access to about 350,000 vulnerable people in Darfur - only about one third of the estimated total population in need.
Over the last few days, the world has finally woken up, but it took graphic images of dying children for this to happen,
Our biggest concern now is that we will have tremendous bottlenecks. Every day there are 60 to 100 trucks coming in from all over Pakistan.