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
It could end tomorrow. It's as serious as that.
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.
It is, in my view, not right to sit with reconstruction money for one year from now if we're not sure whether those people will be alive one year from now.
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.
Our assistance in Somalia has been remarkably effective and successful, and we have helped with very small resources - a large group of people and we can now do even more.
Past agricultural policies have not been good. Governments understand they must be providing long-term solutions.
If it continues to be so dangerous to do humanitarian work, we may not be able to sustain our operations for 2.5 million people,
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,
The people of Zimbabwe are suffering under several big problems. I am hopeful that we will have a more positive partnership in 2006 than we have had in the past.
Many families are still not in permanent housing and now it's rainy season,
It's no good saving people today just to see them killed tomorrow. They need help to escape the vicious cycle they find themselves in.
It's really been a terrible year in terms of suffering and in terms of challenges. But it ends with a glimmer of hope.
The insecurity in Sri Lanka has claimed over 100 lives in recent weeks with increasing civilian casualties.