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
They will now have their sixth, seventh night out in the cold. Perhaps even without a tent. They will also not have water because their spring is gone,
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,
behave responsibly and not be utterly irresponsible as they are today.
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.
I am very worried about it, ... Late Edition with Wolf Blitzer.
I fear we are losing the race against the clock in the small villages ... I've never seen such devastation before.
In the second week you will see much more orderly relief. The first week is always pretty chaotic.
In the pipeline we have 10,000 tents and 100,000 blankets but it takes time to go to these areas.
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 goal of the fund is simple: to provide aid workers with funding to jump-start lifesaving relief operations .
The earthquake in Kashmir afflicting three countries is becoming worse by the day as the extent of the emergency dawns upon us,
The coast is low, it takes the full blast of the tsunami which was at its highest at that point, and now the villages are gone,
The concept is one warm room per family before it becomes too cold.
The important thing is that we give and that we as citizens also demand that our countries give generously to those who have been so hard hit.