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
But we have not yet decided if and when I will endeavor to go back.
But certainly the Pakistani army is continuing to look for people.
I would say every society in the world is not preparing adequately for catastrophic events.
I would salute the very effective American efforts to warn the populations of the imminent danger and the very successful evacuation.
If we don't work together we will become a disaster within a disaster.
If we had had this fund, we would have been able to do more earlier.
I did say this was one of the world's neglected emergencies. The victims of the terror are still neglected to a high degree and the situation unabated. We need to do more.
I'd like to say that the United States has been ideal in the way they have responded.
One of the possibilities we could have is international helicopters operating across the border.
So it's a nightmare trying to reach community after community which are homeless, roofless, without food, without water. It is this race against time I fear we are now losing for many of these outlying villages.
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.
My heart goes out to the children of North Korea.
There are many countries in the Gulf and elsewhere who have received an enormous windfall from these oil prices, ... their aid would be much more effective if offered through the United Nations.
We're sending around a hat now, we don't know how much is in the hat when it's coming back - in an emergency situation,