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
The secretary general said it may take as much as five to ten years. We hope it will take much less time.
probably be many billions of dollars. However, we cannot fathom the cost of these poor societies and the nameless fishermen and fishing villages that have just been wiped out.
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.
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.
I am again appealing for the eviction campaign to stop, there is not enough shelter ready to house those who have been evicted.
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.
One of the possibilities we could have is international helicopters operating across the border.
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.