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 working to move from lottery to predictability so that all those who suffer receive aid.
there are many thousands, potentially tens of thousands, up there in the mountains that are wounded we haven't gotten to.
The government must stop further evictions and be more flexible in allowing shelter and other programs for those affected. It must ensure that beneficiaries are assisted solely on the basis of need.
NATO is planning to increase its operations further, and will work closely with the Pakistan government and the United Nations in this regard.
It is unconscionable that the LRA is carrying out these vicious attacks on unarmed humanitarian worker.
It's like a lottery, where there are 50 victimized groups always trying to get the winning ticket, and they play every night and they lose every night.
Conditions here are totally unacceptable. It has to change because people have to live a better life and have a better future.
Then we could have not only a tsunami-style casualty rate as we have seen late last year, but we could see one hundred times that in a worst case.
Then, we also need to have credible Somali institutions being established inside Somalia and local and regional peace agreements to be brokered.
The number one priority is to get to those who have nothing. If we don't, we will become a disaster within a disaster.
The big non-governmental organizations, the ones with which we work all over the world, understood the value of coordination. The same cannot be said about all the newer players on the ground.
The backdrop is a dramatic one in Zimbabwe, one of the most dramatic in the world. Life expectancy has plummeted from around 63 years in the late 1980s and early 1990s to 33.9 years in 2004. This is a meltdown. This is a nearly halving of life expectancy.
It's like nature strikes back on people who have treated nature badly and we see hundreds of thousands dead after these last two years and hundreds of millions of livelihoods lost.
It's even more urgent than it was in these other hurricanes or tsunamis.