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 will be a marathon sprint throughout the winter where we have to do lifesaving assistance until the snow melts sometime in April.
It will take billions of dollars to rebuild ... To reconstruct this will take five to 10 years,
The world is really coming together here in a way we probably have never seen before.
The world is not doing enough. We should be able to do this.
They are in a desperate situation. We need more helicopters to reach them. We need more helicopters soon. Those who have given helicopters, thank you. Others, give us more.
That had been one of our fears. I think it has not been the case.
It's by far the biggest humanitarian catastrophe of the Western hemisphere, and yet the plight of these people remains a largely untold story.
It is the first, crude way to get food there. It is not, however, a good way to get water and medicine distributed.
We have received more pledges in the past week than we have in six months. But it is too late for some of these children.
We have received credible reports that show a clear and consistent pattern: entire villages are looted, burned down and sometimes bombed. Large numbers of civilians have been killed and scores of women and children have been abducted, raped and tortured.
We have reason to fear that 2006 could be as bad as 2005.
We have received zero pledges for this appeal,
The problem with tsunamis is that it takes hours -- or minutes -- for this wall of water to come, and there's just very, very little time.
Finally, I also come in recognition of the great work that has been undertaken by the NGOs and UN agencies that have been active for many years here, especially through the local staff and international staff here in Somaliland and in Somalia at large.