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 have received more pledges in the past week than we have in six months. But it is too late for some of these children.
It's a cruel reality. But after a week, very few people survive.
I think it's a matter of weeks or months that we will have a collapse in many of our operations. As I told the Security Council today, I don't think the world has understood how bad it has become of late.
The insecurity in Sri Lanka has claimed over 100 lives in recent weeks with increasing civilian casualties.
In the second week you will see much more orderly relief. The first week is always pretty chaotic.
This has never ever happened before, that two weeks after a disaster that we have $717 million that we can spend on the immediate emergency effort.
I've never seen such devastation before. We are in the sixth day of operation, and every day the scale of devastation is getting wider.
The secretary general said it may take as much as five to ten years. We hope it will take much less time.
The United Nations stands ready to help with any kind of disaster expertise that might be required ... in full recognition that the United States is the country in the world that possesses the greatest civilian and military search and rescue and recovery assets themselves,
The United Nations is grateful for the additional pledges so far of 525 million dollars to the assistance efforts in northern Pakistan.
The world wakes up when we see images on the TV and when we see children dying,
The world's response to the tsunami was the best ever. Governments, the private sector, and individuals around the world opened their hearts and their wallets. Private donations for the tsunami eclipsed anything seen before.
The world's response to the tsunami was the best ever.
The whole world has been really shaken and moved by the images of widespread damage and suffering.