Quotes by Jan Egeland - Page 1

It's a cruel reality. But after a week, very few people survive.
Jan Egeland / Politician
People
Reality
Week
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No amount of humanitarian assistance can protect people from being attacked.
Jan Egeland / Politician
Assistance
Humanitarian
People
Protect
Attacked
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First there is the search and rescue phase that is now ending. It is a cruel reality.
Jan Egeland / Politician
Firsts
Phases
Reality
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Climate change disasters will displace more and more. Those who are most exposed are the poorest.
Jan Egeland / Politician
Change
Climate
Disaster
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In the Horn of Africa now, there are tens of thousands dying from the extreme vulnerability they are living in.
Jan Egeland / Politician
Dying
Horn Of Africa
Horns
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Many access roads are too dangerous for relief workers, preventing them from carrying out assessments or reaching people in need.
Jan Egeland / Politician
Assessment
People
Relief
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I think now Somalia is turning a corner and we can, with the new political development, build on momentum - really build a peaceful future.
Jan Egeland / Politician
Peaceful
Political
Thinking
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Somaliland and Somalia at large have been receiving now hundreds of thousands of returnees that they had to accommodate with very small resources.
Jan Egeland / Politician
Receiving
Resources
Somalia
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I have been working, as emergency relief coordinator, on an international scale, very hard to build a wider alliance of partners in assistance efforts.
Jan Egeland / Politician
Alliances
Assistance
Coordinator
Effort
International
Partners
Relief
Alliance
Scale
Efforts
Emergency
Wider
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I think the biggest challenge for Somalia has been the sense that it is a hopeless case of incomprehensible internal conflicts and there is nothing we can do.
Jan Egeland / Politician
Challenges
Hopeless
Somalia
Thinking
Biggest Challenge
Conflicts
Incomprehensible
Internal
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We estimate that humanitarian agencies have access to about 350,000 vulnerable people in Darfur - only about one third of the estimated total population in need.
Jan Egeland / Politician
Access
Agency
Darfur
People
Population
Vulnerable
Agencies
Total
Estimate
Third
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Secondly, the Government of Sudan should commit to the disarmament and control of the Janjaweed militia and ensure that the targeting of civilians ceases immediately.
Jan Egeland / Politician
Government
Civilians
Commit
Disarmament
Should
Sudan
Ceases
Ensure
Immediately
Secondly
Targeting
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Our assistance in Somalia has been remarkably effective and successful, and we have helped with very small resources - a large group of people and we can now do even more.
Jan Egeland / Politician
Assistance
Resources
Somalia
Effective
Helped
People Group More
Large Group
Remarkably
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In a world full of competing emergencies and disasters, it really helps if there is an international locomotive that can help us bring attention - help us bring resources.
Jan Egeland / Politician
Attention
Competing
Emergencies
International
Resources
World
Disasters
Helps
Locomotive
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I think now, we in the international community are belatedly wanting to show our solidarity with the Somali peoples and also do our best to help them move to better times.
Jan Egeland / Politician
Community
International
International Community
Moving
Solidarity
Thinking
Wanting
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We receive reports now on a daily basis from our own people on the ground in Darfur on widespread atrocities and grave violations of human rights against the civilian population.
Jan Egeland / Politician
Atrocities
Human Rights
People
Population
Reports
Rights
Basis
Civilian
Daily
Daily Basis
Grave
Widespread
Receive
Violations
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The most important and urgent appeal we have to make is for an immediate cease-fire. Initial reports from the cease-fire talks being held in N'Djamena in Chad are not very encouraging.
Jan Egeland / Politician
Encouraging
Chad
Reports
Urgent
Appeal
Held
Immediate
Initial
Talks
The Most Important
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We need better coordination on the international side, just as they need better and more effective efforts on the Somali side. We have too many reconstruction and development assistance plans.
Jan Egeland / Politician
Assistance
Coordination
Development
Effort
International
Needs
Plans
Reconstruction
Somali
Effective
Efforts
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Although we have do not have adequate access to all parts of Darfur we do fortunately have humanitarian personnel, including staff from my own office, in each of the three provincial capitals of Darfur.
Jan Egeland / Politician
Access
Adequate
Darfur
Including
Office
Personnel
Staff
Three
Although
Fortunately
Parts
Provincial
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Hezbollah must stop this cowardly blending in among women and children. I heard they were making statements that they were proud of losing fewer armed men than civilians. It's hard to see how they could be proud of such a situation.
Jan Egeland / Politician
Men
Children
Hezbollah
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Finally, I am encouraged to note that the Security Council issued a statement today expressing its concern about the massive humanitarian crisis in Darfur and calling on all parties to the conflict to protect civilians and reach a ceasefire.
Jan Egeland / Politician
Calling
Ceasefire
Civilians
Concern
Conflict
Council
Crisis
Darfur
Massive
Party
Protect
Security Council
Encouraged
Expressing
Finally
Note
Parties
Statement
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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.
Jan Egeland / Politician
Active
Agency
Great Work
International
Recognition
Somalia
Staff
Years
Work Great Great Work
Agencies
Finally
Large
Local
Ngos
Un
Undertaken
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It is only the Somalis themselves - and I don't hide that fact when I meet the political leaders here - they themselves have to stop their old practices of fighting each other every time they have a problem. They have to learn how to do peaceful conflict resolution.
Jan Egeland / Politician
Conflict
Fighting
Leader
Peaceful
Political Leaders
Practice
Resolution
Every Time
Hide
Leaders
Practices
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We are also assisting the refugees who have fled across the border to Chad. As many of them have been subject to attacks by militia crossing from Sudan, UNHCR is mounting a major logistical operation to establish camps and transfer refugees away from the border zone.
Jan Egeland / Politician
Assisting
Camps
Chad
Sudan
Zone
Attacks
Crossing
Border
Establish
Logistical
Mounting
Operation
Refugees
Subject
Transfer
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Increasingly gang violence and organized crime, together with climate change-driven natural disasters, are displacing more people as wars are fewer on the continent and political violence has decreased considerably, the NRC has decided to treat this as a humanitarian crisis.
Jan Egeland / Politician
Change
War
People
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Consistently, from the Hezbollah heartland, my message was that Hezbollah must stop this cowardly blending ... among women and children," . "I heard they were proud because they lost very few fighters and that it was the civilians bearing the brunt of this. I don't think anyone should be proud of having many more children and women dead than armed men.
Jan Egeland / Politician
Men
Children
Thinking
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