Jan Egeland Quotes

• 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

  Attention, World, Emergencies

  IRIN Interview, www.irinnews.org. December 9, 2004.

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• No amount of humanitarian assistance can protect people from being attacked.

  Jan Egeland

  People, Humanitarian, Protect

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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

  Assessment, People, Relief

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• First there is the search and rescue phase that is now ending. It is a cruel reality.

  Jan Egeland

  Reality, Phases, Firsts

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• Climate change disasters will displace more and more. Those who are most exposed are the poorest.

  Jan Egeland

  Change, Climate, Disaster

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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

  Change, War, People

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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

  Thinking, Challenges, Hopeless

  IRIN Interview, www.irinnews.org. December 9, 2004.

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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

  Effort, Relief, Alliances

  IRIN Interview, www.irinnews.org. December 9, 2004.

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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

  Children, Men, Hezbollah

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• It's a cruel reality. But after a week, very few people survive.

  Jan Egeland

  Reality, People, Week

  "Pakistan Ends Search for Quake Survivors". www.foxnews.com. October 14, 2005.

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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

  Thinking, Political, Peaceful

  IRIN Interview, www.irinnews.org. December 9, 2004.

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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

  Moving, Thinking, Community

  "Interview with Jan Egeland, UN USG for Humanitarian Affairs". IRIN Interview, www.irinnews.org. December 9, 2004.

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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

  Office, Three, Adequate

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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

  Agency, People, Population

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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

  Fighting, Practice, Leader

  "Interview with Jan Egeland, UN USG for Humanitarian Affairs". Interview with Jan Egeland, www.irinnews.org. December 9, 2004.

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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

  Children, Men, Thinking

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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

  Effort, Needs, Development

  IRIN Interview, www.irinnews.org. December 9, 2004.

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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

  Rights, People, Atrocities

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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

  Receiving, Somalia, Resources

  IRIN Interview, www.irinnews.org. December 9, 2004.

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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

  Government, Should, Disarmament

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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

  Party, Calling, Ceasefire

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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

  Dying, Horn Of Africa, Horns

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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

  Agency, Years, Recognition

  "Interview with Jan Egeland, UN USG for Humanitarian Affairs". IRIN Interview, www.irinnews.org. December 9, 2004.

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