181 Quotes by Jan Egeland

If we don't work together we will become a disaster within a disaster.

They will now have their sixth, seventh night out in the cold. Perhaps even without a tent. They will also not have water because their spring is gone,

If we had had this fund, we would have been able to do more earlier.

This is a very major earthquake but it's really aggravated a thousand times by the topography. An earthquake is bad anywhere, in the Himalayas it becomes much worse,

I did say this was one of the world's neglected emergencies. The victims of the terror are still neglected to a high degree and the situation unabated. We need to do more.

I'd like to say that the United States has been ideal in the way they have responded.

It's no good saving people today just to see them killed tomorrow. They need help to escape the vicious cycle they find themselves in.

I am again appealing for the eviction campaign to stop, there is not enough shelter ready to house those who have been evicted.

It's really been a terrible year in terms of suffering and in terms of challenges. But it ends with a glimmer of hope.