181 Quotes by Jan Egeland

Somaliland and Somalia at large have been receiving now hundreds of thousands of returnees that they had to accommodate with very small resources.

This is one of the most destructive natural disasters ever measured in the amount of homes destroyed, people affected, people displaced,

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.

This is one of the biggest challenges of our time and age, we need to make vulnerable people living in developing nations more resilient to natural hazards.

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

This appeal, ... is truly forward-looking in that it attempts to avert hunger and at the same time promote sustainable recovery of livelihoods. Investing in prevention will prove much more cost effective than providing emergency assistance year after year.

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.

They were deathtraps, ... We have to build schools all over the world that are not deathtraps, that are earthquake proof.

This is a desperate situation. As you can see we are making progress in the more populated areas but it is so hard to reach the others,