181 Quotes by Jan Egeland

It is unconscionable that the LRA is carrying out these vicious attacks on unarmed humanitarian worker.

We have received zero pledges for this appeal,

It's like a lottery, where there are 50 victimized groups always trying to get the winning ticket, and they play every night and they lose every night.

The problem with tsunamis is that it takes hours -- or minutes -- for this wall of water to come, and there's just very, very little time.

It's like nature strikes back on people who have treated nature badly and we see hundreds of thousands dead after these last two years and hundreds of millions of livelihoods lost.

We have health kits and school-in-a-box kits that are tailored for immediate use for people that are displace by emergencies, and when such requests come we will answer immediately.

Conditions here are totally unacceptable. It has to change because people have to live a better life and have a better future.

There are many countries in the Gulf and elsewhere who have received an enormous windfall from these oil prices, ... their aid would be much more effective if offered through the United Nations.

Then we could have not only a tsunami-style casualty rate as we have seen late last year, but we could see one hundred times that in a worst case.