No amount of humanitarian assistance can protect people from being attacked. - Jan Egeland Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
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It will be a marathon sprint throughout the winter where we have to do lifesaving assistance until the snow melts sometime in April. - Jan Egeland Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
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 Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
We must be acutely aware that all that has been built up by the thousands of relief workers and hundreds of millions of dollars in donor contributions could be destroyed, and we could be on the brink of losing this huge humanitarian operation. - Jan Egeland Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
The humanitarian situation in Zimbabwe is very serious. The need for international aid is big and growing. - Jan Egeland Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
North American pets get more investment per month than we have money for all our humanitarian operations in the world. - Jan Egeland Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
They are in a desperate situation. We need more helicopters to reach them. We need more helicopters soon. Those who have given helicopters, thank you. Others, give us more. - Jan Egeland Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
It's by far the biggest humanitarian catastrophe of the Western hemisphere, and yet the plight of these people remains a largely untold story. - Jan Egeland Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
We must end this tyranny of silence. - Jan Egeland Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
In the Horn of Africa now, there are tens of thousands dying from the extreme vulnerability they are living in. - Jan Egeland Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
It is unconscionable that the LRA is carrying out these vicious attacks on unarmed humanitarian worker. - Jan Egeland Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
We are humanitarians, we don't know how to evacuate hundreds of thousands of people in the Himalayas. But the most efficient military alliance in the world should be able to. - Jan Egeland Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
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 Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
I would salute the very effective American efforts to warn the populations of the imminent danger and the very successful evacuation. - Jan Egeland Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
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 Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
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 Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
I think in many ways we can some up now the one year anniversary of this terrible natural disaster that the emergency relief went better than we feared but the reconstruction and rebuilding is taking more time than we hoped. There was no second wave of death and disease as was feared but too many people have their first anniversary in the same tent they were given in the first months. - Jan Egeland Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
More is currently at stake in terms of lives saved or lost in Africa than on any other continent. As humanitarian workers, we cannot accept that so many lives are lost every year on this continent to preventable diseases, neglect and senseless brutality. - Jan Egeland Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
The important thing is that we give and that we as citizens also demand that our countries give generously to those who have been so hard hit. - Jan Egeland Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
The world is not providing sufficient pressure on the political parties to make a peaceful solution to this and the world is not providing security. - Jan Egeland Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
One of the possibilities we could have is international helicopters operating across the border. - Jan Egeland Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
there are many thousands, potentially tens of thousands, up there in the mountains that are wounded we haven't gotten to. - Jan Egeland Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
These are atrocities of incalculable proportions. The whole world...must increase pressure on the government of Sudan to stop fighting and improve access for humanitarian groups. - Jan Egeland Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
The way it is now it can not continue. We need security, which we do not have. We need a government that enables us to work and does not create obstacles to our work. We need a guerrilla (force) that does not specialize in hijacking relief trucks and fighting each other and displacing new people, which has happened in the past few weeks. And we need funding. - Jan Egeland Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
All humanitarian organizations are acutely aware that our window of opportunity for action is closing with the onset of the severe winter. - Jan Egeland Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
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