185 ordspråk av Jan Egeland
Jan Egeland
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.
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The whole world has been really shaken and moved by the images of widespread damage and suffering.
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The world did exactly the right thing in the tsunami. I always feel that this should be our new standard.
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The world is not doing enough.
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The world is not doing enough. We should be able to do this.
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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.
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The world is really coming together here in a way we probably have never seen before.
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The world wakes up when we see images on the TV and when we see children dying,
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The world's response to the tsunami was the best ever.
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The world's response to the tsunami was the best ever. Governments, the private sector, and individuals around the world opened their hearts and their wallets. Private donations for the tsunami eclipsed anything seen before.
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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.
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There are issues we disagree on frankly, but we also agree on the importance of the international community to raise its profile in pursuing humanitarian principles.
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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.
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there are many thousands, potentially tens of thousands, up there in the mountains that are wounded we haven't gotten to.
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There is nothing more dangerous than young men with no jobs and a gun. We have to avoid conflicts re-emerging, and for that, support is very much necessary. Sudan cannot do it alone. With no money it will all collapse.
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