185 ordspråk av Jan Egeland
Jan Egeland
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.
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These are people who have a strong attachment to their ancestral homes,
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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.
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They had hardly any roads at all and now they are gone.
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They were deathtraps, ... We have to build schools all over the world that are not deathtraps, that are earthquake proof.
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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,
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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.
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This has never ever happened before, that two weeks after a disaster that we have $717 million that we can spend on the immediate emergency effort.
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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,
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This is a good start but it is not enough. We need more money from more nations,
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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,
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This is not enough. We have never had this kind of logistical nightmare ever. We thought the tsunami was the worst we could get. This is worse.
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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.
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This is one of the most destructive natural disasters ever measured in the amount of homes destroyed, people affected, people displaced,
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This is the race against the clock that we've been talking about for some time, ... freeze to death if they don't get assistance in weeks.
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