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	Jan Egeland - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Jan Egeland (born 1957 in Norway) is the United Nations Undersecretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator.
		Egeland was appointed in June 2003 by Secretary-General Kofi Annan and succeeded Kenzo Oshima.
		Egeland has focused his efforts in alleviating the needs of this sector of the population in complex emergency situations like the Lord's Resistance Army insurgency in northern Uganda, the Darfur region in Sudan and the Democratic Republic of Congo, where millions of displaced persons are affected.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jan_Egeland (598 words)

	Personality of the Week: Jan Egeland - Pravda.Ru (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Jan Egeland, the Norwegian who is coordinating the United Nations Organization's humanitarian aid programmes in Asia, is the figurehead leading the teams of thousands of aid workers and volunteers, channeling aid to where it is most needed.
		Jan Egeland referred recently to the effects of the UNO's work in the field, setting up centres for medical treatment, food distribution, training, organizing the rapid back-to-school programme and organizing the teams to begin repair and rebuilding work on the smashed infrastructures.
		Jan Egeland is the visible face of the UNO at its best, providing aid where it is needed, forging a link between desperate situations in the present and a better life in the future.
	english.pravda.ru /opinion/columnists/24-01-2005/7632-egeland-0 (445 words)

	ReliefWeb » Document Preview » Highlights of press conference by Jan Egeland, USG for Humanitarian Affairs
		Egeland said that on the third issue, the world was still behind developments, not only on the political front, but also concerning climate change and its consequences for natural disasters.
		Egeland said that he hoped that all the parties involved in the conflict would behave responsibly, and would stop being utterly irresponsible and cruel as they were being today.
		Egeland said the recent attacks in Darfur were sometimes attributed to rebels or guerrilla forces, others to a splinter group of the SLA, elsewhere it was the Janjaweed, in other places it was Government forces, and there were also ethnic militias and armed bandits now involved.
	www.reliefweb.int /rw/RWB.NSF/db900SID/EVOD-6GNH44?OpenDocument (2194 words)

	Personality of the Week: Jan Egeland - Pravda.Ru
		Master of Political Science from the University of oslo, Jan Egeland was a Fulbright Scholar at the prestigious Berkeley University, California and a Fellow at the International Peace Research Institute, Oslo, and the Truman Institute for the Advancement for Peace, Jerusalem.
		Jan Egeland worked as Director of Development Studies at the Henry Dunant Institute, Geneva and as a radio and TV reporter for the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation, becoming Secretary-General of the Norwegian Red Cross.
		Jan Egeland led the Norwegian delegation which facilitated the peace talks in Guatemala between the government and the URNG guerrillas, which led to the signing of the peace agreement in 1996.
	english.pravda.ru /mailbox/22/101/399/14859_egeland.html (757 words)

	Aljazeera.Net - Sudan clears UN visit to Darfur (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Egeland arrived in southern Sudan on the weekend, but was told his plane would not be allowed to land in either Khartoum, the national capital, or Darfur, where UN agencies are providing relief and assistance to hundreds of thousands of people.
		The top UN envoy in Sudan, Jan Pronk, had written to the government asking for an explanation of its barring Egeland, who is due to report to the Security Council on the situation in Darfur.
		Egeland said on Monday he suspected the government did not want him to see what was happening in Darfur.
	english.aljazeera.net /NR/exeres/707C1E0C-CEB5-4FE0-9A1A-5D396952472B.htm (374 words)

	Asia struggles to cope with quake aftermath
		JAN EGELAND: Coordination is crucial to success, because if 1,000 well-meaning aid agents come to the same airport at the same time with the same things, it will be a disaster in the disaster.
		JAN EGELAND: As happened in Bam, in the sense that many of those who really expected to not be in tents now and to have rebuilt a home still are in tents.
		Egeland, Kofi Annan and Mark Malloch Brown, the three people we've been talking about, are all on their way to Indonesia tonight, as you said earlier, to deal with this.
	asiasource.org /news/special_reports/c_rose.cfm (7000 words)

	30 December 2004
		JAN EGELAND: I would consider this to be one the worst natural disasters ever in human history.
		JAN EGELAND: These are estimates that we've gotten from local and national authorities in the most hard hit countries which are Sri Lanka and India and Indonesia.
		JAN EGELAND: We have from the United Nations side sent expert teams to all of the affected countries, either people we had the in the countries or additional people we've sent from Geneva and other places.
	www.unicwash.org /news/egeland_Tsunami.htm (1032 words)

	OCHA On-Line: The Under-Secretary-General - Jan Egeland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Jan Egeland of Norway assumed his post as the Under-Secretary-General (USG) for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator (ERC) in August 2003.
		Egeland visited more than 20 countries to stimulate the interest of the world and humanitarian communities in current issues needing urgent attention.
		Egeland's leadership, OCHA has actively campaigned for more coordinated partnership within the humanitarian community in addressing the needs of the most vulnerable members of the world population.
	ochaonline.un.org /webpage.asp?Page=1299 (486 words)

	Jan Egeland: bio and encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Jan Egeland (born 1957) is a Norwegian[For more, click on this link] citizen who is the United Nations United Nations quick summary:
		Egeland was appointed in June 2003 by Secretary-General Secretary-General quick summary:
		Egeland was quoted as saying that the donations were so large and were coming in so fast that "We really have to confirm that we heard right, EHandler: no quick summary.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/j/ja/jan_egeland.htm (1196 words)

	The Biography of Jan Egeland
		Jan Egeland of Norway as the new Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, succeeding Kenzo Oshima of Japan.
		Egeland has gained 25 years of active experience in humanitarian, human rights and peace work through the United Nations, the Norwegian Government, the Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement and other non-governmental and academic institutions.
		Egeland has published a number of reports, studies and articles on conflict resolution, humanitarian affairs and human rights.
	www.un.org /News/ossg/sg/stories/egeland_bio.asp (336 words)

	Online NewsHour: Desperate Rescue Efforts in Pakistan -- November 1, 2005
		JAN EGELAND: Because this is the Himalaya Mountains.
		JAN EGELAND: It hasn't helped that this is an area of tension.
		JAN EGELAND: Well, so far, we know that 80,000 people are confirmed injured, but there are many thousands, potentially tens of thousands up there in the mountains that are wounded we haven't gotten to.
	www.pbs.org /newshour/bb/asia/july-dec05/pakistan_11-1.html (1581 words)

	Committee on Conscience \| Analysis \| Transcript
		Egeland, there is much more aid going to Darfur now than there was two years ago, yet you told the Security Council that you could repeat key parts of your first briefing to them in April 2004.
		JAN EGELAND: About three million people depend on international assistance where the life line really to about 1.7 internally displaced, but there are more than one million more war victims, as we call them that have lost their livestock; they lost their agricultural land, lost everything due to the fighting.
		JAN EGELAND: Among other things they say, “You will have to leave unless you refrain yourself.” Several individual aid workers have been asked to leave, and of course, this is their career.
	www.ushmm.org /conscience/analysis/details.php?content=2006-05-04 (2375 words)

	Barking Moonbat Early Warning System (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Egeland had to say after the White House announced it was sending $15 million in aid to victims of the recent earthquake and tsunami in Southeast Asia....
		Egeland has said or done to help stop the suffering of Blacks in the Darfur region of Sudan who are being slaughtered by Muslim bandits and criminal “war parties” in the pay of the Sudanese government (which, by the way, is Muslim).
		Egeland going to Sudan and serving as a human shield to stop the genocide, or sending some of his “experts” to do same, or even speaking out against the inhuman treatment of Africans by Muslims.
	www.barking-moonbat.com /index.php/weblog/who_is_jan_egeland_and_why_isnt_he_dead (1473 words)

	The Epoch Times \| Tsunami Aid Efforts Aiming at Hardest-Hit Aceh Region
		Briefing reporters Thursday, emergency relief coordinator Jan Egeland admitted that the massive global aid community is "not even close" to having figures of how many people died, how many are missing, and how many more may be living in improvised camps in Aceh, which bore the brunt of the tsunami's force.
		Egeland noted the announcement in Jakarta that the core group of aid donors led by the United States has been dissolved and integrated into the U.N.-led aid effort.
		Egeland said that except for Sumatra, aid workers will soon be able to provide blankets, tents, water, food and sanitation to almost all survivors in tsunami-hit areas.
	english.epochtimes.com /news/5-1-6/25554.html (441 words)

	TBIFOC - Stingy? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		For Jan Egeland of the United Nations to call the United States "stingy" is downright reprehensible.
		The United States should make a public announcement that they are withholding an amount equal to the cost of Jan Egeland's salary and staff from their annual contribution to the United Nations and donating it directly to the relief efforts in the wake of this horrific disaster.
		Jan Egeland, UN undersecretary-general for humanitarian affairs and emergency relief, is a really class crass act.
	www.isfullofcrap.com /oldcrap/015039.html (417 words)

	U.N. official backtracks after calling U.S. 'stingy' - The Washington Times: Nation/Politics - December 29, 2004 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Egeland yesterday morning that, while needs varied from country to country, body bags, medical supplies, water-purification pills, food, clothing and bedding were high on everyone's list.
		Egeland's "stingy" comment Monday outraged some U.S. officials, especially now that the United Nations is under investigation for enriching itself through illicit transactions with former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein in the burgeoning oil-for-food scandal.
		Egeland's initial press briefing confirms that he asked reporters at the United Nations why Western countries are "so stingy" and specifically cited the United States as an example of a country whose citizens want to pay more taxes so that foreign aid can be increased.
	washingtontimes.com /national/20041229-121821-3403r.htm (1495 words)

	CBC News: UN promises audit to ensure tsunami pledges are paid
		But Jan Egeland, the UN emergency relief co-ordinator, vowed on Thursday to have a full accounting of funds — now at $3.6 billion — promised after the Dec. 26 tsunami in the Indian Ocean.
		Egeland also said that the relief effort has managed to supply the basics in most areas hit by the disaster and is increasingly focusing on the Indonesian island of Sumatra.
		Egeland's comments came after Annan made an appeal for $1.2 billion in immediate emergency aid at a summit of world leaders in Indonesia.
	www.cbc.ca /story/world/national/2005/01/06/tsunami-summit050106.html (983 words)

	CNN.com - Transcripts
		JAN EGELAND, U.N. RELIEF CHIEF: There is an in-built discrimination in the sense that, as I said, if we all agree that a human life is the same value wherever he or she is born, there should be this same attention to northern Uganda as to northern Iraq.
		EGELAND: We are attending in general better to deal with the current crisis if they happened in Europe, or if they even happened in the Middle East, than if they happened in Africa.
		EGELAND: Well, their response, often in the end, is that we get belatedly enough resources to avoid this cut of rations.
	edition.cnn.com /TRANSCRIPTS/0505/14/i_if.01.html (3151 words)

	U.N. Official Stands by Some Criticisms (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		UNITED NATIONS -- U.N. humanitarian chief Jan Egeland praised rich nations Wednesday for their generosity in helping victims of the tsunami, but stood by his criticism that the rich do too little to assist the poor when there are no emergencies.
		Egeland said that after seeing ``how we get about one-third of what we ask for in assistance to the poorest of the poor in the poorest countries,'' it was important ``to say that rich nations in general we hope should give more.''
		Egeland, who was a journalist for 10 years, said he realized ``10 seconds'' after making the ``stingy'' comment on Monday that it wasn't clear and was open to misinterpretation.
	www.newsmax.com /archives/articles/2004/12/29/204414.shtml (743 words)

	UN humanitarian chief says Sudan reverses ban on Darfur
		Egeland said the Sudanese government had invited him to visit Darfur a few days after barring him from the war-torn region, but he had not yet decided if and when he would go.
		UN emergency relief coordinator Jan Egeland said the Sudanese government had invited him to visit Darfur a few days after barring him from the war-torn region, but he had not yet decided if and when he would go.
		Egeland was to have started a tour of Darfur on Monday, but the UN official said Khartoum told him he was not welcome.
	www.turkishpress.com /news.asp?id=118020 (709 words)

	SECRETARY-GENERAL APPOINTS JAN EGELAND OF NORWAY NEW UNDER-SECRETARY-GENERAL FOR HUMANITARIAN AFFAIRS
		SECRETARY-GENERAL APPOINTS JAN EGELAND OF NORWAY NEW UNDER-SECRETARY-GENERAL FOR HUMANITARIAN AFFAIRS
		The Secretary-General announced on 6 June the appointment of Jan Egeland of Norway as the new Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, succeeding Kenzo Oshima of Japan.
		Egeland holds a Magister Artium in Political Science, University of Oslo. He has been a Fulbright Scholar at the University of California, Berkeley and a fellow at the International Peace Research Institute, Oslo, and the Truman Institute for the Advancement for Peace, Jerusalem. Mr.
	www.un.org /News/Press/docs/2003/sga840Rev1.doc.htm (204 words)

	AEGiS-UPI: U.N.: Africans have needs like tsunami victims
		U.N. Undersecretary-General Jan Egeland, the U.N. emergency relief coordinator, who has called the African humanitarian crises "silent tsunamis," said since 1998 in the Democratic Republic of the Congo alone, 3.8 million people have been killed.
		Egeland said nearly four-fifths of all recent U.N. humanitarian appeals have addressed African problems, but the response has been slow to nearly non-existent.
		The response to consolidated appeals for Africa from U.N. agencies and non-governmental organizations last year ranged from 10 percent for Zimbabwe to less than 40 percent for the Central African Republic and Ivory Coast to around 75 percent for Sudan, Chad and Uganda, he said.
	www.aegis.com /news/upi/2005/UP050108.html (1049 words)

	JAN EGELAND AWARDED 2005 ROGER E. JOSEPH PRIZE
		JAN EGELAND AWARDED 2005 ROGER E. On 22 May, HebrewUnionCollege awarded the 2005 Roger E. Joseph Prize to Jan Egeland, United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs.
		The Joseph Prize is an international award presented annually to an individual or organization, which, by virtue of religious and moral commitment, has made a distinctive contribution to humanity and whose conduct or work enhances or encourages the values and ideals that derive from religious teaching.
		Egeland was awarded the $10,000 prize for his work on behalf of victims worldwide.
	i-newswire.com /goprint21867.html (458 words)

	CIVPOL Web Site - Top UN aid official threatens to halt Darfur operations
		Anonymous writes "Top UN aid official Jan Egeland warned on Wednesday that relief operations in Darfur may have to be halted because of an upsurge in violence in the conflict-ravaged western Sudanese region.
		Egeland, the overall humanitarian aid coordinator for the United Nations, said the risks faced by the world body's 11,000 relief workers in Darfur could soon be too great.
		Egeland said the international community should ponder past failures, notably during the break up of Yugoslavia in the 1990s, when Muslims were massacred by Serb forces in areas purportedly protected by the UN and aid workers' operations were hampered by violence.
	www.civpol.org /portal/html/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=609 (713 words)

	Humanitarian Crises: Congo Worst - UN Security Council - Global Policy Forum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		United Nations emergency relief coordinator Jan Egeland said on Wednesday that over the last six years the toll in the Democratic Republic of Congo's amounted to "one tsunami every six months" - a reference to the December disaster which left about 300,000 people dead or missing in Asia.
		Egeland was speaking during a visit to Geneva for talks with UN and other relief workers on improving the global humanitarian aid system.
		The United Nations has mounted a major relief operation in the region, where Egeland said some three million civilians buffeted by the conflict are in need of help to survive, and this week gave militia fighters two weeks to disarm.
	www.globalpolicy.org /security/issues/congo/2005/0316worst.htm (795 words)

	Jan Egeland, United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, in Vienna to Discuss Crisis Response
		Jan Egeland, United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, in Vienna to Discuss Crisis Response
		Egeland will meet with Austrian officials to discuss challenges in responding to humanitarian crises.
		Jan Egeland has 25 years of experience in humanitarian affairs and human rights through the United Nations, the Norwegian government, the Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement and other non-governmental and academic institutions.
	www.unis.unvienna.org /unis/pressrels/2004/unisinf11.html (378 words)

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