Jan Egeland 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.

Despite the increase in world attention toward Sudan in the past months, the genocide in Darfur has continued without any serious attempt by the Sudanese government to do what governments primarily exist to do, protect their citizens.

The security agencies are prosecuting the government’s war in Darfur.

The migrant question is directly linked to the crisis in Syria and Iraq.

The Coalition for International Justice estimated that 450,000 people in Darfur have died since the deadly genocide began some three years ago.

We need to begin an all-out diplomatic offensive on Darfur in order to prepare the way for a peacekeeping force that can ensure protection for the people of Darfur.

All South Sudanese deserve consistent and unimpeded humanitarian assistance, regardless of if they live in areas held by rebel or government forces.

What is most needed in Darfur is an international peacekeeping and protection presence, and this is what the Sudanese government most wants to avoid.

We can make a difference. We can save lives. We can stop the genocide.

We must do all we can to help improve the deplorable human rights situation of the North Korean people.

Aid can only reach the victims of war by paying off the warlords and, sometimes, extending the war.

When the bombs rain down, the Syrian Civil Defense rush in.

Wars are getting longer, they are more complex, and the humanitarian need is great.

There are lots of countries that are having these kinds of internal civil wars in other parts of the world and nobody is talking about intervening.

Surely our inaction with respect to Syria is a poor precedent if we're fighting a war on terror.

When human rights are systematically abused, it raises the question whether it may be legitimate in some circumstances for the international community to intervene within individual states as well as in conflicts between states.

As a Jew I cannot sit idle while genocidal atrocities continue to unfold in Darfur, Sudan.

I think the biggest challenge for Somalia has been the sense that it is a hopeless case of incomprehensible internal conflicts and there is nothing we can do.

The first time I visited Afghanistan in May 2000, I was 26 years old, and the country was under Taliban rule. I went there to document Afghan women and landmine victims.

Military troops were withdrawn from Chechnya on Dec. 31, 1996.

We've got a very difficult situation created by this embrace of the so-called Arab Spring. And that's not getting better. It's getting worse. The carnage for the people of Syria is horrific, and it's quite frankly too little, too late to reverse a lot of that.

We estimate that humanitarian agencies have access to about 350,000 vulnerable people in Darfur - only about one third of the estimated total population in need.

We all might ask ourselves why we tune in to these more trivial matters and tune out when it comes to Darfur.

The mercy caravans are through there the medicine refugees flowing out. It makes the United States look very bad here. And much more like an occupation force than it did before.

While Americans have heard of Darfur and think we should be doing more there, they aren't actually angry at the president about inaction.