Jan Egeland Lives Quotations

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.

Had there been better prevention, better early warning, better schools, earthquake-safe buildings - tens of thousands of lives would have been saved both in the Indian Ocean tsunami and in the South Asian earthquake,

We need more resources to save 2 million to 3 million lives and we need much more resources in the next few days.

We are trying now to move from saving lives in daily food distribution to doing agricultural work: livestock, water and irrigation recovery projects.

Tens of thousands of people's lives are at stake and they could die if we don't get to them in time.

Nowhere else on earth is so much at stake as in Africa. It is here where most lives are at stake.

The insecurity in Sri Lanka has claimed over 100 lives in recent weeks with increasing civilian casualties.

In terms of the human lives lost, this is the greatest humanitarian crisis in the world today. It is beyond belief that the world is not paying more attention.