Jan Egeland

Jan Egeland says it is "impossible" to cross into the frontline and deliver aid to people "we know are on the starvation point" because of the current fighting, which he describes as possibly the worst ever in the besieged Damascus suburb. Speaking in an interview with The Associated Press from Oslo on ...

A top United Nations aid official is appealing to Russia and the Syrian government and those who have influence over armed opposition groups for a cessation of hostilities in eastern Ghouta. Jan Egeland says it is "impossible" to cross into the frontline and deliver aid to people "we know are on the ...

An estimated 270,000 residents fled eastern Idlib and northeastern Hama in December 2017 and January 2018 during a Russian-backed SAA offensive that began in December 2017, said UN Special Advisor to the UN Special Envoy for Syria Jan Egeland in a February 1 statement. Displaced families from ...

UNITED NATIONS, Mar 7 2018 (IPS) - Despite calls for a ceasefire, violent clashes have continued and humanitarian access remains limited in Syria's Eastern Ghouta, leaving the international community extremely concerned. Since the Syrian government intensified its attacks in recent weeks, more than 700 civilians, ...

--Jan Egeland. Charlotte Ukuba, 60, fled to Site Etat at Kikwit, Kwilu Province in the southwest of DR Congo. ''I'm living now outside with my eight children,” Ukuba told IPS. “My husband was killed last year by the Kamwina Nsapu's violence in Kasai province. When I came here, I was living first in a church ...

"The crisis in DR Congo has deteriorated exponentially over the last two years," Jan Egeland, Secretary General of the Norwegian Refugee Council, told IPS in an interview. "These are not the same conflicts we have been seeing for the last twenty years. Regions that were normally peaceful and stable ...

Jan Egeland also said the UN Security Council resolution over the weekend calling for a 30-day ceasefire has done little to improve the situation in the opposition-held region east of Damascus. "Since it was adopted, it did not get better — it got worse," he said. Eastern Ghouta was among the first areas to ...

Jan Egeland also said the U.N. Security Council resolution over the weekend calling for a 30-day cease-fire has done little to improve the situation in the rebel-held region east of Damascus. "Since it was adopted, it did not get better — it got worse," he said. Egeland's comments came after the Russian ...

BEIRUT – The five-hour daily pauses in fighting in Syria's embattled eastern suburbs of the capital Damascus – laid out under a “unilateral” plan by Russia – are not enough to take in aid or evacuate civilians, a top U.N. aid official said Thursday. Jan Egeland also said the U.N. Security Council resolution ...

Ms. Kristalina Georgieva, the CEO of the World Bank,; Mr. Thomas Zahnneisen, Director of the Humanitarian Assistance at the German Federal Foreign Office,; H.E. Mrs. Suraya Dalil, Ambassador, Permanent Representative of Afghanistan to the United Nations,; Mr. Jan Egeland, the Secretary General of ...

Earlier this month, Jan Egeland, the United Nations humanitarian adviser for Syria, said that the Assad regime's co-operation with sending relief supplies to areas it was besieging in the civil war was at an “all-time low”. Hundreds of thousands of civilians in Syria are living in besieged areas, deprived of ...

Armed men attack and abuse defenceless women and children every day, displacing millions,” said Jan Egeland, Secretary General of the Norwegian Refuge Council (NRC), on a visit to eastern DRC. “While it's not easy to stop violence by hundreds of armed groups, it's inexplicable and shameful that we ...

“This is not the time and this is not the place for forced return. And yet European countries continue to do just that. It has to stop. It is not safe," Jan Egeland said during the launch of the report 'Escaping war in Afghanistan: Where to next?' Study on the challenges protection for internally displaced people in ...

While many displaced Syrians will likely return to their homes this year, safety and stability is still a long way off. Jan Egeland by Jan Egeland. 4 Feb 2018. A displaced Syrian boy is pictured at Kelbit refugee camp, near the Syrian-Turkish border, on January 17, 2018. Picture [Osman Orsal/Reuters]. Today, in government ...

Jan Egeland also said the U.N. Security Council resolution... The five-hour daily pauses in fighting in Syria's embattled eastern suburbs of the capital Damascus laid out under a "unilateral" plan by Russia are not enough to take in aid or evacuate civilians, a top U.N. aid official said Thursday. Jan Egeland ...

Jan Egeland also says the U.N. Security Council resolution over the weekend calling for a 30-day cease-fire has done little to improve the situation in the rebel-held region east of Damascus. Egeland says: "Since it was adopted, it did not get better — it got worse." Egeland, who heads humanitarian aid ...