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Saturday May 04, 2024
Jan Egeland

  • December 19, 2020

    Covid-19 and refugees

    The coronavirus has not yet decimated refugee camps or killed displaced people in significant numbers, as I and many others feared in March. To...

  • September 30, 2020

    A hunger pandemic

    In March, we predicted that the 70 million people fleeing violence and persecution across the world would be hit hardest by the coronavirus...

  • October 19, 2019

    No empathy

    Exactly one year ago, 160 men, women and children set off from San Pedro Sula in Honduras, in the first widely televised Central American human...

  • December 30, 2018

    The crises we cannot ignore

    The year 2018 is about to end with seemingly little having been achieved to resolve major crises around the world. Syrians continued to try to flee...

  • February 06, 2018

    The long wait

    Today, in government buildings across Europe and the Middle East, officials debate policies that would return millions of Syrian refugees to their...