This time, at least, people heard about the earthquake. Many people fled inland.

They had hardly any roads at all and now they are gone.

We’re in a bad year. There have been more international disasters than usual. All the wars are continuing. The Pakistan situation will have an effect elsewhere.

North American pets get more investment per month than we have money for all our humanitarian operations in the world.

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

Malawi is losing the world’s attention.

I’d like to say that the United States has been ideal in the way they have responded.

We cannot now have a generation of aspirations for peace being destroyed (in southern Sudan) by the Lord’s Resistance Army coming in from northern Uganda and from other ethnic militias in southern Sudan.

We needed the money yesterday.

It’s even more urgent than it was in these other hurricanes or tsunamis.

It has never been worse.

Many access roads are too dangerous for relief workers, preventing them from carrying out assessments or reaching people in need.

We are humanitarian workers, we are apolitical, impartial. We hope to be successful in our dialogue (with Pyongyang) so we can have a phased end to the program.

This will help energize further the struggle to reach the earthquake stricken communities in the Himalayas.

[After the tsunami,] we had about 1000 helicopters active from the countries concerned, and from the whole international community … We have about one-10th of this in this emergency, and we need helicopters just as...

Conditions here are totally unacceptable. It has to change because people have to live a better life and have a better future.

It’s by far the biggest humanitarian catastrophe of the Western hemisphere, and yet the plight of these people remains a largely untold story.

We need better coordination on the international side, just as they need better and more effective efforts on the Somali side. We have too many reconstruction and development assistance plans.

It will be a marathon sprint throughout the winter where we have to do lifesaving assistance until the snow melts sometime in April.

many billions of dollars.

We’re sending around a hat now, we don’t know how much is in the hat when it’s coming back – in an emergency situation,

That had been one of our fears. I think it has not been the case.

The backdrop is a dramatic one in Zimbabwe, one of the most dramatic in the world. Life expectancy has plummeted from around 63 years in the late 1980s and early 1990s to 33.9 years in...

Based on numerous accounts, including reports from our own staff, the Janjaweed militia are primarily responsible for carrying out the attacks.

We are losing a race against the clock in the small villages,

Over the last few days, the world has finally woken up, but it took graphic images of dying children for this to happen,

The good news is that we have very good pledges. The bad news is that we still have too few concrete commitments to the U.N. flash appeal.

What is particularly difficult in Kashmir is that people (will) freeze to death if they don’t get assistance in weeks, … It’s even more urgent than it was in these other hurricanes or tsunamis.

It will take billions of dollars to rebuild … To reconstruct this will take five to 10 years,

No amount of humanitarian assistance can protect people from being attacked.

This has never ever happened before, that two weeks after a disaster that we have $717 million that we can spend on the immediate emergency effort.

one of the world’s most neglected crises.

This is one of the biggest challenges of our time and age, we need to make vulnerable people living in developing nations more resilient to natural hazards.

In the Horn of Africa now, there are tens of thousands dying from the extreme vulnerability they are living in.

The world is not doing enough. We should be able to do this.

We receive reports now on a daily basis from our own people on the ground in Darfur on widespread atrocities and grave violations of human rights against the civilian population.

So it’s a nightmare trying to reach community after community which are homeless, roofless, without food, without water. It is this race against time I fear we are now losing for many of these outlying...

They will now have their sixth, seventh night out in the cold. Perhaps even without a tent. They will also not have water because their spring is gone,

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

This year has really been the year of natural disasters, with nature at its worst and humanity at its best.

I think we have to make some progress and I think we will before he visits.

Finally, I also come in recognition of the great work that has been undertaken by the NGOs and UN agencies that have been active for many years here, especially through the local staff and international...

We’re still racing against the clock and we need to get more helicopters, more water, more tents and more money.

All together, we need a massive amount of investment from the international donor community and from the region itself to avert a massive loss of lives.

If we had had this fund, we would have been able to do more earlier.

The United Nations is grateful for the additional pledges so far of 525 million dollars to the assistance efforts in northern Pakistan.

This is a good start but it is not enough. We need more money from more nations,

Our assistance in Somalia has been remarkably effective and successful, and we have helped with very small resources – a large group of people and we can now do even more.

It could end tomorrow. It’s as serious as that.

behave responsibly and not be utterly irresponsible as they are today.