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Jan Egeland

A small group of people are shown walking through coastal waters in Mozambique with large ships in the distance.

UN: Millions driven from homes in 2020 despite COVID crisis

Displacement

War, violence, persecution, human rights violations and other factors caused nearly 3 million people to flee their homes last year, even though the COVID-19 crisis restricted movement worldwide, the UN refugee agency said in a report Friday.

A Venezuelan migrant girl wearing a pink sweater with a heart on it, is shown heading to the exit of a makeshift camp with her belongings in Bogota, Colombia.

Latin America grapples with migrant exodus that looks set to worsen in 2019

Global Politics
The sun rises on the Statue of Liberty, in New York, November 2nd 2016

Norwegian statesman Jan Egeland critiques Trump’s reported vulgar remarks

Global Politics
Displaced people from the minority Yazidi sect, who fled violence in the Iraqi town of Sinjar, sleep on the ground at the Bajed Kadal refugee camp in southwest Dohuk province on August 23, 2014.

A former UN relief coordinator says Iraqi and Syrian refugees pose the biggest humanitarian crisis of our generation

Conflict
The World

Norwegian Comedians Sing Praises of Former UN Official

Global Politics

Myanmar Elections: A Changing Country and its Exiled Opponents

Global Politics

What Sunday’s elections in Myanmar (Burma), and the broader changes happening there, mean for the country’s exiled opponents.

Norwegian Diplomat on Twin Attacks

Global Politics

Jan Egeland is a former UN Under-Secretary for Humanitarian Affairs.