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's like nature strikes back on people who have treated nature badly and we see hundreds of thousands dead after these last two years and hundreds of millions of livelihoods lost.
The people of Zimbabwe are suffering under several big problems. I am hopeful that we will have a more positive partnership in 2006 than we have had in the past.
This time, at least, people heard about the earthquake. Many people fled inland.
We estimate that humanitarian agencies have access to about 350,000 vulnerable people in Darfur - only about one third of the estimated total population in need.
We have enough to keep people alive, but we can't at all change their totally inhuman kind of situation in camps where they cannot live without being attacked.
It is not right to sit with the money for reconstruction for one year from now if it is a question of whether people will still be alive.
It is, in my view, not right to sit with reconstruction money for one year from now if we're not sure whether those people will be alive one year from now.
Conditions here are totally unacceptable. It has to change because people have to live a better life and have a better future.
People are dying as we speak because we're not there in all of these villages where there are wounded people.
Tens of thousands of people will not get any assistance today, because it is too dangerous.
We are humanitarians, we don't know how to evacuate hundreds of thousands of people in the Himalayas. But the most efficient military alliance in the world should be able to.
We have health kits and school-in-a-box kits that are tailored for immediate use for people that are displace by emergencies, and when such requests come we will answer immediately.
We want to stay as long as we can. As we speak we have had to suspend action in many areas. Tens of thousands of people will not get any assistance because it's too dangerous and it could grow exponentially.
This is one of the most destructive natural disasters ever measured in the amount of homes destroyed, people affected, people displaced,
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.
It's no good saving people today just to see them killed tomorrow. They need help to escape the vicious cycle they find themselves in.
Are we going to have tens of thousands of people staying in the rubble and in the snow until it's too late? Maybe. It's a logistical nightmare,
It's a cruel reality. But after a week, very few people survive.
No amount of humanitarian assistance can protect people from being attacked.
Many access roads are too dangerous for relief workers, preventing them from carrying out assessments or reaching people in need.
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.
Increasingly gang violence and organized crime, together with climate change-driven natural disasters, are displacing more people as wars are fewer on the continent and political violence has decreased considerably, the NRC has decided to treat this as a humanitarian crisis.
I don't know how you evacuate hundreds of thousands of people from the Himalayas -- the most effective military alliance in the world should be able to know that.
These are people who have a strong attachment to their ancestral homes,
It's by far the biggest humanitarian catastrophe of the Western hemisphere, and yet the plight of these people remains a largely untold story.