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THE FIRST-HAND TRUTH ABOUT HUMANITARIAN AID Interview with Jan Egeland, Secretary-General of the Norwegian Refugee Council

04/04/2014

Jan Egeland was the United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator from June 2003 to December 2006 and, due to his outspokenness and general manner, he was a very popular man with journalists, in particular in Geneva. It was perhaps one of the most exciting or, should one rather say, dramatic periods with, for instance, the Indian Ocean Tsunami and other disasters one after the other. Jan was there talking to the press, denouncing and drawing attention to many…

Interview with Ms Sally Fegan-Wyles, Assistant Secretary-General, United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) Training for delegates to the United Nations

03/31/2014

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Training for delegates to the United Nations Q: You have been the Executive Director of UNITAR for over a year now. What is the true significance of United Nations training and research? We should first talk about UNITAR’s niche in the training world, because there are so many organizations around the world carrying out training. Most parts of the United Nations provide some form of training, and then there are universities all over the place. There are…