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.
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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.Jan Egeland
I think it would be a massive undertaking to actually have a full-fledged tsunami warning system that would really be effective in many of these places,
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We stand by the report. The eviction campaign was the worst possible thing at the worst possible moment. ... The important thing now is to look to the future. We have to help these people.
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No amount of humanitarian assistance can protect people from being attacked.
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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.
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I am very worried about it, ... Late Edition with Wolf Blitzer.
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