Arab Human Development Report 2009
Challenges to Human Security in the Arab Countries
The fifth volume in the series of Arab Human Development Reports sponsored by the United Nations Development Programme and independently authored by intellectuals and scholars from Arab countries.
The report argues that human security is a prerequisite for human development, and that the widespread absence of human security in Arab countries undermines people's options.
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Table of Contents
- Foreword, team and table of contents
- Chapter 1: Applying the concept of human security in the Arab countries
- Chapter 2: The environment, resource pressures and human security in the Arab countries
- Chapter 3: The Arab State and human ecurity - performance and prospects
- Chapter 4: The personal insecurity of vulnerable groups
- Chapter 5: Challenges to economic security
- Chapter 6: Hunger, nutrition and human security
- Chapter 7: Approaching health through human security - a road not taken
- Chapter 8: Occupation, military intervention and human insecurity
- Chapter 9: Concluding reflections
- Bibliography and references
- Annex I: Human development indicators in the Arab countries
- Annex II: Indicators of governance in the Arab countries
- Annex III: The human security survey