Arab Human Development Report 2009

Challenges to Human Security in the Arab Countries

Foreword, team and table of contents
Executive summary
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 security – 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

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