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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Executive Summary
Full Report
Report Team
Youth Synthesis Report

Table of Contents

Introductory Section: Introductions, 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 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