AHDR launched [Archives:2002/29/Local News]

A press conference was organized by the United Nations Information Center and the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) to inaugurate the first Arab Human Development Report (AHDR) last Saturday in Sanaa. The report is the first of its kind in Yemen to be prepared by independent Arab experts. It has been published by the UNDPs Arab Office and the Social and Economical Arab Development Fund.
The report has pointed out that most of the Arab countries have achieved considerable improvements in the field of human development, life expectancy, and reduction in the birth rate.
At the same time, the report has warned that the Arab countries have not progressed in the same way as other countries in particular fields such as, freedoms, giving access to women to participate and knowledge. The report has also mentioned new methods to measure the human development in the field of the human rights which is closely related to the human freedoms.

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