Arab women have fought bravely over the last year to demand dignity and new freedoms. And their courage has been noted: In December, my Yemeni sister Tawakkol Karman became the first Arab woman to win the Nobel Prize for Peace, in recognition of her (...)
In just a few days, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) will launch the fifth volume of the Arab Human Development Report series.
Entitled "Challenges to Human Security in the Arab Countries, the Report employs the wider definition of (...)
At the Millennium Summit in 2000, world leaders made an ambitious, but critical promise. They went beyond imprecise proclamations on the urgent need to fight poverty by signing up to a set of measurable commitments to actually improve the (...)