Development and Human Rights in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) : Challenges and Opportunities
Many parts of Middle East and North Africa (MENA) have experienced volatility and fragility due to conflict over the course of the region's long and complex history. These conflicts have had significant impact on economic and human development...
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okr-10986-108882021-04-23T14:02:52Z Development and Human Rights in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) : Challenges and Opportunities Lind, Lene Gustafsson, Sara Raghavan, Vikram CAPACITY BUILDING CITIZENS CONVENTIONS COUNSEL CULTURAL RIGHTS DISCRIMINATION EQUALITY FREEDOM FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION HUMAN RIGHTS HUMAN RIGHTS COMMITTEE HUMAN RIGHTS INSTRUMENTS HUMAN RIGHTS MONITORING HUMAN RIGHTS STANDARDS HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS INFORMATION INTERNATIONAL STANDARDS JUSTICE MIGRATION POLICIES POLICY MAKERS POLITICAL CHANGE POLITICAL RIGHTS RELIGION RIGHT RIGHTS APPROACH RIGHTS APPROACHES SECURITY SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT THREATS TREATIES WOMEN WOMEN'S RIGHTS Many parts of Middle East and North Africa (MENA) have experienced volatility and fragility due to conflict over the course of the region's long and complex history. These conflicts have had significant impact on economic and human development indicators. Also, and more recently, massive protests and unrest have flared across several parts of the region. In Egypt and Tunisia these protests have led to historic political changes, even as the situation is still unfolding in others. These changes are likely to have significant consequences, especially for citizens' participation and involvement in the development process, which are increasingly articulated through the prism of human rights. This fast brief aims at assisting staff to form a better understanding of these issues. Conflict, as currently witnessed in the MENA region, is not only a tool for destruction and suffering, but also a vehicle for social and political change. Violent conflict, however, prevents the kind of stability necessary for human and economic development and for reaching the overall Millennium Development Goal (MDG) of human security for all. With more than 1,5 billion people living in countries affected by conflict, the World Development Report 2011 (WDR) underlines the negative impact of persistent conflict on a country's or a region's development prospects and notes that no low-income conflict affected state has yet achieved a single MDG. 2012-08-13T13:26:48Z 2012-08-13T13:26:48Z 2011-06 http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2011/06/15048784/development-human-rights-middle-east-north-africa-mena-challenges-opportunities http://hdl.handle.net/10986/10888 English MNA Knowledge and Learning Fast Brief; No. 86 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/ World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research :: Brief Publications & Research Middle East and North Africa |
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Many parts of Middle East and North
Africa (MENA) have experienced volatility and fragility due
to conflict over the course of the region's long and
complex history. These conflicts have had significant impact
on economic and human development indicators. Also, and more
recently, massive protests and unrest have flared across
several parts of the region. In Egypt and Tunisia these
protests have led to historic political changes, even as the
situation is still unfolding in others. These changes are
likely to have significant consequences, especially for
citizens' participation and involvement in the
development process, which are increasingly articulated
through the prism of human rights. This fast brief aims at
assisting staff to form a better understanding of these
issues. Conflict, as currently witnessed in the MENA region,
is not only a tool for destruction and suffering, but also a
vehicle for social and political change. Violent conflict,
however, prevents the kind of stability necessary for human
and economic development and for reaching the overall
Millennium Development Goal (MDG) of human security for all.
With more than 1,5 billion people living in countries
affected by conflict, the World Development Report 2011
(WDR) underlines the negative impact of persistent conflict
on a country's or a region's development prospects
and notes that no low-income conflict affected state has yet
achieved a single MDG. |
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Publications & Research :: Brief |
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Lind, Lene Gustafsson, Sara Raghavan, Vikram |
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Lind, Lene Gustafsson, Sara Raghavan, Vikram |
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Lind, Lene |
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Development and Human Rights in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) : Challenges and Opportunities |
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Development and Human Rights in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) : Challenges and Opportunities |
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Development and Human Rights in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) : Challenges and Opportunities |
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Development and Human Rights in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) : Challenges and Opportunities |
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Development and Human Rights in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) : Challenges and Opportunities |
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development and human rights in the middle east and north africa (mena) : challenges and opportunities |
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World Bank, Washington, DC |
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2012 |
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http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2011/06/15048784/development-human-rights-middle-east-north-africa-mena-challenges-opportunities http://hdl.handle.net/10986/10888 |
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