SWEDEN / HUMAN DEVELOPMENT REPORT

According to the new UN’s Human Development report, a quarter-century of impressive human development progress continues to leave many people behind, with systemic, often unmeasured, barriers to catching up, adding that a stronger focus on those excluded and on actions to dismantle those barriers is urgently needed to ensure sustainable human development for all. UNDP

• Categories: News & Features / News Stories / Unifeed
• Video Length: 00:01:49
• Production Date: 22 March 2017
• Asset Language: English
• Personal Subject: HELEN CLARK
• Corporate Name: UNITED NATIONS DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME - UNDP
• Subject Topical: DEVELOPMENT
• MAMS Id: 1853901
• Parent Id: 1853901
• Alternate Title: unifeed170322d

Description

STORY: SWEDEN / HUMAN DEVELOPMENT REPORT
TRT: 01:49
SOURCE: UNDP
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS

DATELINE: 21 MARCH 2017, STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN

Shotlist

1.Med shot, Swedish PM and UNDP Administrator entering event
2.SOUNDBITE (English), Stefan Löfven, Prime Minister, Sweden:
“If you fill a minibus with the richest people in the world they own as much as the poorest half of 3.5 billion people. That’s absurd. It is totally unacceptable. Now I welcome the theme of this year’s report ‘Human Development For Everyone’. It highlights the need for equality. Leaving no one behind needs to become the way we operate as a global community. There is a moral dimension of course but there is also an economic one.”
3.Med shot, audience
4.Wide shot, event stage
5.SOUNDBITE (English), Helen Clark, Administrator, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP):
“In almost every country we find really the same groups tend to be more disadvantaged than others. Those groups include very large groupings like half the population which are women and girls, rural populations, people with disabilities, ethnic and faith minorities, indigenous peoples, migrants and refugees, older people, and the LGBTI communities. And the disadvantages they face may be multidimensional; that those born into disadvantage are more likely to suffer disadvantage themselves throughout the life cycle.”
6.Various shots, Swedish PM and UNDP Administrator photo op

Storyline

According to the UN’s Human Development report, a quarter-century of impressive human development progress continues to leave many people behind, with systemic, often unmeasured, barriers to catching up.

The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) publication said a stronger focus on those excluded and on actions to dismantle those barriers is urgently needed to ensure sustainable human development for all.

These are the findings of the Human Development Report 2016, entitled ‘Human Development for Everyone’, released Tuesday (21 Mar) by the UNDP in Stockholm, Sweden.

The report finds that although average human development improved significantly across all regions from 1990 to 2015, one in three people worldwide continue to live in low levels of human development, as measured by the Human Development Index.

“Leaving no one behind needs to become the way we operate as a global community. In order to overcome the barriers that hamper both human development and progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals, inclusiveness must guide policy choices,” said Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Löfven, speaking at the launch of the report event, alongside UNDP Administrator Helen Clark and the report’s lead author and Director of the Human Development Report Office, Selim Jahan.

“The world has come a long way in rolling back extreme poverty, in improving access to education, health and sanitation, and in expanding possibilities for women and girls,” said Helen Clark. “But those gains are a prelude to the next, possibly tougher challenge, to ensure the benefits of global progress reach everyone.”

This is a concern in developed countries too, where poverty and exclusion are also a challenge, with over 300 million people – including more than one-third of all children – living in relative poverty.