Launch of Human Development Report 2012
Human Development and the Shift to Better Citizen Security

25 January 2012

CHDR 2012. Source: UNDP

 

The Caribbean Human Development Report 2012: Human Development and the Shift to Better Citizen Security, will be launched on 8 February in Port of Spain with the participation of the Honourable Kamla Persad-Bissessar, Prime Minister of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago, UNDP Administrator Ms. Helen Clark and UNDP Assistant Secretary General, Assistant Administrator and Director of the Regional Bureau for Latin America and the Caribbean Mr. Heraldo Muñoz.

 

The CHDR reviews the state of crime as well as the current efforts and programmes to address crime in seven English- and Dutch-speaking Caribbean countries: Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Guyana, Jamaica, Saint Lucia, Suriname, and Trinidad and Tobago. The Report offers recommendations to reduce and prevent violent crime while advancing human development in the region. Issues addressed in the CHDR encompass, but are not limited to patterns of victimisation, gangs, youth violence, policy, the police, prosecution, corrections and courts in addition to risk factors and determinants. For further information please see the official web site of the report on http://www.regionalcentrelac-undp.org/en/hdr-caribbean/.