Media Advisory: Human Development Report to launch on 21 March in Stockholm, Sweden

‘Human Development for Everyone’

Who: Prime Minister of Sweden, Stefan Löfven, United Nations Development Programme Administrator, Helen Clark, Deputy Prime Minister of Sweden, Isabella Lövin, and the Director of the Human Development Report Office, Selim Jahan

What: Launch of UNDP’s Human Development Report 2016 ‘Human Development for Everyone’ 

When: Tuesday, 21 March 2017, at 3 pm in Stockholm, Sweden (2 pm GMT)

Where: The Pillar Hall, Norra Latin, Drottninggatan 71B, Stockholm, Sweden

Event will include formal launch and a media Q&A.

Follow livestream at: http://hdr.undp.org

The Human Development Report 2016 ‘Human Development for Everyone’ will be launched on 21 March in Stockholm with the Prime Minister of Sweden, Stefan Löfven, the United Nations Development Programme Administrator, Helen Clark, Deputy Prime Minister of Sweden Isabella Lövin, and the Director of the Human Development Report Office and lead author of the report, Selim Jahan.

In past decades, there have been significant gains in human development levels in almost every country; but millions of people have not benefitted from this progress. Who has been left behind and why? The Human Development Report 2016 looks into these two questions. It recognizes that in every society certain groups are far more likely to suffer disadvantages than others and identifies deep-rooted, and often unmeasured, barriers to development.

The report also looks to what societies should do to advance human development for everyone. It sets forward policy recommendations at the national level and also looks at ways in which the global development landscape could be made more effective in the fight to leave no one behind and achieve the 2030 Agenda and the Global Goals for Sustainable Development (the SDGs).

Please RSVP to: caroline.aberg@undp.org

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MEDIA CONTACTS

UNDP Headquarters, New York

Anna Ortubia / anna.ortubia@undp.org /+1 212 906 5964

Ann-Marie Wilcock / ann-marie.wilcock@undp.org / +1 212 906 6586

UNDP Nordic Regional Office

Caroline Åberg / caroline.aberg@undp.org / +46 70 547 93 42

ABOUT THIS REPORT: Human development is about expanding the richness of human life, rather than simply the richness of the economy in which human beings live. This idea focuses on people and their choices and opportunities. The Human Development Reports use this approach to analyse some of the most pressing challenges facing humanity to achieve sustainable progress. More information at http://hdr.undp.org