deny it, realise that most of what was said in the most recent Arab Human Development Report is true. Arab Human Development Report 2005: Towards the Rise of Women in the Arab World The starting point for this Report was the observation that Arab countries have undoubtedly attained significant achievements in the advancement of women, and Arab women have made outstanding achievements in diverse fields of human activity, but much more remains to be accomplished in enabling the equitable acquisition and utilization of human capabilities and human rights by women. The Report argued for the full ratification and implementation of all the provisions of the United Nations Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), as well as a wide-ranging movement in Arab civil society that engages both women and men in the struggle to steadily expand the frontier of women's opportunities – for the benefit not only of women but for Arab society as a whole. In particular, the Report calls for the adoption of time-bound affirmative action, tailored to the specificities of each Arab society, in order to expand the participation of women in all fields of human activity. The Report argued that such measures were imperative to dismantle the structures of centuries of discrimination. Arab Human Development Report 2009: Challenges to Human Security in the Arab Countries Critical reception The contents of these reports have not been solely received uncritically. For example, in a response to the first report (2002) published via the Middle East Information and Research Project, Middle East historian Mark Levine welcomed AHDR data as "sorely needed" while also criticizing the overall framework of the study as affirming "bias against Islam and Arab cultural production and political resistance." See also Munira Fakhro, Bahraini advisor to 2004 AHDR References External links Arab Human Development Report Project Web site -- with copies of all the Reports Reports 2002, 2003, 2004, English/Arabic, palestineremembered.com UN Arab Human Development Report 2004 at the UNDP website The Arab Human Development Report Series (2002 – 2005) - an overview, UNDP UN report slams Arab governments, Al Jazeera, April 6, 2005 US accused of stifling UN Arab report, Al Jazeera, December 21, 2004 Arab Human Development Reports, Jazeera, May 20, 2004 Green Shoots in Palestine by Thomas Friedman, New York Times, August 4, 2009 Arab League United Nations Development Programme United Nations reports