with loads of threats in many areas. National and international armed conflict, natural disasters, terrorism, poverty and economic crisis create hardships and endanger peace and development. Often, when these insecurities overlap, they can affect every aspect of people’s lives, destroying communities and separating families which can make entire regions insecure. Addressing these insecurities is a central pillar in the agenda of sustainable development as human security provides protection of the integrity of the individual. The use of the term ‘security’ encourages states to take citizens seriously because if citizens are insecure state destabilisation may occur (Howard-Hassman, 2012). Though national security is still important in protecting and ensuring security to all citizens, the state cannot always guarantee this protection. The development of the human security model shows signs of influence from the human rights tradition: both use individuals and both argue that issues such as civil rights, healthcare, and access to education are crucial to human dignity. Human security “not only helps us evaluate the effectiveness of our security policies, but it also highlights the importance of preventative action to reduce vulnerability and points the way for remedial action, where prevention fails” (Axworthy, 1990). Human security framework focuses on “early warning and prevention” (Fukuda-Parr, 2003) adding to the established human rights regime as it uses a range of actors and creates issue-specific approaches which can function on a national and international scale. The goal of human security is to go beyond the concept of national security in order to force states to focus on the needs of their citizens. International human rights laws oblige states to respect and protect individual rights that are often considered political, human security on the other hand de-politicises threats and allows states to adopt human rights obligations into policy discussions which lead to the creation of new policies about human rights – this is often considered to be the broad definition of human security. The issue with the broader view of human security is that it often refers to threats already identified in human rights law instead of acknowledging new threats, state duties or remedies to human insecurity. The narrower view of human security may thus provide for better understanding in identifying new or more severe threats aimed at focusing on every individual. A narrower view of human security was proposed in the 1994 United Nations Development Progra>