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"Human Security" means focusing on individuals and building societies in which everyone can live with dignity, and protecting and empowering individuals and communities that are exposed to actual or potential threats. In concrete terms, it aims at protecting individuals from "fears," such as conflict, terrorism, crime, human-rights violation, displacement, disease epidemics, environmental destruction, economic crises and natural disasters, and "wants" such as poverty, hunger and lack of educational and health services, and empowering people so that they can make choices and take actions for improving the quality of their lives.