Ten Threats

The ten threats identified in 2004 by the High Level Threat Panel of the United Nations are these:

1. Poverty
2. Infectious disease
3. Environmental degradation
4. Inter-state war
5. Civil war
6. Genocide
7. Other Atrocities (e.g., trade in women and children for sexual slavery, or kidnapping for body parts)
8. Weapon of mass destruction (nuclear proliferation, chemical weapon proliferation, biological weapon proliferation)
9. Terrorism
10. Transnational organized crime

External links

• Ten Threats in High Level Threat Panel report