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Sounding the alarm on forced evictions
Nairobi, 7 April 2005 - UN-HABITAT Executive Director Mrs. Anna Tibaijuka on Thursday sounded the alarm over increasing cases of forced evictions of the poor around the world saying the practice was thwarting efforts of the Millennium Declaration seeking to improve the lives of slum dwellers
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Governments pressed on post-conflict and disaster rehabilitation
Nairobi, 7 April, 2005 - National and local government leaders, NGOs and international aid agencies worldwide this week called for more support to help deal with the consequences of to natural and human-made disasters around the world.
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BASF responds to UN-HABITAT Tsunami Appeal
Nairobi, 6 April 2005 - The global chemical company, BASF, has signed a partnership agreement with UN-HABITAT under which it will provide US$ 500,000 and technical experts for tsunami relief and rehabilitation work in Sri Lanka.
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Governments urged to help strengthen local authorities
Nairobi, 6 April 2005 - Meeting under the auspices of a formal
United Nations dialogue at the twentieth session of UN-HABITAT’s
Governing Council, national and local government representatives discussed
new ways of strengthening local authorities around the world.
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Improving local governance – a government and civil society dialogue
Nairobi, 6 April, 2005 - On the opening day of the twentieth session of UN-HABITAT’s Governing Council, national and local governments and civil society representatives discussed a wide range of issues on the involvement of civil society in local governance.
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Grim accounts of poverty, post-conflict and post-disaster crises
Nairobi, 5 April 2005 - Delegates at the plenary of the twentieth session of UN-HABITAT Governing Council listened in grim silence on Tuesday as representatives of three countries suffering the consequences of war, and the tsunami killer wave gave accounts of how they are trying to bring relief to their citizens and secure international aid.
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Delegates Express Satisfaction with Lake Victoria Project
Nairobi, 5 April 2005 - Delegates at the twentieth session of the Governing Council of UN-HABITAT on Tuesday hailed the Lake Victoria Water and Sanitation Initiative saying it offered great potential in the fight against poverty in the three East African countries and beyond.
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The slow motion urban poverty tsunami
Nairobi, 5 April 2005 - The United States on Tuesday reaffirmed its support for UN-HABITAT when the Governing Council met in plenary on the second day of a five-day conference to devise a work programme aimed stopping what has been called a “slow-motion” tsunami wave of growing urban poverty around the world.
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UN-HABITAT Governing Council opens
Nairobi, 4 April, 2005 - The 20th session of the Governing Council of UN-HABITAT opened on Monday with a special tribute to the late Pope John Paul II and a call on governments to beef up support for the Millennium pledges to fight poverty with all its ramifications for slum dwellers and other poor people around the world.
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UN-HABITAT seeks major revision of millennium pledge on slums
Nairobi, 4 April 2005 - UN-HABITAT’s Executive Director, Mrs. Anna Tibaijuka on Monday called for a revision of the Millennium pledge on slums, saying the target set by world leaders at the dawn of the new century five years ago was too modest.
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Gearing up for the 20th Governing Council
Nairobi, 3 April, 2005 - Delegates from around the world started gathering in Nairobi at the weekend for the Twentieth Governing Council of UN-HABITAT, a major international gathering on the United Nations calendar this week that is expected to give new impetus towards achieving the Millennium goals.
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