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WORLD HABITAT DAY
The United Nations has designated the first Monday in October every year as World Habitat Day to reflect on the state of human settlements and the basic right to adequate shelter for all. It is also intended to remind the world of its collective responsibility for the future of the human habitat.
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GLOBAL OBSERVANCE IN JAKARTA
© UN-habitat Jakarta, October 3, 2005 – World Habitat Day was celebrated in towns and cities around the world on Monday at ceremonies, seminars and meetings attended by many government and local authority representatives to reflect on the state of human settlements, especially the living conditions of the urban poor and their basic right to adequate shelter. This year the theme of the occasion, spearheaded this year from Jakarta, Indonesia, was "The Millennium Development Goals and the City."
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The Global Observance of World Habitat Day will be held in Jakarta, Indonesia to remind the world that countless thousands of homes were destroyed last December by the tsunami killer wave that so devastated Indonesia's Banda Aceh coastline and other Indian Ocean countries.
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