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Mrs. Tibaijuka demands better legislation to underwrite women’s empowerment
	Nairobi, 31 Jan 06 UN-HABITAT Executive Director Mrs. Anna Tibaijuka on Monday called on world governments to enact legislation that will ensure that women achieved gender equality in accessing human settlements.


UN-HABITAT’s Deputy Executive Director receives Francophone ambassadors
	Nairobi, 27 Jan 06 UN-HABITAT’s Deputy Executive Director, Ms. Inga Bjork-Klevby, on Thursday received ambassadors from Francophone countries to reassure them that the agency was doing all it could to take French language considerations into account at its major meetings like the forthcoming Third Session of the World Urban Forum in Vancouver, Canada.


A new Arab League Representative to UN-HABITAT
	Nairobi, 27 Jan 06 The new Permanent Representative of the League of Arab States to UN-HABITAT, Mr. Salim Mohammed Al-Khussaibi, on Thursday presented his credentials to the Executive Director of UN-HABITAT, Mrs. Anna Tibaijuka.


Remembering the Holocaust
	Nairobi, 27 Jan 06 United Nations staff, members of the diplomatic community and hundreds of school children on Friday gathered in a solemn candle lighting ceremony to mark the first ever International Day of Commemoration in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust.


United Arab Emirates to build 1,000 homes for Sri Lanka tsunami victims
	Colombo, 27 Jan 06 The Red Crescent Society of the United Arab Emirates this week signed two agreements with UN-HABITAT to provide funding for the construction of 1,000 houses in areas of Galle, Trincomalee, Ampara and Kattankudy devastated by the December 2004 tsunami killer wave. The agreements were signed by Mr. Abdullah Al-Mahmood of Red Crescent Society, UAE and Mr. Lalith Lankatillake, Regional Advisor of UN-HABITAT.


UN-HABITAT calls for stricter building regulations in wake of Nairobi disaster
	Nairobi, 26 Jan 06 UN-HABITAT ‘s Executive Director, Mrs. Anna Tibaijuka, on Wednesday called on city authorities in the Kenyan capital to suspend all ongoing multi-storey building work until better inspection measures are enforced. Her comments were made during a visit to the ruins of a building that collapsed this week claiming at least 14 lives, and leaving more than 100 injured with an unknown number of people still unaccounted for.


Kisumu declared world’s first Millennium City
	Kisumu, 24 Jan 06 The western Kenyan city of Kisumu on the shores of Lake Victoria has been officially designated the first United Nations Millennium City in the world.


Social Housing competitions launched in Serbia and Montenegro
	Belgrade, 24 Jan 06 UN-HABITAT, the Ministry for Capital Investments and the Union of Architects in Serbia has successfully launched a series of competitions in local cities for new social housing designs aimed and consolidating reforms in the housing sector.


Developing a national strategy to harvest rainwater in Nepal
	Kathmandu, 19 Jan 06 More than 100 people this week discussed ways of devising a new national strategy to harvest rainwater in towns and settlements in the Kathmandu Valley and other parts of Nepal.


Algeria to build 1 million new housing units Nairobi
	Nairobi, 17 Jan 06 The Algerian Government is to build one million housing units to ease accommodation problems in the country.


Italy releases further funding for Serbian housing programme
	Belgrade, 17 Jan 06 UN-HABITAT has received 8.5 million dollars from the Italian Government for a social and housing integration programme for tens of thousands of war refugees and other vulnerable people in Serbia.


UN-HABITAT signs new social housing improvement programme for southeast Europe
	Brussels, 16 Jan 06 UN-HABITAT and the Stability Pact for South Eastern Europe signed a co-operation agreement this week paving the way for improving urban development and social housing in southeast Europe


Boosting secure tenure and good urban governance in the Middle East
	Cairo, 16 Jan 06 Delegates at an Arab cities meeting held in Cairo last month agreed to promote UN-HABITAT’s campaigns for secure tenure and good urban governance and stressed the need for land strategies for the region


Monitoring
	, 6 Jan 06 A key function of UN-HABITAT in fulfilling its mandate is the monitoring of global trends and conditions and the assessment of progress in implementing the Habitat Agenda at the international, regional, national and local levels.


UN-HABITAT Deputy Executive Director Assumes Office
	Nairobi, 5 Jan 06 The new year begins on a high note with Mrs. Anna Tibaijuka, the Executive Director, welcoming Ms. Inga Björk-Klevby, the new Deputy Executive Director to UN-HABITAT.


Africa after 2005
	Nairobi, 5 Jan 06 As 2005, the year of Africa concludes successfully, it is important not only to celebrate the many achievements of the Commission for Africa, in highlighting the problems and possibilities of Africa, but also to remember that 2006 is the year of implementation of the recommendations put forward by the Commissioners,” said Mrs. Anna Tibaijuka, the Executive Director of UN-HABITAT and one of the Commissioners for Africa who advised Prime Minister Tony Blair on policies to improve the situation on the continent.

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