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India to step up funding to UN-HABITAT
	New Delhi, 30 Sept 11 The Government of India this week said it would increase its funding to UN-HABITAT. The announcement was made after Executive Director Dr. Joan Clos held talks with Kumari Selja, India's Minister of Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation and Culture.


Assisting urban youth at risk in Latin America
	Barcelona, 29 Sept 11 UN-HABITAT joined the Government of Catalonia in Spain this week at a landmark conference aimed at helping create safer cities in Latin America by assisting urban youth at risk.


Big names sign up to new private sector advisory board
	Amsterdam, 28 Sept 11 The World Business Council for Sustainable Development, VEOLIA Environment, Nomadeis, BASF, This is Africa, Siemens, GDF-SUEZ, JAO Design International, ARUP, the PENN Institute for Urban Research, and the Financial Times joined UN-HABITAT in Amsteram earlier this month for the first meeting of the agency's new Urban Private Sector Advisory Board hosted by Arcadis.


Mexico leads Global World Habitat Day Celebrations
	Nairobi, 27 Sept 11 The Global Observance of World Habitat Day this year will be held in Aguascalientes, Mexico on Monday 3 October.


National Observance of World Habitat Day in Kisumu
	Nairobi, 27 Sept 11 The World Habitat Day celebrations will be held at the Jomo Kenyatta Grounds in Kisumu on Monday 3 October 2011.


Towards more sustainable urban mobility patterns
	Gangwon Province, Korea, 27 Sept 11 A one week training on urban mobility was recently held in Korea targeting Asian cities.


The passing of a giant – Nobel Peace Laureate Wangari Maathai
	Nairobi, Kenya, 26 Sept 11 The first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize, Wangari Maathai of Kenya, died overnight at a Nairobi hospital. Her organization, the Green Belt Movement, said Wangari had been undergoing cancer treatment. She was 71.


Housing for Africa
	Rabat, Morocco, 25 Sept 11 The 12 Bureau Members of the African Ministerial Conference on Housing and Urban Development (AMCHUD) are seeking the establishment of a permanent secretariat to be hosted by Kenya.


Water for Kenya slum residents
	Nairobi, Kenya, 23 Sept 11 UN-HABITAT and the embassy of Malta this week opened a new water supply and treatment plant to provide clean, affordable drinking water for some 4,000 people living in an informal settlement not far from the agency's global headquarters.


Regional exchange platform unveiled for ACP countries
	Accra, Ghana, 21 Sept 11 Cities participating in the Participatory Slum Upgrading Programme (PSUP) will benefit from a series of regional exchange forums seen as a concrete step towards the actualization of repeated requests for African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries to tap into each other's potential and experience. FRENCH


UN-HABITAT, partners hold consultative leadership workshop for Vietnamese Province
	Tam Ky, Vietnam , 21 Sept 11 A three day Consultative Leadership Workshop for the Quang Nam Provincial Development Strategy was recently held in Tam Ky City.


Housing, shelter, climate change top Latin America, Caribbean agenda
	Asuncion, Paraguay, 19 Sept 11 Ministers and senior officials from Latin America and the Caribbean MINURVI group last week brought climate change and housing issues to the top of their agenda in preparation for a series of major international and regional meetings.


Port cities under the microscope
	Rotterdam, 15 Sept 11 Mayors and senior local government officials from Africa, Asia and Latin America gathered for the first “Shelter Academy” held 13-15 September 2011 held in Rotterdam, The Netherlands.


Statement on the advisory group on forced evictions press conference
	Nairobi, Kenya, 14 Sept 11 UN-HABITAT has been approached by several media and journalists enquiring about the launching of a report produced for the Advisory Group on Forced Evictions to the Executive Director of UN-HABITAT, known as AGFE on April 2009.


UN-HABITAT and UNODC release guidelines to help prevent crime in urban areas.
	Nairobi, Kenya, 14 Sept 11 Under the Safer Cities Program, UNODC and UNHABITAT have issued a handbook to help prevent crime in cities and towns.


Secretary-General sorrow at Kenya explosion
	Nairobi, 12 Sept 11 Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has expressed his sorrow and sympathy for the families of the victims of a petrol pipeline explosion in a dense Nairobi slum on Monday which claimed scores of lives and left many injured.


Promoting the World Urban Campaign
	Amsterdam, 12 Sept 11 ARCADIS, the international consulting and engineering company, has hosted UN-HABITATs 6th Steering Committee Meeting of the World Urban Campaign (WUC), in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.


UN-HABITAT signs new safer cities agreement with Myanmar
	Nay Pyi Daw, Myanmar, 12 Sept 11 UN-HABITAT this week signed a new safer cities agreement with the Union Government of Myanmar designed to provide disaster resilient and safer settlements in the southeast Asian nation.


The 2011 Scroll of Honour Award Winners
	Nairobi, 12 Sept 11 UN-HABITAT is pleased to announce the 2011 Habitat Scroll of Honour Awards to the following recipients. This is the most prestigious award given by the United Nations in recognition of work carried out in the field of human settlements development. The aim of the award is to honour individuals and institutions instrumental in improving the living conditions in urban centres around the world. For the first time, UN-HABITAT is recognising a set of good practices as well.

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