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World Summit highlights – the Millennium Development Goals and the City
	New York, 16 Sept 05 In the lead-up to the UN World Summit in New York, UN-HABITAT participated in a public symposium on “The Millennium Development Goals and the City” – the theme of World Habitat Day on Monday 3, October.


Summit highlights – a home in the city
	New York, 16 Sept 05 UN-HABITAT experts told officials gathered for the world summit in New York this week how innovative new financing mechanisms could have a major impact in reducing urban poverty and improving the lives of slum dwellers.


Annan opens Summit with plea for world's poorest
	New York, 14 Sept 05 The 2005 World Summit, the largest gathering ever of international leaders, opened at United Nations Headquarters in New York today with a warning from Secretary-General Kofi Annan that “millions of lives and the hopes of billions” rest on fulfilling the pledges contained in the meeting’s outcome document.


UN-HABITAT releases major new report on urban financing
	London, 12 Sept 05 By the year 2030, an additional 3 billion people making up about 40 percent of the global population will need housing, according to UN-HABITAT’s latest flagship report released on Monday, Financing Urban Shelter: Global Report on Human Settlements 2005.


Annan warns world mayors on urban poverty
	New York, 9 Sept 05 UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan told a gathering of world mayors and other city officials on Thursday that over the next 30 years virtually all of the world’s population growth would occur in the urban areas of low and middle-income countries.


Tibaijuka thanks Britain for support to UN-HABITAT
	Nairobi, 9 Sept 05 UN-HABITAT’s Executive Director, Mrs. Anna Tibaijuka, this week expressed appreciation to the Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland for its support for the organization.


New Chinese aid for Maldives
	Malé, Maldives,, 15 Aug 05 The Government of Maldives on Monday launched a project financed by the Government of China that will provide half a million US dollars worth of aid to two remote islands in the Maldives that were devastated by last year’s tsunami.


UN Special Envoy on Zimbabwean evictions briefs Security Council
	New York, 27 Jul 05 The United Nations Special Envoy on housing evictions in Zimbabwe, Mrs. Anna Tibaijuka, today briefed the Security Council on her two-week visit to the southern African country where the demolition of housing and markets have left some 700,000 people without homes or businesses.


Tsunami assistance in Thailand
	Bangkok, 27 Jul 05 UN-HABITAT and UNDP have signed an agreement to support local government organizations in participatory rehabilitation planning in areas of Thailand hit by last December’s tsunami killer wave.


Zimbabwe’s evictions carried out with ‘indifference to human suffering,’ Mrs. Tibaijuka says
	New York, 25 Jul 05 UN Special Envoy and Executive Director of UN-HABITAT, Mrs. Anna Tibaijuka presented her report to the Secretary General on Friday with calls to the Government of Zimbabwe to stop the demolition of homes and markets, pay reparations to those who have lost housing and livelihoods and punish those who, “with indifference to human suffering,” carried out the evictions of some 700,000 people.

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