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Delegates get down to business at World Urban Forum
	Naples, Italy, 5 Sept 12 Delegates at the Sixth Session of the World Urban Forum get down to serious business Monday and Tuesday as they dicussed various aspects of urbanization in many parts of the world.


UN-Habitat announces 2012 Scroll of Honour Winners
	Naples, Italy, 4 Sept 12 UN-Habitat on Tuesday announced the 2012 Scroll of Honour Award winners.


Manifesto for Cities launched
	Naples, Italy, 4 Sept 12 The landmark Manifesto for Cities, a document representing the consensus of all partners engaged in promoting the Habitat Agenda was launched Monday at the ongoing Sixth Session of the World Urban Forum.


Italian Minister officially opens the World Urban Forum
	Naples, Italy, 3 Sept 12 At exactly 10.36 a.m. local time, Italy’s Vice Minister for Foreign Affairs Mr. Staffani di Mistura symbolically banged a hammer on the table to officially open the Sixth Session of the World Urban Forum currently underway in Naples, Italy.


Sixth Session of World Urban Forum kicks off in Naples
	Naples, 2 Sept 12 A football match, youth and gender assemblies as well as the launch of a new report marked the beginning of the Sixth Session of the World Urban Forum which kicked off in this scenic Italian city at the weekend.


UN-Habitat and UN Women sign MoU to strengthen partnership
	Naples, Italy, 2 Sept 12 UN-Habitat and UN Women have signed a Memorandum of Understanding aimed at strengthening the two agencies’ collaboration in areas of common interest.


Ban appoints Clos Secretary-General for Habitat III summit
	New York, 31 Aug 12 United Nations Secretary-General Mr. Ban Ki-moon on Friday appointed UN-Habitat's Executive Director, Dr. Joan Clos, Secretary-General for the Habitat III summit conference at which world leaders will gather to discuss the global urban agenda.


Pupils learn flood risk management in Kampala
	Kampala, 23 Aug 12 Pupils at Outspan Primary School in Bwaise, a poor, flood-prone neighbourhood in Kampala, Uganda, are learning how to collect meteorological data – and, along the way, something about how climate change increasingly will affect their lives. Two times a day they measure the amount of rain that has fallen over the past several hours at their school grounds. They then jot down observations on the duration of the rainfall and its effect in terms of flooding of their school yard.


UN-Habitat and UNESCAP join hands in solid waste management project
	Karachi, 15 Aug 12 UN-Habitat and UNESCAP have launched a pilot project for Solid Waste Management in the cities of Karachi, Rawalpindi, Islamabad and Mardan.


Government of India and UN-Habitat to reconstruct 16,800 h ouses in Sri Lanka
	Colombo, 15 Aug 12 The Government of India last month signed an agreement with UN-Habitat to assist the reconstruction of 16,800 houses for conflict affected returnees in the Northern Province of the neighbouring Sri Lanka.

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