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World Urban Forum 5 Brochure
 UN-HABITAT is pleased to issue a special brochure to announce the Fifth session of the World Urban Forum in Rio de Janeiro which will be held from 22 to 26 March 2010. The theme of the forum in 2010 is "The Right to the City: Bridging the Urban ...
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UN-HABITAT Visit to the Kingdom of Bahrain
 The UN-HABITAT delegation was led by Mr. Alain Grimard, Senior Human Settlements Officer for the Regional Office for Africa and the Arab States. He was accompanied by Mr. Filiep Decorte, Chief Technical Advisor, Palestine, Mr. Nael Salman, Habitat ...
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President Obama speaks out on World Habitat Day
 President Barack Obama said in a special World Habitat Day message on Monday that his administration was looking towards stronger partnerships with other organizations in addressing the challenges facing American people, including housing
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Lebanon: Access for the disabled
 Thousands of people with physical disabilities are unable to access new buildings being reconstructed in Southern Lebanon, according to a new report released here
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Market for North Lebanon residents
 For the victims of the 2007 conflict in Nahr El Bared, there are better reasons to look forward to market day, thanks to a new local market targeting producers, farmers and craftsmen
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Establishment of Urban Observatories in Syria
 A training workshop was held in Damascus for the establishment of a national urban observatory within the Ministry of Local Administration and Environment of the Syrian Arab Republic in addition to the establishment of a pilot local urban observatory ...
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Media and Housing: Partnership for Development
 A number of housing practitioners, Arab cable networks, journalists, NGOs and government officials from Jordan, Egypt and Iraq met in Amman to discuss media’s role in reflecting the concerns of the housing sector to the public and decision makers thr ...
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Lebanon: Good Governance for Post-War Reconstruction
 UN-HABITAT is implementing a two-year reconstruction project in Southern Lebanon targeting around 4,000 families whose houses were totally destroyed as a result of July war 2006. The overall goal of this project is to respond to immediate assistance ...
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European Commission Supports UN-HABITAT Projects in Lebanon
.jpg) UN-HABITAT successfully accomplished two operations in Lebanon funded by the European Union Humanitarian Aid department (ECHO) that have rebuilt and renovated thousands of homes hit in Israeli air raids during the summer 2006 war. Some 3,640 families ...
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Indicators on Municipal Financial Management in Bahrain
 Under the patronage of H.E. Mr. Mansour Bin Hassan Bin Rajab, Minister of Municipal Affairs and Agriculture, a workshop on municipal financial management indicators was held in the city of Manama, Kingdom of Bahrain. The workshop is part of the progr ...
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Establishment of Urban Observatory in Amman
 Eng. Amer Al-Bashir, Greater Amman Municipality Deputy Governor, has concluded the specialized training workshop on the development and urban indicators for the establishment of the local urban observatory of Greater Amman Municipality in the Hashemi ...
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Syrian State of the Cities Report
 GTZ, the German Technical Cooperation in Syria through its programme for Sustainable Urban Development (UDP) held a one day consultative meeting on possible production of the Syrian State of the Cities Report (SSCR).
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Regional Conference Opened in Amman
 Under the patronage of their Excellencies Minister of Planning and International Cooperation, Mrs. Suhair Al-Ali, and Minister of Municipal Affairs, Mr. Shehadeh Abou Hudaib, the Regional Conference “Initiatives and Innovations of Development in the ...
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World HABITAT Day 2007
 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.
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Iraq National Habitat Committee visits UK
 A one-week visit to the UK was arranged with aim to expose senior officials and members of the Iraqi Human Settlements Committee to recent knowledge and understanding of a range of housing development and housing finance issues, based on the experien ...
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In 1996, during the Habitat II Conference in Istanbul, the right to housing was enshrined, and the Right to the City was launched successfully on a world level. The Urban Forums that took place after Istanbul narrowed their focus to cities at the sam ...
A meeting was held in Damascus for the follow-up and assessment of the operational activities for the establishment of the National Urban Observatory, within the Ministry of Local Administration and Environment of the Syrian Arab Republic, and of the ...
A two-day workshop on the establishment of Jordan National Urban Observatory has taken place in Amman, with the participation of 30 representatives from the Ministry of Municipal Affairs, Ministry of Planning and International Cooperation, Ministry o ...
In cooperation with the Ministry of Municipal Affairs in the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, and Al-Madinah Al-Monawarah Municipality in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia; UN-HABITAT is organizing a workshop on the establishment and operation of Jordan Nation ...
A delegation from UN-HABITAT Iraq Programme, comprising the Programme Manager and Rehabilitation Expert visited the Badawa neighbourhood in Erbil to have a first hand view of recently completed works under the RCFI Project that involved addition/upgr ...
Messages from the UN Secretary General and UN-HABITAT Executive Director on the occasion of World Habitat Day 2007
