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REPORTS, GUIDES, DECLARATIONS and more...
Browse through UN-HABITAT’s library of reports, resolutions, declarations, training materials and best practices, by theme, or view them alphabetically and chronologically |
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The Urban Penalty: The Poor Die Young |
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The five illnesses that cause more than half of the deaths amongst children are pneumonia, diarrhoea, malaria,
measles and HIV/AIDS. Studies indicate that the prevalence of these killer diseases in urban slums is due to bad
living conditions rather than income levels. For instance, municipal supplies of safe drinking water rarely penetrate
slums. It is common for pit latrines to be shared by thousands of people.
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Urban Features: Children, Slums' First Casualties |
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The average age of the developing world’s population is 16 years compared to a global average of 28 years. Nearly half the global population was born less than a quarter century ago. With 1.2 billion people under 15, it can be said that the world belongs to young people. But for the millions of youth in slums, the present as well as the future is grim.
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Women's safety audits for a safer urban design: Results of the pilot audit (25 August 2007) |
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Feelings of insecurity and fear of crime and violence are highest in large cities. Urban design and planning do not create violence or other forms of assault, but they do create an environment that offers greater or lesser opportunities for violence. Making public spaces physically safer is one way to reduce the opportunities for assaults and the fear of crime.
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Conference Report - Fourth Web for Development Conference,Nairobi, Kenya, 28-30 November 2007 |
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The meeting was convened to examine the theme, Driving Economic and Social Development with the Internet. Access to the web is limited. Some 450 million people worldwide are connected to computers. By contrast, only 14 percent of the global telephone users have Internet access. This is due to poor computer skills, illiteracy, and disabilities in a world where access is mainly visual and costly.
For these reasons, the digital divide with people at the bottom of the social pyramid in any country cannot be easily be bridged using the present computer-based technological ICT set up.
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Gender and Post-crisis Reconstruction (DRAFT 0): A Practitioner’s Handbook |
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The nature and frequency of both natural and human-caused disasters have changed dramatically in recent decades. Nowadays disasters often comprise a toxic mix of trans-border or global phenomena which threaten the life or wellbeing of people. For example, chronic poverty, massive population movements, organized trans-border crime, environmental degradation and an increased spread of deadly infectious diseases make the impact of disasters or conflict worse and the affected population more vulnerable to new or additional threats. In addition, the irreversible trend towards urbanization puts particular emphasis on urban risk, which comprises factors such as violence, unemployment, pollution, and poor health.
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Summary Report - Day 2