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UN-HABITAT Launches Successful Lake Victoria Clean-Up
	, 8 Oct 05 Kampala, 1 August 2005 – In order to raise awareness among the residents on the need to take better care of Lake Victoria, UN-HABITAT recently launched a successful clean up drive in three towns sitting on the lake.


Colourful Ceremony Marks WHD in Kenya
	Athi River, 4 Oct 05 It was pomp and glamour as dances, poem recitals and performance by a local television drama group took the centre stage during the World Habitat Day national celebrations held at Athi River, a satellite town near the Kenyan capital Nairobi.


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.


African children petition G8
	Nairobi, 8 Jul 05 African school children on Friday presented a petition to the world’s top industrialized countries with a plea to help reduce poverty and give them a hope for a better future.


Financing for shelter and urban development
	Nairobi, Kenya, 11 Apr 05 Government ministers and senior officials from around the world agreed during the UN-HABITAT Governing Council that poor people are not high-risk borrowers as micro-financing initiatives around in many countries have shown.


Sounding the alarm on forced evictions
	Nairobi, Kenya, 7 Apr 05 Saying that the Millennium Development Goals targeted the significant improvement millions of slum dwellers by the year 2020, the Executive Director said not only was the global community falling short of this target with an additional 50 million people having been added to the slums of the world in the past two years, but that the practices of forced evictions were worsening the lives of millions of urban poor each year.


Governments pressed on post-conflict and disaster rehabilitation
	Nairobi, Kenya, 7 Apr 05 National and local government leaders, NGOs and international aid agencies worldwide this week called for more support to help deal with the consequences of to natural and human-made disasters around the world.


BASF responds to UN-HABITAT Tsunami Appeal
	Nairobi, Kenya, 6 Apr 05 The global chemical company, BASF, has signed a partnership agreement with UN-HABITAT under which it will provide US$ 500,000 and technical experts for tsunami relief and rehabilitation work in Sri Lanka.


Grim accounts of poverty, post-conflict and post-disaster crises
	Nairobi, Kenya, 5 Apr 05 Delegates at the plenary of the twentieth session of UN-HABITAT Governing Council listened in grim silence on Tuesday as representatives of three countries suffering the consequences of war, and the tsunami killer wave gave accounts of how they are trying to bring relief to their citizens and secure international aid.


The slow motion urban poverty tsunami
	Nairobi, Kenya, 5 Apr 05 The United States on Tuesday reaffirmed its support for UN-HABITAT when the Governing Council met in plenary on the second day of a five-day conference to devise a work programme aimed stopping what has been called a “slow-motion” tsunami wave of growing urban poverty around the world.

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