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India to step up funding to UN-HABITAT
	New Delhi, 30 Sept 11 The Government of India this week said it would increase its funding to UN-HABITAT. The announcement was made after Executive Director Dr. Joan Clos held talks with Kumari Selja, India's Minister of Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation and Culture.


Assisting urban youth at risk in Latin America
	Barcelona, 29 Sept 11 UN-HABITAT joined the Government of Catalonia in Spain this week at a landmark conference aimed at helping create safer cities in Latin America by assisting urban youth at risk.


Big names sign up to new private sector advisory board
	Amsterdam, 28 Sept 11 The World Business Council for Sustainable Development, VEOLIA Environment, Nomadeis, BASF, This is Africa, Siemens, GDF-SUEZ, JAO Design International, ARUP, the PENN Institute for Urban Research, and the Financial Times joined UN-HABITAT in Amsteram earlier this month for the first meeting of the agency's new Urban Private Sector Advisory Board hosted by Arcadis.


National Observance of World Habitat Day in Kisumu
	Nairobi, 27 Sept 11 The World Habitat Day celebrations will be held at the Jomo Kenyatta Grounds in Kisumu on Monday 3 October 2011.


Mexico leads Global World Habitat Day Celebrations
	Nairobi, 27 Sept 11 The Global Observance of World Habitat Day this year will be held in Aguascalientes, Mexico on Monday 3 October.


Towards more sustainable urban mobility patterns
	Gangwon Province, Korea, 27 Sept 11 A one week training on urban mobility was recently held in Korea targeting Asian cities.


The passing of a giant – Nobel Peace Laureate Wangari Maathai
	Nairobi, Kenya, 26 Sept 11 The first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize, Wangari Maathai of Kenya, died overnight at a Nairobi hospital. Her organization, the Green Belt Movement, said Wangari had been undergoing cancer treatment. She was 71.


Housing for Africa
	Rabat, Morocco, 25 Sept 11 The 12 Bureau Members of the African Ministerial Conference on Housing and Urban Development (AMCHUD) are seeking the establishment of a permanent secretariat to be hosted by Kenya.


Water for Kenya slum residents
	Nairobi, Kenya, 23 Sept 11 UN-HABITAT and the embassy of Malta this week opened a new water supply and treatment plant to provide clean, affordable drinking water for some 4,000 people living in an informal settlement not far from the agency's global headquarters.


UN-HABITAT, partners hold consultative leadership workshop for Vietnamese Province
	Tam Ky, Vietnam , 21 Sept 11 A three day Consultative Leadership Workshop for the Quang Nam Provincial Development Strategy was recently held in Tam Ky City.

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