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Habitation / Housing

04.05.2005 · Research Group on the Global Future

Cities Without Slums
The "Cities Without Slums" initiative has been endorsed at the highest political level internationally as a challenging vision with specific actions and concrete targets to improve the living conditions of the world's most vulnerable and marginalized urban residents.

The United Nations Human Settlements Programme, UN-HABITAT, is the United Nations agency for human settlements. It is mandated by the UN General Assembly to promote socially and environmentally sustainable towns and cities with the goal of providing adequate shelter for all.

Read the Habitat Agenda of the Habitat II Conference in Instabul´96 and the review of the implementation by the Istanbul+5 session of the UN General Assembly.