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| Habitat Themes | Search results 21 to 30 of 34 |
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Sanitation infrastructures, waste collection and recycling in Rufisque |
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Self-help re-settlement project in Fortaleza |
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Spain warned over construction boom |
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| The United Nations has officially warned Spain that its "uncontrolled building programme" is excluding 25% of the population from owning their own homes, mainly due to the high prices. | |
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Will China honour its Olympic promises? |
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| "The Olympics is good for China... But it should not be used as an excuse to hurt ordinary citizens, to drive people from their homes.” A resident of Beijing's Qianmen district, whose home is to be demolished. When China won the 2008 Olympics bid in 2001, it promised to improve its human rights record. Beyond enhancing procedural safeguards in death penalty cases, that promise remains largely empty. | |
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Human Settlements Caucus Statement |
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| The NGO signatories to this statement, representing civil society organizations working at community levels around the world, have committed to support the recommendations of Agenda 21 (1992), HABITAT II (1996), and the Johannesburg Plan of Implementation | |
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Botswana's bushmen battle for land |
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| The bushmen, of Botswana's Kalahari are a people living in a place, and perhaps a time, that is no longer their own. | |
International Conference on Restructuring Large Housing Estates in Europe |
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Meeting on sustainable architecture and urban planning |
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COHRE and HIC launch a report on the impacts of Plan Puebla Panama related-development projects on the right to housing and to land of rural and indigenous communities in Mexico, Honduras and Guatemala
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| The implementation of the analysed projects of infrastructure, energy and tourism have increased land conflicts and social tension, affirm COHRE and HIC. Development projects must guarantee the respect and fulfillment of the human rights of the affected communities, recommend COHRE and HIC | |
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Over 300,000 people to be forcefully evicted from Yamuna Pushta |
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| In Delhi: 40,000 homes demolished so far | |
Habitat International Coalition General Secretariat |
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