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| UNITED NATIONS |
UN Secretary General Kofi Annan on Wednesday recommended public-private partnerships, the empowerment of women and extended property rights as ways of tackling the poverty in the world's growing cities.
"Today, urban areas are the major driving forces of development and globalisation," he told a special three-day session of the UN General Assembly.
"But with the shift to cities, many of society's inequities and ills and becoming more and more urban."
The special session is a follow-up to the second global conference on human settlements, held in 1996 in Istanbul.
Annan noted that two-thirds of the cities in developing countries do not have waste-water treatment, and that in countries with economies in transition, 75 percent of solid waste is disposed of in open ... |
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| KHAN YUNIS, Gaza Strip |
As Mohammed Shawaf unloaded heavy flour sacks from a UN Palestinian relief agency truck in this poverty-stricken town, at the frontline of recent fighting, he vowed "the resistance will continue."
Ask Palestinians here whether they respect Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, they will say 'of course'. ... |
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| UNITED NATIONS |
Stressing the potential value of the world's cities, as well as the concentration of poverty there, a new UN report on Monday said national governments should pay more attention to urban development.
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| HARARE |
Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe says the International Monetary Fund must be reformed to force it to support developing countries regardless of their political or rights records, the state-owned Herald said Monday.
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| ULAN BATOR |
Filthy, aggressive and dressed in rags, the street children of Ulan Bator are the victims of a Mongolian society riven by domestic violence and torn apart by breakneck social changes.
Typically aged between five and 14, the ... |
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| WASHINGTON |
The World Bank on Friday said it had approved a seven million dollar credit for the Palestinian Authority to improve educational management in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
The funds will support efforts to enhance educational ... |
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| WASHINGTON |
Uganda has been awarded a 150 million dollar credit from the World Bank, the first beneficiary of a new program designed specifically to combat poverty, the Bank announced here Friday.
It said the World Bank's board of directors approved a "poverty reduction support credit" for the east African country on Thursday to support the implementation of programs outlined in its poverty reduction strategy paper.
Uganda is one of four low-income countries to have drafted such a document and the first to receive Bank funding to put it into effect.
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| MOSCOW |
Russia's children are at risk from poverty, crime and disease, with some 2.5 million homeless kids, while only 10 percent of school leavers are said to be healthy, experts warned Friday on World Protection of Children Day.
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