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INTEGRATED BODY FOR URBAN DESIGN POLICY
AND DEVELOPMENT OF MOSCOW
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 Habitat Debate
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| Two decades of Urban Management The UMP was initiated in 1986 at Istanbul, 10 years after the first Habitat conference, and a decade before Habitat II. Its launch marked an important step in the evolution of international thinking on urban development. |
| Our Common Past: the contribution of the Urban Management Programme The two decades of UMP experience
is a valuable depository of knowledge,
innovative best experiences, and new policy
initiatives. Even though the UMP as a
programme has ended, its principles and
knowledge are sustained and used in improving
urban management practices in
the developing countries through various
urban programmes and the urban governance
campaign. |
 The Millennium Declaration and the Habitat AgendaThe Millennium Declaration, the current blueprint for international action on the most crucial development issues, comes four years after the more modest but fundamental set of commitments on human settlements in the Habitat Agenda. Although both documents present large differences in form and content, they reinforce each other in many respects. |
| Bringing the goals to city level The Millennium Declaration to which world leaders pledged themselves in 2000 has become the ‘organizing framework’ for many UN and bilateral programmes. This is because it contains a broad range of internationally agreed development goals ranging from poverty reduction, health, and gender equality to education and environmental sustainability. |
 Fighting urban inequitiesHundreds of millions of people living in cities around the world have no roof over heads, nowhere to turn for help, no access to health services, education, clean water or sanitation, and no rights. |
| Spatial inequalities – the need for affirmative action The concept of affirmative action was born in the 1960’s of the civil rights movement in the USA. Affirmative action policies have been implemented in many countries – particularly India, the United States and South Africa – to redress historical racial and sexual discrimination. In the United Nations, the system of geographical quotas in hiring staff could be viewed as part of the same movement. |
| Housing rights – progress or just rhetoric? The realization of human rights as elaborated in the International Bill of Human Rights (comprising the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cult... |
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