‘A Safe City is a Just City’
THE United Nations celebrates ‘World Habitat Day’
since 1985 on the first Monday in October of each year to focus the
state of human settlements and the basic rights to adequate shelter
for all. This occasion has been celebrated on several themes by the
UN-Habitat.
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A holistic strategy required to achieve MDGs
While it is feasible for the first UN Millennium
Development Goal -eradicate extreme poverty and hunger by 2015- to
be achieved in South Asia, poverty reduction is intertwined with
other MDGs, whose attainment remains uncertain.
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Indian Ocean Tsunami Warning System
Example from September 12, tsunami:
THE INDIAN OCEAN experienced its most
devastating natural disaster through the action of a tsunami,
resulting from of an earthquake off the coast of Sumatra on December
26, 2004. This resulted in widespread damage both to property and
human lives with over 250,000 deaths in the region and many millions
made homeless.
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