Since the 1980s, there has been growing recognition of the need to ensure women's equal access to urban public spaces. Many initiatives to mainstream gender by local governments have been documented. Some are comprehensive and are based on supportive policies. Others are ad hoc and address specific issues, sometimes due to crises. Whatever the context, the initiatives provide lessons that other can learn from. this book documents such initiatives.
Organismo promotor:UNHABITAT
 

Local governments are increasingly realizing the importance and benefits of addressing gender equality and equity in their decision making, policies, programmes and services. Many are rising to the challenge. This source book is intended to help improve understanding of the problems involved. It is designed as a companion to other UN-HABITAT training tools, providing local government trainers with the background and tested training methods they need to strengthen the gender dimension in their day-to-day training activities.

This photo book focuses on different humanitarian problems facing the urban poor by taking illustrations from different cities around the world. We cover a range of ills that affect the urban poor such as the lack of decent housing, water, work, sanitation, protection from nature and vulnerability to food deficit and slum violence. This book is a collaboration between UN-HABITAT and IRIN and is designed to coincide with the World Habitat Day on 1 October 2007. It focuses specifically on the human penalty of growing cities and slums.
Organismo promotor:UNHABITAT
 

"Throughout history, conflicts have been waged over land. Many of these conflicts have direct effects on the control over land and the rights of people relating to land and cause innumerable denials of housing, land and property (HLP) rights. These are human rights under international human rights law, and are increasingly recognised as such within the domestic laws of all countries by formal, customary and other national legal structures.