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Habitat III

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Buenos Aires, Argentina: luxury skyscrapers contrast with a shanty town of small brick dwellings with aluminium roofs. It is estimated that 10 per cent of the city's population lives in informal settlements (Photo: Mark Edwards/IIED)

Facing an increasingly urban world

Insight, 13 May 2016

An image of an open sewer in the Kibera informal settlement, in Nairobi, Kenya, Refugees in such informal settlements face even more challenges than existing habitatants to access to services, such as language barriers (Photo: Eoghan Rice/Trócaire)

Revealing the hidden refugees in African cities

Insight, 06 May 2016

Residents of Sitio San Roque, Philippines, watch a demolition team tear down their houses during an eviction (Photo: Alamy)

Briefing: Will Habitat III produce an effective "new urban agenda?"

Event on 05 May 2016

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