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Implementation of the outcome of the United Nations Conference
on Human Settlements (Habitat II) and strengthening of the
United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat)
Date of consideration: 1 November 2005 (AM)
Second Committee Report
(59th session):
A/59/484
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Documents:
A/60/8(Suppl.)
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Report of the Governing Council of
the United Nations Human Settlements Programme
on the work of its twentieth session (4‑8 April 2005) (Mandate:
GA res. 56/206, sect. IA, para. 7)
A/60/111 [F]
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Letter dated 5 July 2005 from the
Permanent Representative of Jamaica to the United Nations
addressed to the Secretary-General
A/60/168
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Report of the Secretary-General on
the implementation of the outcome of the United Nations
Conference on Human Settlements (Habitat II) and the
strengthening of the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat) (Mandate:
GA res. 59/239, para. 21)
A/60/347
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Note by the Secretary-General on
the coordinated implementation of the Habitat Agenda (ECOSOC
dec. 2005/298)
Summary:
At its thirty-second
session, in 1977, the General Assembly decided that the
Economic and Social Council should transform the Committee on
Housing, Building and Planning into a Commission on Human
Settlements; and decided that the reports of the Commission
would be submitted to the Assembly through the Economic and
Social Council (resolution 32/162).
Pursuant to General
Assembly resolution 47/180, the United Nations Conference on
Human Settlements (Habitat II) was held in Istanbul, Turkey,
from 3 to 14 June 1996. Subsequently, in its resolution
51/177, the Assembly endorsed the decision of the Conference,
including the Istanbul Declaration on Human Settlements and
the Habitat Agenda.
The question was
considered at the forty-ninth, fiftieth and fifty-second to
fifty-eighth sessions (resolutions 49/109, 50/100, 52/190,
53/180, 54/207 to 54/209, 55/194, 55/195, 56/205 and 56/206,
57/275 and 58/226).
At its fifty-fifth
session, the General Assembly decided that the special session
of the Assembly to review and appraise progress made in the
implementation of the Habitat Agenda would be held from 6 to 8 June 2001 in New York (resolution 55/195). At its twenty-fifth
special session, in 2001, the Assembly adopted the Declaration
on Cities and Other Human Settlements in the New Millennium
(resolution S-25/2).
At its fifty-sixth
session, the General Assembly decided to transform, with
effect from 1 January 2002, the Commission on Human
Settlements and its secretariat, the United Nations Centre for
Human Settlements (Habitat), into the United Nations Human
Settlements Programme, to be known as UN-Habitat; and also
decided to transform, as of the same date, the Commission on
Human Settlements into the Governing Council of the United
Nations Human Settlements Programmes, to be known as
UN-Habitat, a subsidiary organ of the General Assembly
(resolution 56/206).
At its fifty-ninth session, the General
Assembly requested UN-Habitat, within its mandate, to continue
to support the efforts of countries affected by natural
disasters and complex emergencies to develop prevention,
rehabilitation and reconstruction programmes for the
transition from relief to development; invited the
Secretary-General to incorporate the assessment of progress
made towards the target of achieving a significant improvement
in the lives of at least 100 million slum-dwellers by 2020 in
his report on the review in 2005 of the implementation of the
United Nations Millennium Declaration; and requested him to
submit a report to the Assembly at its sixtieth session on the
implementation of the resolution (resolution 59/239).
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