Enhancing Urban Safety and Security addresses three major threats to the safety and security of cities: crime and violence; insecurity of tenure and forced evictions; and natural and human-made disasters.

Women’s equal rights to adequate housing, land and property are well elaborated under international human rights law but are often elusive in practice.

The Millennium Development Goal 7 target 10 targets access to safe drinking water supply and basic sanitation to the under privileged.

This publication is the second report of the Advisory Group on Forced Evictions (AGFE) to the Executive Director of UN-HABITAT.

L’octroi effectif aux femmes des droits au sol, à la propriété et au logement est l’un des défis les plus difficiles auxquels ait à faire face le monde contemporain.

La misère est le lot d’une grande partie de l’humanité. Un sur cinq d’entre nous tous vit dans un taudis. La moitié d’entre nous manquent de sanitaires de base.

Sanitation services are necessary to support urban stability, enable social balance, economic growth and development and are imperative for the improvement of urban public services.

Throughout history, conflicts have been waged over land. Confrontations over territory, border disputes, occupation of the territory of one State by another, or grievances stemming from inequitable access to land invariably have dramatic consequences for human settlements.

This Compendium has been compiled to accompany the Workshop on Strategies and best practices in crime prevention, in particular in relation to urban crime and youth at risk in the context of the 11th UN Congress on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice in Bangkok, Thailand from 18-25th April 2005.