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U.N. Calls For Increased Efforts To Reduce Urban Poverty, Improve City Living Conditions
The U.N. marked World Habitat Day Monday with a call for governments worldwide to do more to reduce urban poverty and improve the living conditions populations in cities around the world face, Kenya Broadcasting Corporation reports. "Creating better cities demands the combined efforts of national and local governments, civil society and the private sector, supported by the best efforts of the United Nations system," U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said in a statement released to mark World Habitat Day.
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