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Article: First World Urban Forum Opens in Kenya
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- Xinhua News Agency
- Article date:
- April 29, 2002
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The first session of the World Urban Forum Opened here Monday at
the headquarters of the U.N. Human Settlements Program (UN-Habitat).
The forum which attracted more than 600 representatives from
governments, civil societies and slums from over 70 countries
worldwide is a "path-breaking global initiatives to address the main
challenge of this century, the transition to an urban world",said UN-
Habitat Executive Director Anna Tibaijuka at the opening session.
She said that in 1950, two-thirds of all people on the earth lived
in the countryside, but by 2050, two-thirds of them will be at home
in the city.
"In a democracy, the urbanization process is irreversible,"
shesaid, noting that this is ...