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States parties must therefore immediately take the necessary measures to prevent, diminish and eliminate the conditions and attitudes that cause or perpetuate substantive or de facto discrimination; for example, ensuring that all individuals have equal access to adequate housing, water and sanitation will help to overcome discrimination against women and girl children and persons living in informal settlements and rural areas.

In light of the observed overall enrolment parity, with a slightly higher level for women, affirmative action measures are confined to groups such as indigenous women, rural dwellers, women in quilombo communities, Afro-descendents, disabled persons and older persons.

In addition to that, according to art. 4 of Law (A.N.) 263/1968 as amended with art. 2, para. 1 of Statute decree (N.D.) 1154/1972 and art. 1, para. 1 of Law 719/1977, a squatter on public property may request to buy off the property; if the squatter does not request to buy it off, he/she can be evicted on the basis of a protocol of administrative eviction.

Covenant House provides education, job training, job placement and other services that empower homeless young people to be employed and lead stable, productive lives outside the slums.

It was also working to pacify the slums, particularly in the context of work carried out with young journalists by Plan, a non-governmental organisation.

[...] [...] HIV in urban squatter settlements; [...] [...]

There are no road systems near most slums, and those that do exist are unpaved and are damaged during the rainy season each year.

Awarding to the project of the prestigious EDRA prize (Environmental Design and Research Association prize); Completion of the CD-ROM based on GUIC addressing Environmental Education for young people, and has been marketed with the manual; Response by the municipality of Greater Johannesburg to the needs of the squatter camp residents to upgrade and subsidise their housing needs as a result of this project.

[...] [...] students living in shanty towns in Nouméa.

Recalling the main points of her report, she underlined the seriousness of climate change, its extreme manifestations and its impact on informal and unserviced settlements, on human mobility, and on small islands and low-lying coastal areas.

Monaco’s cooperation supports efforts to gain universal access to education, without discrimination, through the financing of cultural centres or educational programmes for poor youth living in shantytowns or children of refugees.

As a measure to provide sufficient quality and affordable housing for all citizens, especially for those in the lower income group, Malaysia under the 9MP, encourages the private sector to build more low- and low-medium-cost houses in their mixed-development projects while the public sector concentrates on building low-cost houses for squatters and the poor in urban and rural areas.

[...] [...] detention camps, in shanty towns established [...] [...]

[...] [...] urbanization and shanty settlements should be prevented, and effective measures on construction safety [...]

[...] [...] slums and squatter settlements.

The poor must urgently become the focus of urban planning and provided with access to affordable, well-located and higher-quality buildings in order to avoid further expansion of informal settlements and protect populations from extreme weather conditions.

[...] in slums and shanty towns.

All  settlements  are  considered  ‘squatter’  settlements;  the  largest  of  these  is  located  in  Mokattam  and has approximately 60,000 inhabitants.