Nepali News: “Housing provision is so central to social and economic development that policymakers need to act on this rather than continue to treat the activity as a mere social good, the author of a new book on the subject said.”

“Building prosperity: housing and economic development” a book by Dr Anna Tibaijuka covers the subject of housing as it relates to economic development.  Tibaijuka is head of UN-HABITAT, an organization dedicated to “promoting sustainable urban development and adequate shelter for all.”

A blog post at Zunia.org has short commentary on the book.

Dr. Anna Kajumulo Tibaijuka is an Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations and Executive Director of the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-HABITAT).   Tibaijuka is the first African woman to hold this post.

African Success has a biography of Tibaijuka.

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Rights Council Vents Over Magnitsky The advisory group, created under then-President Vladimir Putin, has enjoyed a more prominent role in Medvedev’s Kremlin, but it is less critical of the government than independent rights groups.

“One of the presentations mentioned that the acquittal rate in Russian courts is less than 1 percent. The president seemed surprised and promised to look into it,” Oreshkin said.

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Read more about Russia’s Civil Society Institutions and Human Rights Council headed by Ella Pamfilova, a Presidential candidate in 2000.

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Read coverage of the story of the prison death of Sergei Magnitsky in a BBC article

He (Bill Browder) told the BBC that his lawyer, Sergei Magnitsky, had in effect been “held hostage and they killed their hostage.”

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