Boletín CF+S > 17/18 -- Tercer Catálogo de Buenas Prácticas Españolas. Estambul+5 > http://habitat.aq.upm.es/boletin/n17/acott.html |
Edita: Instituto Juan de Herrera. Av. Juan de Herrera 4. 28040 MADRID. ESPAÑA. ISSN: 1578-097X
Cesare Ottolini, european coordinator.
Padua (Italia), 1 de junio de 2001
For the kind attention of the Governmental Delegations to the
UNGASS on Istanbul+5 (New York, June 6-8 2001) and of Anna
Kajumulo Tibaijuka Executive Director UNCHS (Habitat)
I am writing on behalf of Habitat International Coalition, whose
European focal point I coordinate. I wish to underline the
importance of the next UN General Assembly, summoned for
examining the progresses achieved and the difficulties met in the
implementation of the Habitat Agenda, for the life and the
expectations of billions of people in all the world.
During these five years that have separated us from the Istanbul
summit, we have participated to numerous institutional and
associational initiatives, promoting the knowledge of the Habitat
Agenda, controlling the respect of the commitments assumed by the
governments, but also attempting to favor their application
through a major involvement of the associations in partnerships
with the different protagonists of the habitat and urban issues.
Unfortunately, we must make evident that the balance of the
Habitat Agenda is disappointing in the major part of the
countries and the regions: precarious habitat conditions have
increased, the gap between rich and poor countries is widening,
and paradoxically, the lack of involvement of the public powers
from social and urban policies is growing.
The closure clearly manifested during the Nairobi Prepcom and
continuing afterwards, make us fear that the commitments made
with the Habitat Agenda and, in particular, that the campaigns
on «Security of Tenure», «Good Urban Governance», and the program
«Cities Without Slums» will definitely be put aside. On the basis
of a discussion that has witnessed the involvement of habitant
associations, NGOs, public administrators, managers of social
housing, researchers, cooperatives, but also the institutions of
the European Union, we have therefore launched the Appeal that
you will find here underneath. In very few days, utilizing only
internet, we have gathered very numerous signatures, coming from
representants of civil society, associations and institutions
that organize tens of millions of habitants in all of Europe and
not only.
We send this Appeal, with the hope that you are willing to take
it into consideration, concretely implementing the housing right
and the policies to achieve this right. You must be aware, in any
case, that this Appeal is alive, because the solidarity without
frontiers, founded upon the sharing of principles and proposal
among different subjects, provides a strong impulse for change
and progress. Habitat II has taught us this, even as far as the
future of the cities and of its habitant, are concerned, and we
are no longer willing to turn back. We wait for your kind
demonstration of willingness to reopen the debate that, as of
today, and not due to our willingness, seems irresponsibly
blocked.
Best wishes.
Fecha de referencia: 03-12-2001
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