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One of the main purposes of the UN Conference - Exposition on Human Settlements held in Vancouver, Canada, in June 1976, was to bring to the World's attention the nature and relative importance of the problems of human settlements against a background of widespread concern for the whole of our earthly environment - natural and manmade. Two of the most critical problems of society today are the shortage of adequate housing and the deterioration of the conditions under which people live and work. Many cities are unable to provide adequate housing, food, sanitation, work and other essential services for all the people flocking to them in search of a better life. Rural settlements are being abandoned and neglected. Urbanization is not an evil in itself. The process can be guided and converted into a positive factor in development. Economic development and an improvement in the quality of human life need not be competing alternatives. They are both vital and in the common interest of all mankind.

A woman in her kitchen in Cross Roads, South Africa.
Alluvial diamond deposits are an important source of income to Sierra Leone. Methods are being devised to control surreptitious diamond smuggling, for the country loses millions of dollars through these illegal activities.
Diamond workers are seen here panning alluvial deposits into baskets on the banks of a river.
People enjoying a Sunday stroll on a Tokyo street closed to motor traffic. In Japan shopping centres are open on Sundays to enable the people to shop leisurely.  To encourage shoppers to use public transport and enjoy their outing some city streets are converted to temporary picnic areas.
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Headline Mineral Surveys in Ethiopia 
Caption Description The Government of Ethiopia, with the assistance of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and with the United Nations as executing agency, is conducting a programme of selective and detailed mineral exploration in two general areas, Sidamo in the South and Wollega in the west, and is providing practical training to Ethiopian staff in the application of advanced techniques in locating buried mineral deposits.
Mr. George Kent (Canada), UN Exploration Geologist, with Ethiopian Geologist Shiferaw Demissie, examines rock samples for mineral trace in the bed of the Schogul River in Gojjam Province. The area is well known for open pit mining of gold. 
Unique Identifier UN7725663 
NICA ID 128874 
Production Date 02/01/1970 10:27:41 AM 
Country Ethiopia
Credit UN Photo/Yutaka Nagata
File size 8.97 MB