25. Recognizes that the lack of adequate housing remains a pressing challenge in the fight to eradicate extreme poverty, particularly in the urban areas in developing countries, expresses its concern at the rapid growth in the number of slum dwellers in the urban areas of developing countries, particularly in Africa, stresses that, unless urgent and effective measures and actions are taken at the national and international levels, the number of slum dwellers, who constitute one third of the world's urban population, will continue to increase, and emphasizes the need for increased efforts, with a view to significantly improving the lives of at least 100 million slum dwellers by 2020;
25. 认识到缺乏足够的住房，特别是在发展中国家的城市地区，仍然是消除赤贫斗争中的一项紧迫挑战，对尤其是非洲发展中国家城市地区贫民窟居住者人数的迅速增加表示关切，着重指出除非在国家和国际各级采取紧急有效的措施和行动，现占世界城市人口三分之一的贫民窟居住者人数将继续增加，并强调需要加倍努力，以期到2020年大大改善至少一亿贫民窟居住者的生活；