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Kenya elected Vice-Chair of the UN-Habitat Executive Board
Urban Thinkers Campus – Transforming cities to be inclusive, equitable, and just through a paradigm shift towards gender equality
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Press Releases

Press releases

Final World Cities Report Press Release_Arabic الاثنين, 2 نوفمبر 2020
Cities will be critical for the global COVID-19 recovery and building back better according to UN-Habitat flagship report - Russian الجمعة, 30 أكتوبر 2020
Global observance of World Cities Day 2020 on 31 October being hosted by Kenya الخميس, 22 أكتوبر 2020
Official signing ceremony of a Memorandum of Understanding between UN-Habitat and the African Renaissance and Diaspora Network الثلاثاء, 20 أكتوبر 2020
UN-Habitat and Indonesia Host the First Ever Virtual World Habitat Day 2020 from Surabaya السبت, 3 أكتوبر 2020
UN-Habitat and Indonesia Host the First Ever Virtual World Habitat Day 2020 from Surabaya السبت, 3 أكتوبر 2020
40 Days Safer Cities Challenge السبت, 19 سبتمبر 2020
2020 UN-Habitat Scroll of Honour Award Winners Announced الاثنين, 14 سبتمبر 2020

Statements and speeches

Statements and speeches

Opening speech of the Executive Director of UN-Habitat at the Eleventh Session of the World Urban Forum الاثنين, 27 يونيو 2022
Speech of UN-Habitat Executive Director Ms. Maimunah Mohd Sharif at Stockholm+50: Leadership dialogue series الخميس, 2 يونيو 2022
Speech of the UN-Habitat Executive Director at opening the 9th Africities Summit on the rile of intermediary cities of Africa in the implementation of the Agenda 2030 of the United Nations and the African Union Agenda 2063 الثلاثاء, 17 مايو 2022
Statement by Mr Walter Cotte on behalf of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies الاثنين, 9 مايو 2022
Statement of Maimunah Mohd Sharif, Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations and Executive Director of UN-Habitat at the High-level Meeting of the General Assembly on the Implementation of the New Urban Agenda in New York on 28 April 2022 الجمعة, 29 أبريل 2022
Message from the UN-Habitat Executive Director Maimunah Mohd Sharif Serbia National Urban Forum 11 April 2022 الاثنين, 11 أبريل 2022
Pre-meeting on the Implementation of the New Urban Agenda الثلاثاء, 29 مارس 2022
Message from UN-Habitat Executive Director Maimunah Mohd Sharif Convention on the Status of Women (CSW66) Side Event 15 March 2022 الثلاثاء, 15 مارس 2022

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