News and stories Story 25 April 2025 New blog highlights how multilateralism can accelerate urban climate action News 23 April 2025 Cities worldwide invited to join UN-Habitat’s Quality of Life Initiative News 14 April 2025 81st ESCAP Commission Session News 2 April 2025 Morocco Declaration to set land governance agenda in the Arab region Statement 29 March 2025 Statement by the Executive Director of UN-Habitat: Condolences and solidarity following the earthquake in Myanmar and Thailand + All news and stories Urban Impact Urban Impact Issue 26 Urban Impact Issue 25 Urban Impact Issue 24 Urban Impact Issue 23 UN-Habitat in the News 31 October 2024 Cities Hold the Key to a Sustainable Future. Keep Their Role Central at COP29 3 October 2022 Time to strengthen solutions to the growing urban challenges 26 June 2022 Naomi Hoogervorst on Democratization of Design: "Equal Cities Need Equal Voices" 3 April 2022 Kenya elected Vice-Chair of the UN-Habitat Executive Board 8 March 2022 Urban Thinkers Campus – Transforming cities to be inclusive, equitable, and just through a paradigm shift towards gender equality Press Releases Press releases Apply Cities and Pandemics: Towards a More Just, Green and Healthy Future Press release - French Monday, 29 March 2021 Cities and Pandemics: Towards a More Just, Green and Healthy Future Press release - Arabic Monday, 29 March 2021 Cities and Pandemics: Towards a More Just, Green and Healthy Future Press release - English Monday, 29 March 2021 UN-Habitat and the Federal Republic of Germany establish a United Nations ‘Innovation Technology Accelerator for Cities’ (UNITAC Hamburg) at the HafenCity University in Hamburg Thursday, 18 March 2021 Launch of Her City – a digital platform to support girls’ participation in urban planning Wednesday, 10 March 2021 UN-Habitat re-establishes its country presence in Morocco signaling a strengthened partnership on sustainable urbanization Tuesday, 9 March 2021 Groundbreaking Innovate4Cities Conference to explore climate crisis solutions Thursday, 4 March 2021 Voluntary Local Reviews are changing the way we think of SDG localization and the approach to the National Reviews Tuesday, 2 March 2021 Pagination Previous page ‹‹ Page 19 Next page ›› Statements and speeches Statements and speeches Apply The Secretary-General Video Message on World Habitat Day 5 October 2020 Friday, 2 October 2020 Statement by the Executive Director of UN-Habitat, Maimunah Mohd Sharif On the 75th Anniversary of the United Nations Tuesday, 22 September 2020 Closing remarks by the Executive Director during the resumed session of the Executive Board held on 29 July, 2020 Wednesday, 29 July 2020 Launch of UN Secretary-General Policy Brief on COVID-19 in an Urban World. Monday, 27 July 2020 Monday, 27 July 2020 High Level Political Forum 2020 Bolstering local action to control the pandemic and accelerate the implementation, Thursday 9 July 2020 Thursday, 9 July 2020 High Level Political Forum 2020 Special Event Official Launch of the SDG6 Global Acceleration Framework, Thursday 9 July 2020 Thursday, 9 July 2020 High Level Political Forum 2020 UN-Habitat and WHO Urban Form and COVID-19: Thinking Through Issues of Density, Overcrowding, Public Space, and Health Thursday, 9 July 2020 Thursday, 9 July 2020 High Level Political Forum 2020: UCLG and UN-Habitat Voluntary Local Review Series Launch Wednesday, 08 July 2020 Wednesday, 8 July 2020 Pagination Previous page ‹‹ Page 17 Next page ›› Get in touch Are you a journalist interested in UN-Habitat? Contact our communications team. Media Centre contact Ekaterina Bezgachina Chief of Communication ekaterina.bezgachina@un.org Connect with us on Social Media for the latest developments in sustainable urbanization OPENING ADDRESS UN SECRETARY GENERAL VIDEO ADDRESS TO THE ASSEMBLY OPENING ADDRESS PRESIDENT OF UN GENERAL ASSEMBLY ADDRESS TO THE ASSEMBLY AI Master of Ceremonies at the Second United Nations Habitat Assembly UN-Habitat on Flickr UN-Habitat on Flickr
