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Press Releases

Press releases

World Urban Forum set to serve as global checkpoint for the New Urban Agenda 星期二, 25 十一月 2025
Ministers and mayors unite at COP30 to advance climate action through urbanization 星期四, 13 十一月 2025
Media advisory: Key outcomes of the Ministerial Meeting on Urbanization and Climate Change at COP30 星期二, 11 十一月 2025
C40 and UN-Habitat launch the Urban Planning Accelerator for Climate Responsive Cities 星期二, 4 十一月 2025
World Cities Day 2025 urges to put people first in smart urbanization 星期五, 31 十月 2025
UN-Habitat launches USD 9.9 million climate resilience project in Yemen 星期三, 29 十月 2025
Media advisory: World Cities Day 2025 global celebrations in Bogotá 星期三, 22 十月 2025
World Habitat Day 2025: Urban crisis response 星期一, 6 十月 2025

Statements and speeches

Statements and speeches

Speech at the press conference in Istanbul, Republic of Türkiye, ahead of World Habitat Day 2022 星期五, 30 九月 2022
Speech at the opening ceremony of the 13th Asia-Pacific Cities Summit 星期三, 27 七月 2022
Speech at the Commemorative symposium on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of UN-Habitat’s Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific 星期二, 26 七月 2022
Katowice Declared Actions 星期五, 1 七月 2022
Closing speech of the Executive Director of UN-Habitat at the Eleventh Session of the World Urban Forum 星期五, 1 七月 2022
Opening speech of the Executive Director of UN-Habitat at the Eleventh Session of the World Urban Forum 星期一, 27 六月 2022
Speech of UN-Habitat Executive Director Ms. Maimunah Mohd Sharif at Stockholm+50: Leadership dialogue series 星期四, 2 六月 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 星期二, 17 五月 2022

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