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Press Releases

Press releases

UN-Habitat inaugurates its Canada office in Montreal to support adequate, climate-smart housing solutions 星期四, 18 九月 2025
Japan contributes USD 5.5 million for upgrading informal settlements in Syria 星期二, 12 八月 2025
Bogotá to host global observance of World Cities Day 2025 星期二, 22 七月 2025
Media advisory: High-level dialogue on housing 星期一, 21 七月 2025
Sevilla Platform for Action launched to boost local finance for sustainable development 星期一, 7 七月 2025
The African Development Bank and UN-Habitat scale up drive for sustainable urbanization in Africa 星期三, 2 七月 2025
UN-Habitat sounds the alarm on the global housing crisis in its 2024 Annual Report 星期一, 2 六月 2025
United Nations Habitat Assembly closes with a new plan to tackle the global housing crisis 星期五, 30 五月 2025

Statements and speeches

Statements and speeches

Statement by Principals of the Inter-Agency Standing Committee on the situation in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory 星期二, 7 十一月 2023
Statement by the UN-Habitat Executive Director on the situation in Gaza 星期四, 2 十一月 2023
Executive Director of UN-Habitat briefing to Member States on the Implementation of the Second Session of the United Nations Habitat Assembly 星期三, 6 九月 2023
Statement of Poland on behalf of the Group of Friends of UN-Habitat at HLPF on SDG11 in New York 星期四, 13 七月 2023
Statement of the Executive Director of UN-Habitat, HLPF Plenary session on SDG11 星期四, 13 七月 2023
Communication from the Permanent Mission of the Russian federation to Nairobi dated June 2023 星期四, 6 七月 2023
Communication from the Embassy of Ukraine in the Republic of Kenya for the period of 9 June 2023 to 28 June 2023 星期二, 4 七月 2023
Executive Director of UN-Habitat speech at the World Refugee Day celebrations at Kakuma-Kalobeyei in Kenya 星期一, 19 六月 2023

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