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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

First UN-Habitat Assembly opens in Nairobi and elects President, 27 May 2019 星期三, 29 五月 2019
Statement of the Executive Director of the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat), Ms. Maimunah Mohd Sharif, on the crash of Ethiopian Airlines flight ET 302 星期一, 11 三月 2019
UN-Habitat Continues Rehabilitation of Severely Damaged Houses in West Mosul Under Its Community-Based Urban Recovery Programme 星期五, 21 十二月 2018
Launch of a land readjustment project aiming at stopping informal expansion in urban extension areas. 星期五, 21 十二月 2018
UN-Habitat Executive Director: World Cities Day Message 星期二, 30 十月 2018
UN-Habitat Executive Director: World Cities Day Message 星期二, 30 十月 2018
Liverpool Hosts Key International Forum on Protecting Urban Residents from Disasters for 2018 World Cities Day 星期四, 25 十月 2018
Press Release: Abu Dhabi Signs Agreement with UN-Habitat to Host 10th World Urban Forum in 2020 星期三, 17 十月 2018

Statements and speeches

Statements and speeches

SG_s_Foreword_Russian 星期二, 3 十一月 2020
sg_s_foreword_french 星期二, 3 十一月 2020
UN-Habitat Executive Director, Ms. Maimunah Mohd Sharif World Cities Day Roundtable 1: Towards Africities Achieving The SDGs Through Resilient Intermediate Cities In Africa, 31 October 2020 星期六, 31 十月 2020
UN-Habitat Executive Director, Ms. Maimunah Mohd Sharif World Cities Day 2020 31 October 2020 星期六, 31 十月 2020
UN-Habitat Executive Director, Ms. Maimunah Mohd Sharif World Cities Day 2020 Launch of the World Cities Report 2020, 31 October 2020 星期六, 31 十月 2020
Cities will be critical for the global COVID-19 recovery and building back better according to UN-Habitat flagship report - Spanish 星期五, 30 十月 2020
Cities will be critical for the global COVID-19 recovery and building back better according to UN-Habitat flagship report - English 星期五, 30 十月 2020
UN-Habitat Executive Director, Ms. Maimunah Mohd Sharif World Cities Day, New York Local Innovations, SDGs and COVID-19, 30 October 2020 星期五, 30 十月 2020

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