This brief looks at UN-Habitat’s work on migration is grounded in recent global frameworks, including the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development (2015), the New Urban Agenda (2016) and the Global Compact for Migration, adopted by UN Member States in December 2018. While Sustainable Development Goal (SDG)10, target 10.7 calls on Member States to facilitate orderly, safe and responsible migration and mobility of people, SDG 11 provides targets that aim to increase inclusivity in access to…

Migration, especially forced migration, is one of the defining phenomena of the 21st century. Millions of people across the global have fled armed conflicts, persecutions, natural disasters, and/or economic hardships in recent years. Whether they crossed national borders or stayed within the geographic limits of the country in which they originally resided, their ultimate movement has mostly been towards cities. It is impossible to stop the influx of migrants into urban areas in the foreseeable…

The Mediterranean City-to-City Migration Project (MC2CM) brings together experts and cities to contribute to improved migration governance at city level, including migrants' access to basic services and human rights. Implemented since 2015, the project is working with the cities of Amman, Beirut, Lisbon, Lyon, Madrid, Tangiers, Tunis, Turin and Vienna to increase the knowledge base on urban migration and nurture a peer-to-peer dialogue to support mutual learning on specific urban…

The United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat) in Iraq has published a comprehensive urban analysis on Mosul, Iraq’s second largest city and the focus of an international military campaign to liberate it from occupation by the terrorist group that calls itself “Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).”

Rapid urbanization (together with climate change) is emerging as the most challenging issue of the twenty-first century.

This new book, which is jointly published by UN-HABITAT and the Università IUAV di Venezia, gives an account of different policies, practices and governance models that are addressing the issue of international migration in an urbanizing world.

The hardships that have confronted the people of former Yugoslavia throughout the past decade have been unprecedented in post-World War II Europe.