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UN-Habitat Chief of Knowledge and Innovation interview with El Pais
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Press Releases

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Cities and Pandemics: Towards a More Just, Green and Healthy Future Press release - Spanish Mardi, 30 mars 2021
Cities and Pandemics: Towards a More Just, Green and Healthy Future Press release - French Lundi, 29 mars 2021
Cities and Pandemics: Towards a More Just, Green and Healthy Future Press release - Arabic Lundi, 29 mars 2021
Cities and Pandemics: Towards a More Just, Green and Healthy Future Press release - English Lundi, 29 mars 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 Jeudi, 18 mars 2021
Launch of Her City – a digital platform to support girls’ participation in urban planning Mercredi, 10 mars 2021

Statements and speeches

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Statement by the Executive Director of UN-Habitat, Maimunah Mohd Sharif Partner and Pledge for Sustainable Urbanization Vendredi, 4 décembre 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 Samedi, 31 octobre 2020
UN-Habitat Executive Director, Ms. Maimunah Mohd Sharif World Cities Day 2020 31 October 2020 Samedi, 31 octobre 2020
UN-Habitat Executive Director, Ms. Maimunah Mohd Sharif World Cities Day 2020 Launch of the World Cities Report 2020, 31 October 2020 Samedi, 31 octobre 2020
UN-Habitat Executive Director, Ms. Maimunah Mohd Sharif World Cities Day, New York Local Innovations, SDGs and COVID-19, 30 October 2020 Vendredi, 30 octobre 2020
UN-Habitat Executive Director Maimunah Mohd Sharif Global Observance of World Habitat Day speech Monday 5 October 2020 Lundi, 5 octobre 2020

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