News and stories Story 11 December 2025 Shaping the urban climate agenda: Key takeaways from COP30 Story 10 December 2025 Human Rights, Our Everyday Essentials News 5 December 2025 Urban Lingo: A UN-Habitat dictionary Story 4 December 2025 In São Paulo, Guarani indigenous twins combine sanitation and ancestral tradition News 2 December 2025 South and Southeast Asia: A call for resilient recovery in the wake of climate disasters + All news and stories Urban Impact Urban Impact Issue 29 Urban Impact Issue 28 Urban Impact Issue 27 Urban Impact Issue 26 UN-Habitat in the News 31 October 2024 Cities Hold the Key to a Sustainable Future. Keep Their Role Central at COP29 3 October 2022 Time to strengthen solutions to the growing urban challenges 26 June 2022 Naomi Hoogervorst on Democratization of Design: "Equal Cities Need Equal Voices" 3 April 2022 Kenya elected Vice-Chair of the UN-Habitat Executive Board 8 March 2022 Urban Thinkers Campus – Transforming cities to be inclusive, equitable, and just through a paradigm shift towards gender equality Press Releases Press releases Apply The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change joins as co-sponsor for the Innovate4Cities climate change conference Tuesday, 21 September 2021 2021 UN-Habitat Scroll of Honour award winners announced Saturday, 18 September 2021 UN-Habitat and Cameroon to host Global Observance of World Habitat Day 2021 in Yaoundé, Cameroon Tuesday, 21 September 2021 2021 UN-Habitat Scroll of Honour award winners announced Saturday, 18 September 2021 UN-Habitat calls for urgent humanitarian support for Afghanistan’s overwhelmed cities Monday, 13 September 2021 From climate ambitions to results: register now for the global Innovate4Cities Climate Change Conference 11- 15 October 2021 Monday, 13 September 2021 UN-Habitat and UNICEF promote uptake of jointly collected data on disadvantaged urban neighbourhoods by municipalities and other stakeholders across Lebanon Thursday, 2 September 2021 UN-Habitat and UNICEF promote uptake of jointly collected data on disadvantaged urban neighbourhoods by municipalities and other stakeholders across Lebanon Thursday, 2 September 2021 Pagination Previous page ‹‹ Page 20 Next page ›› Statements and speeches Statements and speeches Apply Speech at the press conference in Istanbul, Republic of Türkiye, ahead of World Habitat Day 2022 Friday, 30 September 2022 Speech at the opening ceremony of the 13th Asia-Pacific Cities Summit Wednesday, 27 July 2022 Speech at the Commemorative symposium on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of UN-Habitat’s Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific Tuesday, 26 July 2022 Katowice Declared Actions Friday, 1 July 2022 Closing speech of the Executive Director of UN-Habitat at the Eleventh Session of the World Urban Forum Friday, 1 July 2022 Opening speech of the Executive Director of UN-Habitat at the Eleventh Session of the World Urban Forum Monday, 27 June 2022 Speech of UN-Habitat Executive Director Ms. Maimunah Mohd Sharif at Stockholm+50: Leadership dialogue series Thursday, 2 June 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 Tuesday, 17 May 2022 Pagination Previous page ‹‹ Page 9 Next page ›› Get in touch Are you a journalist interested in UN-Habitat? Contact our communications team. Media Centre contact Ekaterina Bezgachina Chief of Communication ekaterina.bezgachina@un.org Connect with us on Social Media for the latest developments in sustainable urbanization OPENING ADDRESS UN SECRETARY GENERAL VIDEO ADDRESS TO THE ASSEMBLY OPENING ADDRESS PRESIDENT OF UN GENERAL ASSEMBLY ADDRESS TO THE ASSEMBLY AI Master of Ceremonies at the Second United Nations Habitat Assembly UN-Habitat on Flickr UN-Habitat on Flickr