Home sweet home…. the tale of two families in Western Nineveh
July 20th, 2023
Al-Qahira Park: a symbol of hope and renewal in Heet, Iraq
June 13th, 2023
Combatting sand and dust storms in Iraq and Kuwait
February 2nd, 2023
Mosul celebrates the opening of a renovated Al Yarmouk Park
November 7th, 2022
UN-Habitat strives to enhance partnership opportunities for area-based urban recovery projects in Heet
October 18th, 2021
Heet, Iraq, 18 October 2021 – The two-square-kilometre Al-Baker neighbourhood, sprawling on the eastern bank of the Euphrates River, is the largest and most populated of the 14 areas comprising the…
UN-Habitat strengthens support to cities facing influx of internally displaced people
September 29th, 2021
Nairobi, 29 September 2021- On the eve of the report by the United Nations Secretary-General’s High-Level Panel on Internal Displacement, UN-Habitat renews its commitment to furthering the…
Struggling Iraqi mother learns new gardening skills in EU project
April 12th, 2021
Mosul, Iraq. March 2021. After struggling to support her family for the past six years, Nafla Mohammad Ali is now a gardener at Al Yarmouk Park currently being transformed as part of the EU-funded…
UN-Habitat marks World Water Day by water network rehabilitation in five cities across Iraq
March 18th, 2021
Erbil, Iraq, 22 March 2021 – Ismail Faris and his wife Um Medyan smile each time they turn their tap, and a steady stream of clean and cool water rushes out. For many across the globe, this a routine…
Creating jobs for the local community in Duhok, thanks to a programme funded by the EU
December 16th, 2020
Duhok, Iraq, 15 December 2020-- Saud Saad Hussein,19, has been living with his family in a rented house in Baroshke neighbourhood in Duhok Centre of northern Iraq since their displacement from Sinjar…
Park squatter in Mosul, Iraq offered new opportunity thanks to UN-Habitat rehabilitation project
August 17th, 2020
Mosul, Iraq, August 2020 – After squatting in Al-Yarmouk Park in Mosul, northern Iraq, for 22 years, Suliman Hassan Matar has been provided with a temporary new home and a full-time job as a park…
Returnees in Yathrib, Iraq, help rebuild homes in their conflict affected communities during the pandemic
July 2nd, 2020
Yathrib, Iraq, 2 July 2020 - While living away from home in Baghdad for four years, 31-year-old Mohammed Madi Ahmad learned new skills in painting, plumbing, electrical work and installation of fans…
Young returnees in Iraq benefit from vocational training
May 28th, 2020
Mosul, Iraq, 28 May 2020 -- UN-Habitat in partnership with Peace Winds Japan recently completed vocational training of 33 young community members in Zanjilli neighborhood of West Mosul. This was part…
UN-Habitat joins forces with leading experts to propose urban solutions for internally displaced people
May 17th, 2020
15 May 2020; UN-Habitat has called for a “proactive urban response to displacement” in a joint paper on the growing phenomenon of urban displacement for the UN’s High Level Panel on Internal…
UN-Habitat Iraq housing rehabilitation project provides employment and protection for workers during COVID-19
May 15th, 2020
Nineveh Governorate, Iraq, 19 May 2020 – Construction work has resumed work on a UN-Habitat project with UNDP to rehabilitate war damaged houses in two cities in northern Iraq with precautions to…
Developing five City Profiles for conflict-affected cities in Iraq, Libya, Yemen and Syria
December 5th, 2019
Cairo, 5 December 2019 – Since 2018 UN-Habitat has been working to develop five City Profiles for conflict-affected cities in Iraq, Lebanon, Libya, Syria and Yemen. Urban profiling guides…