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…
For the first time, Yazidi families have documents to prove their rights over land and houses in Sinjar, Northern Iraq
July 19th, 2019
Sinjar, Northern Iraq. “When we first heard there would be a programme to support our property rights, we did not believe it. But then it happened!” Hazem Kcho Saado, Borek resident, 47 years old. As…