Digital rights in the COVID-19 era
July 28th, 2020
Around the world, cities have stepped up in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, forcing changes to our daily lives. Developing better resilience against future threats, including pandemics, has become…
UN Secretary-General’s latest Policy Brief calls for urgent response and recovery action in cities
July 28th, 2020
New York, July 28 – Around 90 percent of all COVID-19 cases are found in urban areas according to the latest Policy Brief by the UN Secretary-General. The Policy Brief COVID-19 in an Urban World,…
UN-Habitat calls for cities to use pandemic as an opportunity to improve cycling and walking infrastucture
July 28th, 2020
24 July 2020 – The COVID-19 crisis has led to the number of deaths in road accidents in Ethiopia being cut by over half according to the country’s Transport Minister. Speaking during a webinar on An…
Place Value - Matthew Carmona
July 28th, 2020
Arab cities share experiences on disaster preparedness and emergency response during COVID-19
July 28th, 2020
Cairo, 27 July 2020 – A best practices webinar for Arab cities to discuss the lessons learned in responding to COVID-19 at the city level and exchange effective emergency preparedness and response…
First communal handwashing stations in Lebanon aim to tackle COVID-19 spread
July 28th, 2020
Beirut, 28 July 2020 – UN-Habitat Lebanon has designed, produced and installed the first communal handwashing stations in Lebanon to prevent the spread of COVID-19 and other similar health risks. The…
UN-Habitat’s Regional Goodwill Ambassador for the Arab States calls for communities to come together to address urban inequalities
July 27th, 2020
Riyadh, 28 July 2020 - UN-Habitat’s first Regional Goodwill Ambassador for the Arab States has called for the international community to turn the COVID-19 crisis into a trigger to address…
A new interactive project map sources the best solutions to COVID-19 in the slums
July 27th, 2020
25 July 2020 - UN-Habitat’s Participatory Slum Upgrading Programme (PSUP) along with partner countries and, in cooperation with a research group of the Master Techs4Change at Politecnico di Torino, (…
Permanent handwashing facilities for Kenya’s Nakuru Municipality include taps for drinking water
July 21st, 2020
Nakuru, Kenya, July 2020 – One of Kenya’s largest urban areas, Nakuru, has installed eight permanent handwashing stations with clean drinking water with funding from UN-Habitat to stop the spread of…
Gated Community Development in Our Cities - Sonia Roitman
July 20th, 2020
UN-Habitat and UNOSSC commit to stepping up South-South cooperation on urban issues
July 20th, 2020
18 July 2020 – UN-Habitat and the United Nations Office for South-South Cooperation (UNOSSC) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) providing a framework for cooperation to facilitate and…
Yemeni residents paid to repair their homes destroyed by fighting under UN-Habitat project
July 20th, 2020
Qataba, Al-Hudaydah Governorate Yemen, July 2020 – When fighting broke out in Yemen’s West Coast Districts at the end of 2017, most of the people living in Qataba town fled and their houses were…
Cities twinning to share waste management experience officially sign up online
July 20th, 2020
20 July 2020 – UN-Habitat’s Executive Director virtually opened the Signing Ceremony of the Waste Wise Cities Challenge, which brings together cities looking to improve management of their municipal…
Workshop discusses State of Yemen Cities Report
July 17th, 2020
Aden 18 July 2020 -- UN-Habitat together with local partner, Science and Technology Center (STC) -University of Aden, held a workshop in Aden to discuss the State of Yemen Cities Report covering.…
UN-Habitat, Canada and partners launch One Stop Youth Centre in northern Kenya to prevent COVID-19 spread
July 16th, 2020
Mandera, Kenya, July 2020 - Partners from local and national government, civil society and the private sector came together to launch the One Stop Youth Resource Centre, which will be the base for…