Urban Impact
Urban Impact
UN-Habitat in the News
UN-Habitat in the News
Press Releases
Press releases
| Media advisory: World Cities Day 2025 global celebrations in Bogotá | Wednesday, 22 October 2025 |
| World Habitat Day 2025: Urban crisis response | Monday, 6 October 2025 |
| UN-Habitat announces 2025 Scroll of Honour Award winners | Tuesday, 30 September 2025 |
| UNGA80: Member States launch call to action to prioritize adequate housing | Friday, 26 September 2025 |
| Registration opens for the UN’s largest urban conference – WUF13 in Baku | Wednesday, 24 September 2025 |
| UN-Habitat and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia partner for recovery in Syria and Sudan | Sunday, 21 September 2025 |
| UN-Habitat calls for urgent action on textile waste as cities join World Cleanup Day 2025 | Friday, 19 September 2025 |
| UN-Habitat inaugurates its Canada office in Montreal to support adequate, climate-smart housing solutions | Thursday, 18 September 2025 |
Statements and speeches
Statements and speeches
| Speech at the Ministerial Roundtable at COP27 in Sharm-el-Sheik, Egypt | Thursday, 17 November 2022 |
| Head of UN-Habitat calls for greater local participation to achieve the SDGs | Monday, 31 October 2022 |
| Speech at the closing ceremony of the World Habitat Day 2022 in Balikesir, Republic of Türkiye | Thursday, 6 October 2022 |
| Speech at the High-level opening ceremony of the World Habitat Day 2022 in Balikesir, Republic of Türkiye | Tuesday, 4 October 2022 |
| 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 |
