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Arabic - Local authorities in Heet, Iraq celebrate the handover of UN-Habitat projects funded by the European Union and Alwaleed Philanthropies	Thursday, 10 June 2021
Local authorities in Heet, Iraq celebrate the handover of UN-Habitat projects funded by the European Union and Alwaleed Philanthropies	Thursday, 10 June 2021
Turkey’s First Lady honoured as a Champion of UN-Habitat’s Waste Wise Cities programme	Wednesday, 2 June 2021
Celebrating UN Decade of Ecosystem Restoration-World Environment Day 2021 World Environment Day 2021	Friday, 28 May 2021
Next year’s World Urban Forum in Katowice, Poland, to focus on the future of cities	Friday, 14 May 2021
Japanese - Next year’s World Urban Forum in Katowice, Poland, to focus on the future of cities	Monday, 17 May 2021
Next year’s World Urban Forum in Katowice, Poland, to focus on the future of cities	Friday, 14 May 2021
Nominations for the 2021 UN-Habitat Scroll of Honour Awards now open	Wednesday, 28 April 2021

Statement by Mr Walter Cotte on behalf of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies	Monday, 9 May 2022
Statement of Maimunah Mohd Sharif, Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations and Executive Director of UN-Habitat at the High-level Meeting of the General Assembly on the Implementation of the New Urban Agenda in New York on 28 April 2022	Friday, 29 April 2022
Message from the UN-Habitat Executive Director Maimunah Mohd Sharif Serbia National Urban Forum 11 April 2022	Monday, 11 April 2022
Pre-meeting on the Implementation of the New Urban Agenda	Tuesday, 29 March 2022
Message from UN-Habitat Executive Director Maimunah Mohd Sharif Convention on the Status of Women (CSW66) Side Event 15 March 2022	Tuesday, 15 March 2022
Message from UN-Habitat Executive Director Maimunah Mohd Sharif on the Opening Session Urban Thinkers Campus North American Women & SDGs 7 March 2022	Monday, 7 March 2022
Message from UN-Habitat Executive Director Maimunah Mohd Sharif during the 49th Regular Session of the Human Rights Council 28th Feb – 2nd Mar 2022.	Wednesday, 2 March 2022
Keynote Speech of the UN-Habitat Executive Director at Jakarta Development Collaboration Network	Thursday, 16 December 2021

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