Urban Impact
      
        
  
        
      
        Urban Impact
      
        
      
          
        UN-Habitat in the News
      
        
  
        
      
        UN-Habitat in the News
      
        Press Releases
    
        
Press releases
      
      | Presidents and Prime Ministers discuss innovation at first UN-Habitat Assembly | Wednesday, 29 May 2019 | 
| UN-Habitat Press Release on WHD WCD WUF hosts, 28 May 2019 | Wednesday, 29 May 2019 | 
| First UN-Habitat Assembly opens in Nairobi and elects President, 27 May 2019 | Wednesday, 29 May 2019 | 
| Statement of the Executive Director of the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat), Ms. Maimunah Mohd Sharif, on the crash of Ethiopian Airlines flight ET 302 | Monday, 11 March 2019 | 
| UN-Habitat Continues Rehabilitation of Severely Damaged Houses in West Mosul Under Its Community-Based Urban Recovery Programme | Friday, 21 December 2018 | 
| Launch of a land readjustment project aiming at stopping informal expansion in urban extension areas. | Friday, 21 December 2018 | 
| UN-Habitat Executive Director: World Cities Day Message | Tuesday, 30 October 2018 | 
| UN-Habitat Executive Director: World Cities Day Message | Tuesday, 30 October 2018 | 
Statements and speeches
    
        
Statements and speeches
      
      | Speech by the Executive Director of UN-Habitat on World Cities Day 2025 | Friday, 31 October 2025 | 
| Speech by the Executive Director of UN-Habitat on World Habitat Day 2025 | Monday, 6 October 2025 | 
| Statement by the Executive Director of UN-Habitat: Condolences and Solidarity Following the Earthquake in Myanmar and Thailand | Saturday, 29 March 2025 | 
| Closing remarks by Anacláudia Rossbach, United Nations Under-Secretary-General and Executive Director, UN-Habitat, at the twelfth session of the World Urban Forum (WUF12) | Sunday, 10 November 2024 | 
| UN-Habitat Executive Director Opening Speech WUF12 | Tuesday, 5 November 2024 | 
| UN-Habitat Egypt President Speech WUF12 | Tuesday, 5 November 2024 | 
| Statement by the Inter-Agency Standing Committee on Protection from Sexual Exploitation and Abuse and Sexual Harassment | Thursday, 8 August 2024 | 
| UN-Habitat's statement at the Preparatory Committee for the Fourth International Conference on Financing for Development | Tuesday, 23 July 2024 |