Maimunah Mohd Sharif speaks at the opening ceremony for World Urban Forum 10 in Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates. (Photo courtesy UN-Habitat/Azeem Baig) This is your first of three ...

Long before Vancouver became a hotbed of property speculation, Habitat 76 drew more than 2,000 delegates from 140 countries ...

In 1976, about 10,000 people from more than 130 countries came to Vancouver to propose solutions for a rapidly urbanizing ...

The New Urban Agenda was officially adopted in Quito, Ecuador in the last plenary of the Habitat III conference. The agenda provides a 20-year “roadmap” to guide sustainable urban development globally ...

Global stage: Nga at the UN-Habitat assembly. PETALING JAYA: Malaysia has marked a historic moment with the assumption of the United Nations Human Settle­ments Pro­gramme (UN-Habitat) general assembly ...

UN-Habitat has officially opened the call for nominations for the 2026 Scroll of Honour Award – one of the world’s most prestigious awards recognizing outstanding contributions to adequate housing and ...

A total of 93,000 votes were cast to elect the sixteen new members of the UN-Habitat Youth Advisory Board. Twelve youth, 6 men and 6 women, representing six regions of the world, will take up their ...

The Un-habitat or the United Nations agency for human settlements and sustainable urban development, whose primary focus is to deal with the challenges of rapid urbanization, has been developing ...

UN-Habitat has just released its annual World Cities Report during the eleventh session of the World Urban Forum, which took place in Katowice, Poland from June 27 until June 30, 2022. Titled ...

LIMA, PERU, October 10, 2015 – On the occasion of the “What Makes a Sustainable City?” event held today during the World Bank-IMF Annual Meetings in Lima, Peru, the World Bank Group and UN-Habitat ...