UN-Habitat has opened nominations for the 2026 Scroll of Honour Award, inviting individuals and institutions championing adequate housing and sustainable urban development to apply ahead of the June ...

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 ...

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 ...

As Afghanistan faces mounting housing pressures, the UN-Habitat said shelter challenges will be a key focus at the upcoming ...

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 ...

KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia’s election as president of the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat) Assembly for the 2025-2027 term is a recognition of the country’s achievements and will ...

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 ...

Anacláudia Rossbach assumed the post of Executive Director of UN-Habitat, which is based in Nairobi, Kenya, on 12 August. She is an economist with more than two decades of experience working on issues ...