{"id":30263,"date":"2025-02-21T09:42:25","date_gmt":"2025-02-21T04:12:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=30263"},"modified":"2025-04-10T09:18:16","modified_gmt":"2025-04-10T03:48:16","slug":"un-habitat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/un-habitat\/","title":{"rendered":"UN-Habitat"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>UN-Habitat Latest News<\/h2>\n<p>Recently, C40 Cities and UN-Habitat have announced a landmark partnership to transform urban planning.<\/p>\n<h2>About UN-Habitat<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is the <strong>focal point for all urbanization<\/strong> and human settlement matters <strong>within the UN system.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It is mandated by the UN General Assembly to promote <strong>socially and environmentally sustainable towns <\/strong>and cities with the goal of providing adequate shelter for all.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>It works with partners to build inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable cities and communities.<\/li>\n<li>UN-Habitat promotes urbanization as a positive transformative force for people and communities, reducing inequality, discrimination and poverty.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Headquarters:<\/strong> Nairobi<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Governance Structure of UN-Habitat<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a <strong>three-tier structure<\/strong> made up of the UN-Habitat Assembly, the Executive Board and the Committee of Permanent Representatives.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li><strong>UN-Habitat Assembly<\/strong> is a universal body composed of the <strong>193 member<\/strong> states of the United Nations and convenes <strong>every four years.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>The Executive Board<\/strong> is composed of <strong>36 member<\/strong> states elected by the UN-Habitat Assembly and <strong>meets three times a year<\/strong> to increase the oversight by Member States of UN-Habitat operations.<\/li>\n<li>The <strong>Committee of Permanent Representatives of UN-Habitat<\/strong> (CPR) meets twice every four years in an open-ended manner.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>UN-Habitat FAQs<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Q1:<\/strong> Where is the headquarters of UN-Habitat?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans: <\/strong>Nairobi, Kenya<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q2: <\/strong>When was UN-Habitat established?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans: <\/strong>On 1 January 1975,<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q3:<\/strong> When was the first World Habitat Day?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans: <\/strong>World Habitat Day was first celebrated in 1986 with the theme &#8220;Shelter is My Right&#8221;. Nairobi was the host city for the observance that year.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.c40.org\/news\/un-habitat-c40-cities-new-partnership\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> c40<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>N-Habitat is the focal point for all urbanization and human settlement matters within the UN system<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":30264,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-30263","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30263\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}