The theme of this year’s World Habitat Day is A safe city is a just city.

The Global Observance of this year’s World Habitat Day will take place in The Hague in The Netherlands on 1 October 2007. Major celebrations will also take place in Monterrey in Mexico.

You can also help to raise awareness of shelter and urbanisation issues by organizing a World Habitat Day celebration. Here are the celebrations that took place around the world, World Habitat Day celebrations in 2006