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Home » Focus Areas » Promotion of participatory urban planning, management and governance » Statements and Speeches
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| Address to the Group of 77 in Geneva By Anna Kajumulo Tibaijuka Under-Secretary-General and Executive Director & Director-General United Nations Office at Nairobi (UNON) Geneva – 18 January 2007 |
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Geneva
It is a great honour for me to appear before you today, in my capacity as the Executive Director of the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-HABITAT), to address the first meeting, in 2007, of the Group of 77 in Geneva. As some of you might recall I have had the pleasure of appearing before your meetings at the time I served as the UNCTAD Director for the Office of the Least Developed, Land-locked and Island Developing States. I was also serving at the time as the Executive Secretary of the Third UN Conference for the Least Developed Countries. I have always been gratified by the strong support, which the Group of 77 has always extended to the weaker among them. So I am pleased to be back. And I would like to take this opportunity to wish all of you everything of the best for 2007
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| Remarks by Mrs. Anna Tibaijuka, Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations, Executive Director UN-HABITAT, At the first meeting of the Advisory Council of the UN-HABITAT Warsaw Office on 25 February 2007 |
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Warsaw
It gives me great pleasure to address this gathering of Honourable Ministers, distinguished bankers, local authorities and so many other important people playing key roles in shaping a brighter future for this region. I wish to open my remarks with special words of thanks: Firstly, thank you, Honourable Minister Aumiller, for hosting this event and for giving us your valuable time to serve as Chair of this first Advisory Council
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| Statement by Dr. Anna K. Tibaijuka Under-Secretary-General and Executive Director of UN-HABITAT at the first plenary session of the 21st Session of the Governing Council for UN-HABITAT |
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Nairobi
This session of the Governing Council has before it some very important issues and equally important decisions to make. For this reason, we have been working arduously with the Committee of Permanent Representatives and its Bureau to ensure that the programme and the organisation of work allows for a judicial balance between dialogue and decision making.
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| Address by Mrs. Anna Tibaijuka Director-General of the United Nations Office at Nairobi, and Executive Director of UN-HABITAT on the occasion of the 12th Summit of the Comesa Authority of Heads of State and Government |
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Nairobi
It gives me great pleasure to invite you to this meeting in Nairobi. It is a great honour for us that you are gracing the United Nations headquarters in Africa with your presence here. As you know, there are four headquarters of United Nations in the World. After New York, the main headquartes, we have Geneva and Vienna. Nairobi is the only UN headquarter in the developing world. Today we find ourselves gathered here at the home of the United Nations Environment Programme, the agency that works to protect our planet’s natural environment, and UN-HABITAT, the agency of which I am the Execuctive Director which works for the built environment. This meeting could have been held elsewhere in this wonderful city, and so it is with a special word of appreciation to Your Excellency, President Kibaki, that we in the United Nations Office at Nairobi extend to you our thanks.
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| Message By Anna Tibaijuka Executive Director of UN-HABITAT and Director General of UNON On The Occassion Of International Youth Day |
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Nairobi, Kenya
I am particularly pleased by the theme of this year's observance of International Youth Day: "Be Seen, Be Heard”
It is a most appropriate theme. With over 200 million youth living in poverty, 130 million illiterate, 88 million unemployed and 10 million living with HIV/AIDS, the case for a renewed commitment to working with youth for attaining the Millennium Development Goals is vital. Young people must be seen as equal partners in achieving these Goals and in realizing the Global Partnership Initiative. As you are all aware, we are at the halfway mark to the target date of 2015 for attaining these goals, and the time has come for accelerated action.
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| Message from Anna Tibaijuka, UN Under-Secretary General & Executive Director, UN-HABITAT on The International Youth Day |
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Nairobi, Kenya
This International Youth Day, I would like to express my support for the chosen theme of “Climate Change and Youth”. Youth are not just leaders of tomorrow, but also of today. And climate change is one of the greatest challenges humanity has ever faced, requiring us all to work together to overcome the impending crisis. What better time, then, to strengthen our commitment to empowering youth as agents of change, partners in solving our shared global challenges?
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| Statement of the Executive Director of UN-HABITAT, Mrs. Anna Tibaijuka on the occasion of the Baghdad Conference |
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Baghdad, Iraq
Housing is a fundamental human right and it is the duty of all responsible governments to ensure that each and every citizen has access to adequate housing along with all basic infrastructure and services such as access roads, water and sanitation, electricity, other community services. The failure to do so in a timely and cost effective manner results in the proliferation of slums which are the breeding grounds of disease and deprivation, the loss of human dignity and ultimately deep rooted frustrations that find vent in violence both within homes and outside.
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The Asia-Pacific Ministerial Conference on Housing and Urban Development, Friday 15 December 2006
Message from Anna Tibaijuka, UN Under-Secretary General & Executive Director, UN-HABITAT on The International Youth Day