Rossbach's housing appeal Guterres message and address

Oct 5

The presenter introduces Anacláudia Rossbach to read Secretary-General António Guterres's World Habitat Day message and then deliver her own address. In the interpreted message, housing is presented as essential to dignity and safety; coordinated government action, partnerships, financing and investment in inclusive, climate-resilient homes are urged for people deprived of adequate shelter. Rossbach's subsequent address thanks Oman for hosting the observance, describes adequacy as affordability, services, accessibility, habitability and cultural suitability, and explains how costs, insecure homes, conflicts and disasters affect families. She calls for transport-connected housing and work with residents to improve informal settlements, basic services and economic opportunities, and urges participants to turn recognition of the housing right into practical plans. The broadcast interpretation's inconsistent numerical and UN-review formulations remain attributed and uncertain rather than corrected from external texts.

At the 5 October 2026 World Habitat Day opening in Muscat, Anacláudia Rossbach reads Secretary-General António Guterres's message on housing, heard in the broadcast with Arabic interpretation. It presents adequate housing as essential to dignity and safety and calls for coordinated public action, partnerships, financing and investment in inclusive, climate-resilient homes. This occurrence is the message's public delivery at the observance; the broadcast does not establish when it was written or place Guterres personally at the ceremony.