{"id":3436,"date":"2025-12-16T07:45:15","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T07:45:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2025\/12\/16\/un-habitat-afghan-children-urban-future\/"},"modified":"2025-12-16T07:45:15","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T07:45:15","slug":"un-habitat-afghan-children-urban-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2025\/12\/16\/un-habitat-afghan-children-urban-future\/","title":{"rendered":"UN-Habitat: Afghan Children Envision a Brighter Urban Future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat) office in Afghanistan reports that Afghan children and adolescents already have a clear understanding of their ideal urban future, expressing their visions through art and creativity.<\/p>\n<p>According to UN-Habitat, one young artist said that their artwork reflects the future they hope to see in their city and country\u2014a future filled with laughter, equal opportunities, and a peaceful environment where all residents can thrive.<\/p>\n<p>The UN agency emphasizes that children and young people not only have a clear image of a better city but that their perspectives can serve as a guide for urban planning\u2014especially in a country where a significant portion of the population is made up of youth.<\/p>\n<p>UN-Habitat calls on responsible institutions and the international community to help turn these visions into reality across Afghanistan\u2019s urban areas, moving beyond aspiration to tangible transformation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UN-Habitat says Afghan children are envisioning peaceful, equal urban futures through art. The agency calls for global support to make it reality.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3435,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-important-news","category-social-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3436\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}