H.E. Sheikh Hussam Bin Essa Al-khalifa (third from the right) with the UN-HABITAT team in Bahrain.
A Rio de Janeiro-based foundation that promotes land, housing and human rights has been selected as the winner of the 2010 Shaikh Khalifa Bin Salman Al Khalifa UN-HABITAT Award. The award which carries a cash prize of USD 100,000 will be presented to the Land and Housing Programme of the Bento RubiĆ£o Foundation at the fifth session of the World Urban Forum in Rio next March. The announcement was made as a UN-HABITAT team visited the Kingdom this week for talks with senior government officials. For details, click here.