Young people studying in the library in the Kibera slum, the largest slum in the Kenyan capital Nairobi. The community ...

Over half a million families live in 864 slums and irregular settlements in metropolitan Buenos Aires surrounding Argentina’s capital. Of this number 66% have over fifteen years since founded and in ...

Sprawling urban areas in Brazil, Nigeria and Bangladesh are all seeing COVID-19 infections rise rapidly. Yet, our research finds, many residents of slums and squatter settlements are not getting the ...

In a guest blog post, Indian journalist Swaminathan S. Anklesaria Aiyar argues that, contrary to their reputation for squalor and crime, slums provide a critical low-cost way for the rural poor to ...

The slums of Manila, the capital of the Philippines, are among the most densely populated places on the planet: By some estimates, in some neighborhoods, more than 200,000 people live in a single ...

Margarita Garcia has two problems: Too much water — and not enough water. And often at the same time. On a hot summer day in March, she headed home from her cleaning job and found that her street was ...

China and India, the world's most populous countries, have together lifted 125 million people out of slums in the last decade, while a further 112 million escaped poor conditions in the rest of the ...

Starting in Stray chapter four, you can start collecting energy drink cans to use as currency with the local shop owner, Azooz. The merchant has two big collectibles for sale — a B12 Memory and a ...

Observations from youth political literacy efforts in Delhi’s resettlement colonies and bastis reveal a consistent pattern.

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Forget about Utopia or even the dystopian Los Angeles depicted in Blade Runner. The future of the city is a vast Third World slum. This year, the world will pass a milestone so profoundly significant ...

Pakistan is now seeing the beginning of the third wave of Covid-19 with the number of new cases trending upwards. While the government is taking measures to control the spread of virus, the question ...