NEW DELHI, India -- India's poorest souls crowd the banks of the Yamuna in an early morning mist, dumping waste, washing clothes and bathing in one of India's holiest -- and most polluted -- rivers.

It is named after a massive nearby rubbish dump, but people are queuing up to move into Abuja's Big Bola slum as rents ...

Australian influencer Pete Z has been accused of "poverty tourism" after filming himself "surviving" in an Indian slum, as seen in a viral Instagram video. Is he a slumdog millionaire? An Australian ...

Congress leader Nana Patole criticizes the lack of benefits from Prime Minister Modi's and Home Minister Shah's visits to ...

Long queues in the rain, daily four-hour trips in a public taxi, the constant threat of road accidents, and nearly having to ...

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Please enable JavaScript to read this content. Today, Kenya joins the world in celebrating the World Habitat Day whose theme is; voices from the slums. While Kenya is ...

TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - In 2025, the poverty rate in Solo, Central Java, decreased to 7.69 percent, affecting approximately ...

As part of Sustainable Development Goals, the United Nations have set targets of upgrading slums and reducing poverty in all its dimensions by 2030. Policies towards improving the living conditions of ...

This is an opinion editorial by Rikki, author and co-host of the “Bitcoin Italia,” and “Stupefatti” podcasts. He is one half of the Bitcoin Explorers, along with Laura, who chronicle Bitcoin adoption ...

“Books about poverty tend to be books about the poor,” the sociologist Matthew Desmond writes in “Poverty, by America” (Crown). That’s true whether the motivation is to blame the poor for their ...