Each summer, the thousand or so families living in a floodplain informal settlement on the edge of Kathmandu brace themselves ...

A new website that records the lives and evictions of slum dwellers in the Indian city of Delhi will help address the chronic ...

Millions of people in Lagos live in slums. Slums typically have poor housing infrastructure and sanitation, and limited access to education, health facilities and clean drinking water. These ...

A recent report shed light on the social ills that face women living in slums. The magnitude of the poor living standards that characterise informal settlements and slums in Nairobi is overwhelming.

Chandigarh: The Chandigarh administration is set to wipe out all traces of slums from the city with the last major one remaining, Shahpur Colony in Sector 38, to be demolished on Tuesday. The deputy ...

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — They huddle in a tight circle, shaking seed-filled maracas and shuffling in time to a rhythm that has pulsed through their tribes for generations. The dancers raise their voices ...

"In the slum, you had to learn to be blind, deaf and mute about what some of the things that went on here or you'd find yourself in real trouble." Still, despite the difficulties, life in the slums ...