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

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

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.

SOME people are upset by slums. They feel sick themselves when they find four or five children sharing a bed in a windowless room and realize that the tubercular cough of one youngster means the ...

Chandigarh declared itself the country's first slum-free city after demolishing Shahpur Colony, displacing hundreds of families from government land. While officials claimed successful rehabilitation, ...

The ability of Allentown's administration to deal with blighted homes and slum landlords –as well as the limitations it faces -- will be discussed at a special public meeting that will be scheduled by ...

IN HIS study of education in American high schools, entitled The American High School Today, Dr. James B. Conant encountered the wrath of the teaching profession, largely because he proved that our ...

Father Carlos “Charly” Olivero of the Parish of Our Lady of the Miracles of Caacupe. (Credit: Facebook.) Listen [Editor’s note: This is the third part of a series on the villero priests, a group of ...