Residents of several fire-hit slums in Kolkata, from Topsia’s Majdoorpara to the makeshift settlements under New Alipore’s Durgapur bridge, are gripped by mounting anxiety as identity documents lost ...

Discover how Suresh Ambat transformed Bengaluru's slum education, empowering over 1,300 children through community-run preschools.

Either side of the broken dirt road are shacks of corrugated iron. Meat cooks on a barbecue, a young woman carries a water ...

However, this is precisely what Nirmala Sharma achieved in Delhi, starting around 1991 at the age of 44 and continuing for about 25 years till her tragic death in the middle of several struggles.

It is named after a massive nearby rubbish dump, but people are queuing up to move into Abuja's Big Bola slum as rents skyrocket in more salubrious parts of the Nigerian capital.

Millions in India’s poorest state began voting Thursday in a contest seen as a barometer of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s support after his tumultuous year in office. Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party, ...

WSJ explains how the Trump administration is able to provide $20 billion to Argentina and why it is propping up an ideological ally. Photo: Ksenia Shaikhutdinova/WSJ BUENOS AIRES—For decades, the poor ...

Indians like to call elections a “dance of democracy”. But in Bihar, India’s poorest state, the build-up to state-assembly polls on November 6th and 11th has felt more like a brawl than a ballet. More ...

Work, shopping, church and the pub kept different classes apart far more than 'residential segregation' in 1850s Manchester, undermining key assumptions about the Industrial Revolution. Historians ...

Smokestacks of the London Brick Company release their dose of pollution near Bedfordshire, United Kingdom, in 1942, as two women transport bricks to support the war effort. The prevailing direction in ...

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

Sustainable Development Goal 6 has a target to achieve access to adequate and equitable sanitation and hygiene for all by 2030 An international study on container-based sanitation (CBS) systems has ...