Burning plastic as fuel for cooking and heating releases toxic chemicals into the air and contaminates food. Yet this is ...

Slum tourism, a controversial practice where tourists visit impoverished urban areas, has gained attention for its complex relationship with urban poverty. This phenomenon raises questions about ...

Poor people in vast city slums across the Global South are burning plastic to cook their food, warm their homes and boil water for hot ...

Pinki Haryan's childhood was miserable and difficult but she was determined to transform her life. With unwavering resolve, ...

The HOF Gallery sticks out like sin in a citadel. Amidst the rubble around and the iron shanties flanking it, she stands tall ...

Crime feeds on the slums. This is where bosses recruit new thugs, this is where they sell drugs and profit, this is where they live, rule and hide. If we don't solve the problem of extreme poverty in ...

She lives in a slum in the shadow of Quest ... the World Bank's median poverty line. And 21%, or more than 250 million people, survive on less than $2 a day. Like other middle-class Indians ...

Livelihood bets on a backdrop of poverty, anarchy, prostitution, lack of basic amenities among a myriad of social complexities. A walk within the slum actually reveals the complex nature of life ...

A rural community's experience indicates that an essential element in a war on poverty is inducing Slum dwellers to develop patterns of social functioning, including group action and local leadership ...