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

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 ...

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 ...

Research in Chile could help to provide drinking water for some of the world's most arid places.

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

Here's the remarkable life journey of Pinki Haryan, who once begged on the streets of Mcleodganj and scavenged for food from garbage bins, but overcame seemingly insurmountable odds to become a doctor ...

Prayagraj: As many as 20 young girls living in the slums of Varanasi were given scholarships for their further education at the Shakti Dham camp in Se.

IN the dark corners of just about every developing country, you will find a slum or two. These are residential areas with little or no regular water supply; little or no electricity; no wide access ...

"It is tempting to see this moment as a crisis—perhaps even an unraveling. But history tells a different story." ...

Nearby a Médecins Sans Frontières triage center is the only reminder that this slum area is the epicenter ... areas where people live in extreme poverty. Kinshasa, often called "Kin la Belle ...

If you want to understand the nature and extent of the damage that international aid has on the economies of underdeveloped ...

Anuja, the film, shows that the mere appearance of a life-changing opportunity is not enough to change one’s life trajectory. Anuja, a fourteen-year-old girl from a slum, seems well-aware that ...