India’s population control policies have never been just about numbers, but rather they’ve always reeked of caste, gender and communal biases.

In a move aimed at strengthening community welfare and fighting gender-based violence (GBV), the Shining Hope for Communities (SHOFCO) on Wednesday donated two fully equipped buses to community ...

Wikimedia Commons/Warren K. Leffler, U.S. News & World Report The 1968 Poor People’s Campaign Martin Luther King Jr. planned ...

A report by the Ghana Statistical Service revealed that about 4.82 million Ghanaians, roughly 30.8 per cent of the urban ...

On a hot Wednesday afternoon in Monrovia, while most children were tucked away in classrooms, 10-year-old Kebbeh Johnson and 12-year-old Telema Zayzay sat on a cracked sidewalk in Buzzy Quarter, one ...

Displaced by climate disasters, poverty, or personal tragedy, Dhaka’s streets serve as the only homes for those without shelter ...

Most residents of Nairobi’s slums live in extreme poverty, meaning they exist on just a couple of dollars a day. With such meager earnings, the increasing cost of living in recent years has made life ...

World Bank data shows India getting closer to the elimination of extreme poverty. As India’s development proceeds apace, the challenge now is more economic than humanitarian.

Dubai: From the suffocating poverty of Manila ’s slums to the dazzling lights of Dubai’s World Trade Center, Jenny Raet’s journey is nothing short of a miracle. As a six-year-old, she ...

KATHMANDU: A comprehensive new study reveals how poverty reduction efforts are struggling to improve the livelihoods of vulnerable communities in Kathmandu's slum areas, particularly in Ward No ...

A well-wisher sponsored him to school, snatching him from the unforgiving hands of slum poverty, crime and drug and thankfully, he devoted himself to studies, scaling his way to top echelon of ...

Yet poverty in Lagos slums has often been studied using traditional methods that focus mostly on income thresholds. A person is considered poor if their income falls below a certain level.