MUMBAI (Reuters) - In Nehru Nagar, the teeming Mumbai slum featured in the Golden Globe-winning film "Slumdog Millionaire," the only music heard is on tiny radio sets and the young boys have no ...

Divya Khosla Kumar recently talked about her tough experience living in a slum for 20 days while getting ready for a movie role. She recalled how she did daily chores and adjusted to the hard living ...

The slums in the Global South hold the key to building circular cities in other developing countries, according to Charles Darwin University (CDU) researchers. Slums, a term used to describe informal ...

If you live in poverty, you’re not in a strong position to negotiate when selling your labor, your body, or your life story. So it is for the children of the slums of Mumbai who have helped solidify ...

The neighborhood of Cota 905 in Caracas shares a name with the gang that runs it with impunity AFP / Yuri CORTEZ A Venezuelan soldier takes cover behind an armored vehicle. For 48 hours he has ducked ...

An international study on container-based sanitation (CBS) systems has found that this portable toilet option significantly improves the quality of life for people living in urban slums in Kenya, Peru ...

With a million people crammed into less than three square kilometers, Mumbai’s Dharavi slum lacks basic amenities, and poverty is widespread. But outsiders are getting a glimpse of life inside this ...

In 2007, as Jessica Posner prepared for her junior fall semester abroad in Nairobi, Kenya, one of her mentors at Wesleyan University suggested she reach out to Kennedy Odede. Jess’s mentor had ...