Does slum tourism make us better people? Date: January 30, 2010 Source: University of the West of England Summary: Slum tourism is a growth industry with more and more wealthy travelers opting to ...

About a sixth of the world's population — nearly 1 billion people — live in slums, and that number could double by 2030 if developed nations don't reverse course and start giving the issue ...

Groups like UN-Habitat and Slum Dwellers International are working with local organizations in slum communities to reach people in places where assistance is most needed.

More than 80,000 people in Japan go missing every year. Osaka's Kamagasaki slum is where some people go when they don't want to be found.

The people of Kibera are increasingly organised, and increasingly determined to be involved in any plans to spruce up their slum. In this they are typical of their counterparts elsewhere.

By 2030, an estimated 5 billion of the world's 8.1 billion people will live in cities. About 2 billion of them will live in slums, primarily in Africa and Asia, lacking access to clean drinking ...

The health of the urban poor, people with low socio-economic status living in urban areas, is usually conflated with that of slum dwellers.

Budots, a genre of deliberately tacky dance music from the slums of the Philippines, is shaped by the noise, joy and violence of the streets. Take a listen.

The day Bergoglio was named pope, people in the villa celebrated in the streets as if Argentina had just won the World Cup. In recent months, the pope has continued to keep tabs on the slum priests.

Though Kenya's government had warned people that it would forcefully evacuate anyone living in the settlements along swollen riverbanks and overflowing dams, the demolition of makeshift houses ...

A 2018 Bombay High Court verdict quashed Maharashtra government’s land acquisition in Kurla area for slum rehabilitation ...

In the slums of New Delhi, Mumbai, Cape Town, Manila, Karachi, Rio de Janeiro and Nairobi, people’s daily wage-earning struggles have already been intensified by lockdowns.