LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - As the United Nations prepares a 20-year plan to cope with the challenges of booming urbanization, residents of the world's five biggest slums are battling to ...

Despite global efforts to improve housing and reduce urban poverty, slums remain a defining feature of many fast-growing cities in the developing world. ・Slums persist as a major issue in many ...

KIBERA, Kenya (Reuters) - Crispian Amolo has no electricity or running water and shares a hole-in-the-ground toilet with about 90 people but at least he does not have to scramble for 1,000 Kenyan ...

In the 21st century, slums are not anomalies at the margins of cities – they are the very frontline of urbanisation. Over one billion people globally live in informal settlements, often in the heart ...

Argentina's "slum priests," who have been taking the church's teachings to the poor since the 1960s, were energized by Francis's exhortation to Catholic youth in 2013 ...

A vast flow of poor rural people, forced off the land by mechanized agriculture and sometimes sheer hunger, continues to migrate into the developing world's cities, desperate to find work and ...

AMERICUS, Ga. -- Habitat for Humanity has built a Third World slum in its own back yard as a sort of theme park of poverty that it hopes will motivate visitors to contribute to efforts to build ...