A devastating fire destroys a crowded slum and leaves thousands homeless in Bangladesh capital - A devastating fire in a crowded slum in Bangladesh’s capital has destroyed 1,500 shanties and left thou ...

A still from Lockstitch Lives shows a young girl from a family of domestic workers in Katarpuri, Gurgaon, home to several such workers. Pic/Helmstudio Plug in your earphones and step into Lockstitch ...

Beginning with a striking montage of alternating images of urban Delhi and the capital's underbelly, Aditya Bhasin's award-winning docudrama Pata Lapata, that explores the life of children living in ...

This highly accomplished documentary finds individual stories of hope and resilience amid a refugee-packed slum’s grinding poverty. Dragged to Beirut by a domestic partner’s job posting there in 2015, ...

Two people were killed and at least 13 injured Tuesday when an elevated walkway collapsed in a condemned Italian slum notorious for its links to organized criminal groups. The Italian Fire Brigade ...

When Masoom Ali Shaikh arrived in Mumbai in 1974 as a young man from northern India, the patch of land where he set up shop was “just a creek with no proper road and garbage all around,” he said.

Oluwaseyi Omowunmi Popogbe works for Crawford University, Ogun State, Nigeria. Social exclusion means being excluded from participating wholly in the society, often as a result of belonging to a ...

MUMBAI, Aug 25 (Reuters) - A joint-venture led by billionaire Gautam Adani is struggling to secure land to rehabilitate poor residents of one of Asia's largest slums in Mumbai, a government official ...