Slums

Squatters No More: Legitimizing Brazil's Favelas

André Albuquerque | Posted 04.03.2012

André Albuquerque

When people are granted land rights and take ownership for their property, they become active agents of social and community transformation.

Introducing "Breakdown: Americans on the Edge"

Timothy L. O'Brien | Posted 05.01.2012

Timothy L. O'Brien

The Huffington Post is launching a year-long exploration and examination of the lives of middle class and poor Americans in a series called "Breakdown: Americans on the Edge."

Ugandan Youth Work to Address Issues In Kampala's Most Notorious Slum

Heather Box | Posted 04.15.2012

Heather Box

"I want people of the world to know that people like me come from Bwaise. I know you know about the floods, about the poverty, about the sex work. But I want you to know that there are also inspired, committed young people!"

Finding HOPE In the Slums of Kolkata

MeiMei Fox | Posted 03.13.2012

MeiMei Fox

This past December, I returned to Kolkata for the first time since 2004, this time with my husband, Kiran. Here is our story -- Kiran's photographs, my words -- of poverty, inspirational people, and, ultimately, hope.

PHOTOS: Slums Around The World

Posted 12.19.2011

Last month, 3,000 security forces stormed one of Brazil's largest slums, taking control of an area that the country's head of security described as ha...

City Of Hope: The Next Stages Of Rio's War On Drugs

Teresa Goncalves | Posted 01.20.2012

Teresa Goncalves

Last weekend, the Peacekeeping Units (UPP) of the city of Rio de Janeiro faced perhaps their most difficult task in the pacification process, the occupation of the Rocinha community.

Economist Sees Opportunity In Rio Favela

AP | JULIANA BARBASSA | Posted 01.16.2012

RIO DE JANEIRO — One of the Rio shantytowns taken over by police this week has a population that is younger, less educated and more cut off from...

Cameraman Killed In Police Operation In Rio Slum

AP | Posted 01.06.2012

SAO PAULO -- A Brazilian television network says one of its cameramen has been shot to death during a police operation against drug traffickers in a R...

Hunger Hits Nairobi's Slums

Arthur Nazaryan | Posted 12.18.2011

Arthur Nazaryan

Nairobi, Kenya - In one of Nairobi's most dangerous slums, Irish aid agency Concern Worldwide has set up a nutrition clinic to fight widespread hunger...

Migrant Slums Are THE Global Issue of This Century

Jonathan Hursh | Posted 12.06.2011

Jonathan Hursh

If a migrant child or community is provided with opportunities, they can change their lives. Let's take the courage and compassion needed to invest into the children of migrant slums around the world.

A "Hidden Emergency" in Plain Sight: Nairobi's Slums in Freefall

Elizabeth Wright | Posted 10.16.2011

Elizabeth Wright

In Kenya's capital city of Nairobi, two-thirds of the population live far below the poverty line in sprawling urban slums. Hunger is an everyday reality here.

In Kenyan Slums, Access To Education Saves Girls' Lives

Posted 07.23.2011

In the slums of Kenya, much like the slums of any developing country, girls are devalued, undereducated and often sexually exploited. Kennedy Oded...

Girls Are Better at Changing Diapers, Boys Like to Go to School and Play

Pedro C. Moreno | Posted 05.25.2011

Pedro C. Moreno

That is what one man told me at a meeting I had in a slum close to New Delhi, India on the topic of girl's education in early 2009. I had asked a gro...

AWESOME: Nairobi Slum Kids Rap About Recycling, 'Trash Is Cash' (VIDEO)

Peter Jansen | Posted 05.25.2011

Peter Jansen

Even in the slums there are small, very small heroes that have been able to find an alternative way of coming out of poverty at the incredible age of 10 or maybe 13 years old.

ART PRIZE: Mysterious Globetrotting Street Artist JR Wins $100,000 TED Prize

ARTINFO | Posted 05.25.2011

ARTINFO

JR is a 27-year-old street artist who, under a mysterious cloak of semi-anonymity, has been pasting monumental black-and-white photographs across the urban infrastructure of the world's poorest slums.

Satirizing India in the Age of Globalization

Anis Shivani | Posted 05.25.2011

Anis Shivani

This remarkable debut novel is one of the very best novels ever to come out of South Asia, and points to a new direction after the earlier wave of writing by Salman Rushdie, Rohinton Mistry, and Vikram Seth.

Stolen Dreams: An Intimate Look Inside Rio's Slums

Linda Hassler | Posted 05.25.2011

Linda Hassler

New York has just played host to a unique film -- part social commentary, part an alert, part tragedy, part hopeful -- about three teenage girls in an economic and moral morass that leads to prostitution.

Nairobi's Slums

Nicholas van Praag | Posted 05.25.2011

Nicholas van Praag

Urban violence has reached unprecedented levels in many cities around the world, destabilizing whole societies and making life miserable for its victims. I visited Nairobi's Mathare slum.

Finding Parallels Between New York City and Mokattam, a Garbage Village in Cairo

Diana Mao | Posted 05.25.2011

Diana Mao

My experience has shown to me that even in a developed region like New York City, you will find traces of extreme economic inequality, just like in Cairo.

America: Enemy of Change, Midwife of the Future

Michael Vlahos | Posted 05.25.2011

Michael Vlahos

Global change has been building. It is too big for crisis management to suppress much longer. And if we insist on seeing it all as bad, we will miss the actual change itself.

227 Million People Escaped World's Slums In The Last Decade, UN Report Finds

Guardian | Posted 05.25.2011

China and India, the world's most populous countries, have together lifted 125 million people out of slums in the last decade, while a further 112 mil...

Haiti's Rebuilding -- The Larger Picture

Eli Attia | Posted 05.25.2011

Eli Attia

As cities continue to grow to sizes unimaginable only a few years ago, slums within these cities grow at twice that pace. Why are we incapable of accommodating the essential need for shelter?

The Susans I Met In The Slums Of Nairobi

Susan Smalley, Ph.D. | Posted 11.17.2011

Susan Smalley, Ph.D.

I visited Kiberia last week. With local NGO leaders as our guide (and two soldiers carrying automatic rifles) we walked through an adjacent neighborhood slum of Nbuta to visit some families that live there.

22 Girls from Slum in Delhi, India Enroll in School with Help from Fathers

Pedro C. Moreno | Posted 05.25.2011

Pedro C. Moreno

There are close to 3,000 girls who are not attending school in three slums alone, and Father and Daughter Alliance intends to bring them all to school as its work in Delhi expands.

The Real District 9: Cape Town's District Six

newsweek.com | Posted 05.25.2011

Science fiction has always provided the best metaphors for isolation and anomie, and District 9--the two-week-old box-office hit from South African di...