When people are granted land rights and take ownership for their property, they become active agents of social and community transformation.
Timothy L. O'Brien | Posted 05.01.2012
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."
Heather Box | Posted 04.15.2012
"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!"
MeiMei Fox | Posted 03.13.2012
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.
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...
Teresa Goncalves | Posted 01.20.2012
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.
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...
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...
Arthur Nazaryan | Posted 12.18.2011
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...
Jonathan Hursh | Posted 12.06.2011
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.
Elizabeth Wright | Posted 10.16.2011
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.
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...
Pedro C. Moreno | Posted 05.25.2011
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...
Peter Jansen | Posted 05.25.2011
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.
ARTINFO | Posted 05.25.2011
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.
Anis Shivani | Posted 05.25.2011
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.
Linda Hassler | Posted 05.25.2011
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.
Nicholas van Praag | Posted 05.25.2011
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.
Diana Mao | Posted 05.25.2011
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.
Michael Vlahos | Posted 05.25.2011
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.
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...
Eli Attia | Posted 05.25.2011
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?
Susan Smalley, Ph.D. | Posted 11.17.2011
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.
Pedro C. Moreno | Posted 05.25.2011
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.
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...
André Albuquerque | Posted 04.03.2012