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 ...

In this article, we take a look at the 20 countries with the lowest slum population in the world. If you would like to skip our detailed analysis of slum populations, you can directly go to 5 ...

AMERICUS, Ga. (AP) -- 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 ...

Sprawling urban areas in Brazil, Nigeria and Bangladesh are all seeing COVID-19 infections rise rapidly. Yet, our research finds, many residents of slums and squatter settlements are not getting the ...

In the past two years, the number of people living in slums worldwide has grown by 50 million. That's according to the United Nations Habitat Agency. The agency presented its findings at its annual ...

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 ...

Mary Grace Aves is terrified of the deadly coronavirus pandemic, but the best weapons to protect her family -- isolation and sanitation -- are unreachable luxuries in the Manila shantytown they call ...

NAIROBI, Jan 12 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - At Mathari Hospital, flanking Nairobi's Mathare slum, a grandmother waits in line to see a doctor, struggling to calm the crying baby in her arms. "It's ...

Cartels sell water to slum dwellers at hugely inflated prices Dispensers let residents buy clean water with rechargable tokens Nearly half of Kenya's urban population lives in slums NAIROBI, Sept 14 ...

Slum Art Foundation has unveiled the first-of-its-kind polyethylene terephthalate (P.E.T) bottle-built school for slum children in the Ijora Badia community to allow access to art education. The ...

Proportion of Urban Population Living in Slums (2018): 3.5% In 2018, Belize had an urban population of 174,000. In the country, only 6,000 people lived in slums, which is the second-lowest absolute ...