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 ...

Holding firmly at a cue-stick on his right hand, the young man bends over a table strewn with tiny but differently coloured and numbered. With undivided attention, he points the cue-stick at a white ...

Sustainable Development Goal 6 has a target to achieve access to adequate and equitable sanitation and hygiene for all by 2030 An international study on container-based sanitation (CBS) systems has ...

An international study on container-based sanitation (CBS) systems has found that this portable toilet option significantly improves the quality of life for people living in urban slums in Kenya, Peru ...

MATHARE, Kenya (AP) — Joseph Kariaga and his friends once lived the “gangster life” in Nairobi’s Mathare slum, snatching phones, mugging people and battling police. But when Kariaga's brother was shot ...

The neighborhood of Cota 905 in Caracas shares a name with the gang that runs it with impunity - Copyright AFP Yuri CORTEZ The neighborhood of Cota 905 in Caracas ...

MUMBAI (Reuters) - In Nehru Nagar, the teeming Mumbai slum featured in the Golden Globe-winning film "Slumdog Millionaire," the only music heard is on tiny radio sets and the young boys have no ...

Weeks before the Delhi Assembly election, political parties -- be it the incumbent Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), or the rival Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Congress -- have all started talking about ...