This infographic shows the countries in which the proportion of the urban population living in slums was greater than 30 percent in 2022.

Close to 900 million people across the Global South live in densely packed urban slums, which often sit in floodplains. A new study finds that one in three slum dwellers is at risk of “disastrous” ...

Australian influencer Pete Z has been accused of "poverty tourism" after filming himself "surviving" in an Indian slum, as ...

A terrible mix of unemployment, poverty, crime, and the climate crisis is making life unbearable for those living in the ...

Stencilled just above the stairs, the red mark in Mumbai's Dharavi slum is tantamount to an eviction notice for residents ...

Surgical Accredited & Trained Healthcare Initiative (SATHI) programme, a pioneering healthcare model, has emerged as a ...

MAKOKO, Nigeria (AP) — Several canoes paddle toward Makoko, a vast floating slum built on stilts in the lagoon at one end of Nigeria’s economic hub of Lagos. Riding on the vessels are giant cardboard ...

Argentina's "slum priests," who have been taking the church's teachings to the poor since the 1960s, were energized by Francis's exhortation to Catholic youth in 2013 ...

UK MP Robert Jenrick faced backlash after he called Birmingham’s Handsworth area similar to "a slum” and noting he saw “no white face".

Venezuelan authorities have begun moving hundreds of squatters out of an abandoned skyscraper in Caracas and into new homes. Named after its developer, financier David Brillembourg, "The Tower of ...

Bipinkumar Padaya (C) live in a one-storey home crammed into a tangle of alleys - Copyright ENGINEER JEROME MARTINEZ/AFP Handout Bipinkumar Padaya (C) live in a one ...