As the intense summer heat continues to scorch Brazil, people in the country's cities, including those in Rio de Janeiro, are ...

IN the dark corners of just about every developing country, you will find a slum or two. These are residential areas with little or no regular water supply; little or no electricity; no wide access ...

At the same time, affordable housing and other fair resolutions to Karachi's housing problems are not on the government's agenda, meaning slums will continue to pop up. The provincial government ...

Mumbai: The Bombay High Court directed the state to file its reply on what steps it took to ensure the slums of Sanjay Gandhi National Park (SGNP) prior to Jan 1, 1995, are removed and ...

According to local press, Galle, 73, was driving out of the city with his wife Miranda Pia Regazzoni, 65, when their GPS directed them through a favela, or slum, called Cidade Alta. Regazzoni ...

Plans to surround a Rio de Janeiro favela (slum) with a 650-metre-long concrete barrier have come under fire from environmentalists, human rights activists and residents who describe it as ...