Shadow Secretary Robert Jenrick's description of Birmingham's Handsworth as a "slum" has faced backlash, highlighting the area's diverse community and economic challenges, writes Dr Steven McCabe.

After the first wave of coronavirus hit Myanmar in March, 36-year-old Ma Suu closed her salad stall and pawned her jewelry and gold to buy food to eat.

Outside her home in the Lagos slum of Makoko, Esther Ikechukwu stacks two upturned buckets, places a handbag on top and rests a tablet against it. Her balancing act finished, the desk and the ...

UNIVERSAL CITY, CA – Caring Hand for Children hosted its 19th Annual Fundraising Gala on October 4 at the Hilton Los Angeles ...

The government aims to provide a free single dose of the vaccine to around five crore children aged nine months to under 15 years across the country.

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its ...

Elizabeth Ross Johnson and a Cambodian partner shared a goal of saving children. After she died, their dreams imploded.

In Kawangare, one of the many “informal settlements” – or slums – in Kenya’s capital Nairobi, Jane is often worried about the ...

The concept of affordable housing is nothing new in Kenya. It has been part and parcel of Kenya’s socio-economic landscape.

Despite hundreds of acres of government land lying unused, only a handful of the nearly 50 housing projects launched over the past two decades have been completed, hampered by bureaucratic delays and ...

In a refugee camp in Bangladesh, children jump rope with chains of rubber bands. In wartime Gaza, kids fly kites made from ...

Hundreds of Haitians have attended a funeral for eight people killed in a drone attack last month in Port-au-Prince ...