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 ...

This interview was originally broadcast on Feb. 8, 2012. On Wednesday, Katherine Boo won the National Book Award for nonfiction for Behind the Beautiful Forevers. Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist ...

They once lived the 'gangster life.' Now they tackle food insecurity in Kenya's slums MATHARE, Kenya (AP) — Joseph Kariaga and his friends once lived the “gangster life” in Nairobi’s Mathare slum, ...

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 ...

The operation starting on Tuesday saw armed officers move into the Complexo do Alemao and Penha favelas in Brazil’s most ...

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 ...

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 ...

In this episode on Tekniq, In this episode on Tekniq, we explore the activities pertaining to landfilled waste, a gigantic ...

BEHIND THE BEAUTIFUL FOREVERS: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity, by Katherine Boo (Random House) This book should come with a warning: Reading it may be hazardous to your rosy view that ...

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 ...