MEDELLIN, Colombia, Sept 10 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - On the upper reaches of one of Medellin's poorest hillside slums overlooking a warren of tin-roofed shacks, scores of residents lug ...

MEDELLIN, Colombia, March 22 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - As a pink dusk settles on this poor hillside slum in the city of Medellin, 19-year-old Esteban Arrieta skips and shadow punches with a small ...

* Ongoing war creates social problems, pressures cities * Next government faces large social divide, joblessness By Frank Jack Daniel SOACHA, Colombia, June 10 (Reuters) - Spread along a muddy ridge ...

Sprawling urban areas in Brazil, Nigeria and Bangladesh are all seeing COVID-19 infections rise rapidly. Yet, our research finds, many residents of slums and squatter settlements are not getting the ...

"If I stay at home, I will die of starvation," one street seller said. RIO DE JANEIRO -- Many of the 1.5 million people living in the slums of Rio de Janeiro have been forced into making heartbreaking ...

The most important factor in enabling the spread of pandemics in slums is the neglect of these marginalized populations by governing elites. By Lee W. RileyEva Raphael and Robert Snyder Dr. Riley, Dr.

MEDELLIN, Colombia (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - On the upper reaches of one of Medellin's poorest hillside slums overlooking a warren of tin-roofed shacks, scores of residents lug wheelbarrows and ...