Rights weren't handed down — they were fought for around a fire 50,000 years ago. Today's youth needs a reminder.

HYDERABAD: In an initiative aimed at ensuring safe drinking water in low-income and densely populated neighbourhoods, the Hyderabad Metropolitan Water Supply and Sewerage Board (HMWSSB) has planned an ...

MUMBAI: As mid-day approaches in Bhayander’s Navghar area, septuagenarian Sunanda Lakan watches a Marathi television soap with a table fan blowing cool air in her face. In her one-room slum dwelling, ...

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On Saturday, the government used bulldozers in the slums of Thapathali, Gairigaun, and Manohara in Kathmandu to demolish not only hundreds of huts, but also dealt a brutal blow to the dreams of a ...

The standard policy response to slums — relocate people, bulldoze the settlement, and build public housing elsewhere — is older than the slums themselves. It has never worked. The logic seems ...

Slums now occupy nearly 24% of Mumbai’s land and house more than half of its population, according to findings by the Slum Rehabilitation Authority (SRA). Mumbai real estate update: Slums now occupy ...

A Negro boy carries home his school books, but does not get to study them because his neurotic father heaves the lot out the window. A Negro girl, whose father has deserted the family, is free to ...

Journal Editorial Report: Progressives are happy with New York's mayor as the party's poster boy. Photo: Richard Swafford/Zuma Press Talk about socialist irony. Zohran Mamdani said last week that his ...

BUENOS AIRES—For decades, the poor suburbs that ring Argentina’s capital Buenos Aires powered the leftist Peronist movement. On Sunday, they made a historic shift against Peronism that propelled ...

David Edwards has spent over a decade reporting on social justice, human rights and politics for Raw Story. He also writes Crooks and Liars. He has a background in enterprise resource planning and ...