Western "poverty porn" narratives about India ignore the country's rapid poverty reduction and economic transformation.

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Children living in a slum in Argentina’s capital are playing cricket as part of an initiative to help them escape poverty and crime. Villa 21-24 in Buenos Aires is a ...

Australian influencer Pete Z has been accused of "poverty tourism" after filming himself "surviving" in an Indian slum, as seen in a viral Instagram video. Is he a slumdog millionaire? An Australian ...

Kennedy Odede knows what poverty is. He grew up in Kibera, the largest slum in the Kenyan capital Nairobi. It's a place ...

Today, Kenya joins the world in celebrating the World Habitat Day whose theme is; voices from the slums. While Kenya is ranked a middle income country, World Bank statistics show that 4 in every 10 ...

Every month, Jenifer Wangari (not her real name) has to choose between purchasing food and taking her three children to school. She stays in Kibera, one of the poorest slums in Nairobi. She and her ...

NEW DELHI, India -- India's poorest souls crowd the banks of the Yamuna in an early morning mist, dumping waste, washing clothes and bathing in one of India's holiest -- and most polluted -- rivers.

BIG ISSUE founder John Bird warned today that “poverty is destroying us” as he marked his 80th birthday.Lord Bird has been pushing for stronger legislative scrutiny of child poverty through the ...

Residents in Venezuela's Petare, one of Latin America’s largest slums, are struggling amid chronic shortages and economic ...

SHOFCO CEO Kennedy Odede engages with a SWEP member at the inauguration of the Bondo SUN Community Centre in Siaya County, Kenya. SHOFCO CEO Kennedy Odede engages with a SWEP member at the ...

Danish photographer Jacob Riis captured the inhumane conditions of New York's slums in his book, "How the Other Half Lives." He documented the poverty previously hidden in darkness using a magnesium ...