Under the act, the government must identify slums, declare them to be slums and then build permanent homes for residents, or improve conditions in the slums.
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It's the slums of the train, and the people of the slums aren't taking it anymore.
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You can't talk about ending the slums without first saying profit must be taken out of slums.
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The organization employs 15 local women from Mumbai slums to make sanitary pads, while another 50 women distribute them door to door in the slums.
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Beneath the Sept of Baelor and the slums of Fleabottom.
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You have a billion people who are living in slums.
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Yet when slums are demolished, other ones become more crowded.
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And these can be applied in slums, in cities everywhere.
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Meanwhile, life in Rio's favela slums is a little different.
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The quiet ones are the ones really from the slums.
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Many migrants end up in overcrowded slums, lacking basic facilities.
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Chef Pasquale, Sonorous Drakeo the Ruler - "Out The Slums" feat.
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The slums district of the city of Athkatla is bustling.
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Fires at factories, slums and markets are common in Bangladesh.
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You then fitted a clean water pipe in the slums.
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Haiti, in the slums of Peru ... These intractable, healthcare problems.
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Residents in the nation's slums suffer with the economy's collapse.
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Homesick for Jim Crow, for poll taxes and segregated slums?
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Meanwhile, evictions of slums in cities have left thousands more homeless.
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If government treated slums as real city districts they might improve.
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The rapid influx of migrants has created sprawling slums around factories.
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One-fifth of the city's 6 million people live in slums.
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For Silva, the journey to the podium began in Rio's slums.
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But Dharavi is much more than one of Asia's largest slums.
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A satellite image closeup of the Kiberia Slums in Nairobi, Kenya .
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The structure that dominates the slums, though, is the Planar Sphere.
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To deliver an aid container to the slums of Sierra Leone.
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Heaps of garbage in Kibera, Nairobi — one of Africa's largest slums.
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"Lindsay Prods Banks: Aid Stores in Slums," its afternoon sibling chirped.
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Worldwide, about a billion people live in slums and informal settlements.
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Worldwide, about a billion people live in slums and informal settlements.
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"What matters is to get people out of these slums," Brice said.
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As in, the type of shack found in the slums of Brazil.
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They are often ringed by closely packed slums controlled by neighbourhood gangs.
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The backdrop to the story is the slums of Pakistan's capital Islamabad.
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" She added that the people from the slums of Katwe have "dignity.
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No one cared when drugs and death were contained in the slums.
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People had never been so well off... they lived in slums before.
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Many end up in overcrowded slums, on the streets, and under bridges.
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Slums in developing countries are more crowded now, and with appalling sanitation.
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Chávez recruited gangs from the slums, known as colectivos, to terrorise his.
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In the 19th-century cholera epidemics ravaged the slums of American cities.
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Upscale apartment blocks and opulent mansions abut hillside slums and urban blight.
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You might call these the slums, but the film is not slumming.
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The question eventually is, if you can build increasingly higher-quality housing in slums, on land that is mapped and in communities that are hooked up to power grids and the internet, will they still be slums at all?
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For marginalized Kenyans, like those in Nairobi's slums, police killings are nothing new.
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Most of Nairobi's 4 million people live in low income areas or slums.
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It's not considered a third-world country anymore but the slums are everywhere.
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This is causing resentment in the densely populated slums of Windhoek, the capital.
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The resulting 20173th-century slums were dramatically visualized in photography by Jacob Riis.
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Those moving from slums were thrilled by relatively spacious rooms and indoor bathrooms.
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Well, not the slums, but to get out of somewhere and do something.
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Even our slums had pavement on the roads and water in the taps.
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The beach is surrounded by slums so lots of garbage comes from there.
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Groups congregate to take drugs on the fringes of towns and Monrovia's slums.
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At the same time, relocation and redevelopment of slums have not kept pace.
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Op-Ed Contributor MANILA — Mornings in the Philippines reveal bodies dumped outside slums.
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But the day's unrest slowly ebbed, and moved into the slums that night.
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He wound up meandering through slums in countries like the Philippines and Bulgaria.
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As well as its picturesque welcoming center, you are taken to Columbia's slums.
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I started my social work as a volunteer in the slums of Lisbon.
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A very similar 12-hour course also works in the slums of Nairobi.
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His suppliers, based in downtown Nairobi, are too afraid to visit the slums.
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Schools, he reasoned, were often more sanitary than housing, particularly in the slums.
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Refuse piles up in slums, next to government offices and outside luxury condominiums.
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We have been living in one of the largest slums in South America.
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Riot police fired tear gas in Kibera and Mathare, two volatile Nairobi slums.
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Nairobi's tribally diverse slums bore the brunt of the violence a decade ago.
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Of the 10 million people added to Africa's urban population each year, about two thirds end up in slums, according to U.N. Habitat, which held a meeting in March in Nigeria about ways to improve living conditions in Africa's slums.
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The exercise helped him escape a downward spiral of drug abuse within Nairobi's slums.
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According to the UN, two-thirds of that growth will take place in slums.
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He spent time volunteering at schools and orphanages in the slums of Kibera, Kenya.
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But it also has millions of poor people living in slums wedged between skyscrapers.
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There were the same broad thoroughfares and marketplaces, grand religious buildings and crowded slums.
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From west London to Chinese villages to Indian slums, three great changes are afoot.
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However, his abrasive language and insistence on clearing city slums has alienated many voters.
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It was not technology that was stopping shopkeepers in Nairobi's slums from having electricity.
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In Lagos, the state government frequently bulldozes slums, but almost never provides alternative housing.
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Nearly half the city's twelve million people live in slums or informal housing settlements.
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Many live in sprawling urban slums or favelas, which first developed as squatter communities.
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There are 351 slums deemed structurally unsafe in Egypt, most of them in Cairo.
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About a quarter of the world's urban population live in slums, says U.N.-Habitat.
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The descendant of slave owners, she worked to improve housing conditions in black slums.
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In previous decades when slums were cleared, those displaced were sent into public housing.
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And it's everywhere you go, from the churches to the jails to the slums.
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He recounted his experiences with several co-authors in "Families of the Slums" (1967).
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The government aims to regenerate the inner city by replacing Kebele slums with condominiums.
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But his abrasive language and insistence on clearing city slums has alienated many voters.
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The truly vital events are happening in refugee camps, detention centers, slums and prisons.
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Because in his mind he's rescued me — rescued me from the slums of the theater!
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In 2005 severe flooding killed more than 500 people, most of them living in slums.
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Others cram into slums, or erect flimsy shelters from tarpaulin and plywood on work sites.
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Bringing low-carbon transitions to slums will require governments teaming up with communities, it said.
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But his abrasive language and insistence on clearing the city's slums has alienated many voters.
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African governments often see slums as an eyesore and would like to do just that.
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They reside in the slums and are determined that their children should not stay there.
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I must have been about 10 years old when we visited the slums of Jamaica.
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He moved his parents and seven siblings into his city-centre flat from the slums.
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Many end up in slums and informal settlements, and are particularly vulnerable to the pollution.
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Several protests against Maduro have broken out in working-class neighborhoods and slums this week.
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As African cities boom, new buildings, including slums, are springing up on the urban periphery.
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"Slums are places where people make the transition from rural to city," said McKinsey's Woetzel.
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Yet millions of Jakartans also live in slums with pirated electricity and no running water.
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In the Korogocho and Kibera slums in Nairobi, Kenya, one in four women are raped.
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A kid from Rio's slums picking herself up to win redemption in her own hometown?
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The district capitals in Micronesia are described as "semi-modern slums," where unemployment is rampant.
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They have not created vast slums nor, despite their many protests, have they threatened stability.
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Gangsters control the entrances to urban slums, checking identity cards and demanding payment from residents.
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The unequal distribution of land doesn't just create slums: it also raises costs for businesses.
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Another tension in your book is the contrast between the trailer parks and the slums.
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Now he has turned to drugs and corruption in the slums of Rio de Janeiro.
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In the slums, children sniff glue because it helps them forget the pangs of hunger.
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Unlike many other slums worldwide the lack of services - not housing - is the major problem.
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So I was really fiending for the darkest, sexiest stuff, the absolute slums of life.
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Much of the time, she lived in slums, because that was all she could afford.
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"I never even saw any nuns in those slums that I worked in," he said.
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It's predicted that by 2020 there will be around 1.4 billion people living in slums.
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Its ambitious goal: to push heavily armed gangs from slums and construct permanent police outposts.
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I started telling them about the container and how I wanted to rebuild the slums.
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Such projects were designed by the government in the 1930s as alternatives to city slums.
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"In some slums of the city, there is no presence of the state," she said.
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The Sunni slums that did not are being demolished and redeveloped for his bourgeois supporters.
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India's slums, for instance, are often portrayed as emblems of the country's struggle with poverty.
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The city's slums - many located on land vulnerable to flooding - are another challenge, said Lee.
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The ethnic geography of Gujarat was transformed, with most of its Muslims crowded into slums.
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I had been told that favelas were the slums of Rio, places I shouldn't go.
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For some, the drug trade offers an escape from the slums that litter Tirana's hinterland.
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Schemes are underway to improve favelas in Rio de Janeiro and slums in Indonesia, for example.
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In the slums of the future, virtual reality junkies satisfy their violent impulses in online entertainment.
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He preached against inequality while standing at the edge of one of the country's poorest slums.
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He works with a few dozen, mostly unpaid colleagues, who document the killings in Nairobi's slums.
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The need to be near jobs helps explain why slums often sit next to staggering wealth.
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Homicide mostly affects Rio's slums rather than tourist zones or areas near Olympic sites, IHS added.
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Shack fires in densely-populated South African slums often spread quickly and can threaten whole neighbourhoods.
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Most urban Africans simply build for themselves, which means the vast majority languish in informal slums.
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The slums that host a quarter of all India's city dwellers feel a long way off.
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During their visit, the royal couple chatted with local children who lived in the nearby slums.
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Fans remain exposed to the elements and the track runs close by slums on one side.
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The glitter and neon spandex of the Olympics haven't polished life up here in the slums.
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Elsewhere, as in the slums of Nairobi, people connect themselves to the grid through illegal hookups.
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People crowded into slums, shantytowns and favelas from where they were hard put to reach jobs.
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Perhaps the finest works on display are Thomas Annan's images of Glasgow's slums in 1871 (below).
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The promise of small-scale solar panels to deliver power to slums has always been apparent.
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For many struggling to survive in the slums, nutritious food remains a luxury they cannot afford.
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Drive into the slums and the more acute nature of the lack of basic utilities emerges.
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Several other slums in the city that hosted the 2016 Olympics have also seen increased shootouts.
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In the literature produced by NGOs and charities, it suffers from overcrowded slums and brutal crime.
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In Tumaco's muddy slums, youth idle on street corners, drinking beer and listening to reggaeton music.
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The true story of Phiona Mutesi, a teenage chess prodigy from the slums of Uganda. 10.
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Suhani and her co-workers aim to replicate the model in 500 slums across the globe.
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In the slums, people have nothing; they literally build their homes out of rubbish and waste.
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Vast areas of the city look like slums, interspersed with high-rises and affluent gated communities.
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According to housing advocates, half of Port Harcourt's more than 1 million residents live in slums.
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Set in the Dublin slums, it centers on a poet who perilously resembles an I.R.A. soldier.
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I've seen this same dynamic in my hometown, Kibera, one of the largest slums in Kenya.
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Then, strangely, the gene was linked to enhanced cognitive performance in children living in Brazilian slums.
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This presents major public health problems with waste dumped in walkways and gutters in the slums.
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More and more people are living in the microbe-rich megacity slums of the developing world.
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Mr Sadr has a strong base in the slums of Baghdad and Iraq's second city, Basra.
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"If one looks past the open drains and plastic sheets, one will see that slums are ecosystems buzzing with activity... Creating neat low-income housing estates will not work unless they allow for many of the messy economic and social activities that thrive in slums," he said.
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She explains how they grew up dirt poor, like pretty much everyone in the slums of Davao.
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Children were taken from inner city slums, put on "orphan trains," and shipped West to be adopted.
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Use of private tankers to provide water are mostly inaccessible to those living in the city's slums.
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Even if you're in the downtown area with skyscrapers there's always the slums right around the corner.
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Some are forced to live in slums, sometimes waiting hours to be able to use a toilet.
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Many slums are hard for the emergency services to enter, thanks to informal structures that block streets.
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Almost 21m Cairenes live in slums the government considers unsafe, without basic amenities like sewerage and water.
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In the country's slums, arbitrary lists of supposed drug-users determine who will be shot to death.
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And her tough approach has more admirers on the affluent hillsides than in the slums between them.
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With more than 52 percent of Mumbai residing in slums, you have to ask - what is Mumbai?
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In Nairobi's slums, where some of the worst violence was concentrated in 2007, people are already nervous.
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They're also working on more advanced pieces that introduce branches to the network for systems like slums.
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"Children in urban slums tend to be from families that are among the most vulnerable," Narayan said.
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Today more than 11 million Brazilians live in slums that provide footholds for mosquitoes in urban areas.
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In recent months the authorities have targeted more than 280 other slums in Shanghai for similar "makeovers".
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Slums are considered illegal in many countries, and residents often live in fear of eviction and harassment.
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Higareda hails from Mexico where she said she sees beautiful, expensive houses alongside the poverty of slums.
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There are several large slums in the east, but they are regarded as outposts in enemy territory.
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Unlike in many other slums worldwide, however, the lack of services - not housing - is the major problem.
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To them, it is a place scarred by slums and blight, remediable only through razing and modernization.
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Today one quarter of the world's city dwellers live in slums - and they are there to stay.
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A quarter of India's urban population lives in informal housing including slums, according to social consultancy FSG.
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The suicide rate is most likely higher because of undocumented deaths in red-light districts and slums.
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They float through open drains of sunbaked slums and shards pierce the bellies of flamingos and turtles.
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Sauti Kuu, based in Nairobi, serves children and young people, particularly from urban slums and rural communities.
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About 113 million people across Latin America and the Caribbean - nearly one in five - live in slums.
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I flew to Kenya to volunteer at Blessed Hope Primary School in the Kibera slums of Nairobi.
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Hostile Imams began preaching hate speech against infidels from Western European city slums to Somalia to Pakistan.
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In this energetic satire, two brothers from Mumbai's slums hope to play for a local cricket team.
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Factory workers shiver in bread lines in the slums while the wealthy continue their glittering social whirl.
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Feels a lot like San Francisco in many ways because it's still very unequal, there's still slums.
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When George Osodi enters Nigerian slums to take pictures, he sometimes gets mistaken as a government agent.
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In one of the city's slums, with some 500 cinder-block homes, there's only one communal water tap.
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Around 820,000 people live in slums in Chennai, according to a 2017 report from the Tamil Nadu government.
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His campaign video contrasts the squalor of Iran's slums with the luxurious malls frequented by Mr Rouhani's supporters.
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From rural provinces to dense slums and big cities, violence against women and girls is pervasive in Brazil.
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Slums grow because they provide something poor people need: affordable housing near to work, schools and public transport.
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Less authoritarian governments, such as Kenya's, have tried to "upgrade" slums in situ by building newer, better housing.
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Aarusha's successful pitch is that its hostels are safer than slums or informal "guest houses", especially for women.
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In Yanqing the authorities have used the expo and the games as a reason to knock down slums.
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Shopping malls, petrol stations and apartment blocks were levelled; bulldozers cut through slums, leaving tens of thousands homeless.
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Instead of Cairo's teeming slums and cramped alleys it features wide boulevards and neat rows of high-rises.
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There were smaller, more local bars too, in areas that would be considered more like slums or ghettos.
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VENEZUELA-POLITICS/POLICE(PIX)(GRAPHIC) Inside a raid in Maduro's crackdown on critics in Venezuela's slums On Jan.
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In Slums of Beverly Hills, Vivian (Lyonne) decides to try out her cousin Rita's (Marisa Tomei) massive vibrator.
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Sprawling slums without paved roads and running water provide a steady stream of recruits into the crime armies.
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Odinga said the results were false, triggering scattered demonstrations in his stronghold of Kisumu and slums in Nairobi.
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"In Duterte, the people of the slums believed they had finally found their savior, their champion," Delano says.
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" Old comrades told me that they were attracted by his professed commitment to building a "Medellín without slums.
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George Kinoti, born in the slums, rose from burly beat cop to head the powerful police investigation department.
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It's one thing ripping off the system, but another keeping aid from people in the slums for cash.
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The production runs in repertory with "La Bohème," Puccini's tragic tale of love and death in the slums.
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The caraqueños refer to their slums as los cerros —the hills—because they occupy the mountainsides above Caracas.
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Gateway works in informal settlements (sometimes known as slums), using technology to improve health, nutrition and human rights.
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Many residents are isolated in enclaves and slums, constantly struggling to achieve cultural acceptance and economic well-being.
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Outside of Nairobi's slums and the western city of Kisumu, life had largely returned to normal on Sunday.
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The Kenyan organization Ujamaa Africa teaches the courses, employing 81 trainers, mostly in schools in Nairobi's major slums.
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The migrants, whose story Ms. Lee tells in "Pachinko," congregated in slums and performed mostly low-paid labor.
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The initiative is among 111 projects in a network of sustainable solutions in the slums, known as favelas.
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The city is home to more that 21987 million, and a third of the population lives in slums.
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Six years ago, we launched a pilot project to develop a household toilet for residents living in slums.
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Your car ride from the airport runs along a bridge that coasts over sprawling slums and refugee camps.
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"Private cities risk becoming islands of wealth in a sea of slums if not planned well," Cap said.
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Meanwhile, Hindu activists linked to Modi's party conducted workshops in slums in an effort to ease public discontent.
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The daily quest for clean water and firewood is an unceasing nightmare for the residents of Mutare's slums.
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In Queen of Katwe, a Christian missionary brings opportunity to illiterate children in the slums he came from.
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The slums are built on swamps and wetlands, so 70 percent of homes are prone to heavy floods.
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That involves security forces raiding crime-ridden slums as seen in Mexico, Colombia, Brazil and parts of Central America.
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Sun-Yat blamed centralized development that focuses services and industries in urban areas for the rise in private slums.
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"It's better not to have slums," Hossain told the Thomson Reuters Foundation at his ministerial office in central Dhaka.
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Yet the khrushchevki would acquire a less flattering nickname: khruschoby, a neologism that combines the Russian word for slums.
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About 2900 million people live in India's slums, according to census data, which activists say is a low estimate.
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"When they build up walls around slums to hide poverty, our government is also hiding gender issues," says Ribeiro.
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In 2005 in Zimbabwe's capital, Harare, the bulldozing of slums that voted for the opposition left 700,000 people homeless.
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Those whose buildings were destroyed, whether investors in the city or shack-owners in the slums, were therefore peeved.
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Such rapid urbanisation has often happened without proper urban planning, allowing slums to expand without basic infrastructure and services.
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On the other side of the water, the Slums smoldered behind the derelict cranes of the Port of Oakland.
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In Mr Odinga's strongholds, in the slums of Nairobi and in Western Kenya, protesters blocked roads and burned tyres.
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Nearly 300,000 people live in the slums alongside the polluted Rio Ozama in Santo Domingo, the Dominican Republic's capital.
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The Front in the Fight for Housing offers families an escape from violence-plagued slums that ring the metropolis.
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About 65 million people live in India's slums, according to official data, which activists say is a low estimate.
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Meanwhile, residents of central Rio continue to worry about growing violence in the many slums that dot the city.
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Anger at police is flaring in opposition areas in western counties, Nairobi slums and the coastal city of Mombasa.
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Close by, in factories and crowded slums, young working women also grasped the power of collective action for change.
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About 1.5 billion people in the region still lack basic sanitation services, while 250 million people live in slums.
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In 2010, a team of researchers began giving two-hundred-dollar payments to addicts and criminals in Liberian slums.
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One scene features a Grand Prix race in the slums, giving viewers their first and only glimpse of poverty.
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"Part of it has been gentrified, so you'll find trendy bars and restaurants right next to slums," he added.
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Last year it announced, rather ambitiously, that it would eradicate all slums from Cairo by the end of 2019.
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The majority of deaths occurred in shanty town slums, which are home to more than half of Mumbai's population.
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Supporters of resettlement say people living in the slums are too vulnerable to frequent floods and rising sea levels.
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"The slums have become an eyesore for the state," said Abdul Karim, planning officer at the Freetown City Council.
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"I support those working to improve the slums ... to bring hope to the lives of slum dwellers," Macarthy added.
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During the Arab Spring, he joined protests, but now an autocratic regime rules while zealots seethe in the slums.
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As developers rush to cash in, unplanned urban sprawl is leading to congestion, flooding and more slums, analysts say.
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Slums near the city center have "densified" massively in recent years to house a growing urban population, said Hasan.
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Sean Fox, a lecturer at the University of Bristol in England, has studied the political economy of urban slums.
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From the 2150s on, the city began moving former factory workers and their descendants from slums to social housing.
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About a third of India's 1.25 billion population lives in cities, many in overcrowded slums or on the streets.
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To most people, this means your physical location — homes in desirable neighborhoods are worth more than those in slums.
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Maldonado was a fierce Chávez supporter and actively participated in the government's efforts to uplift the slums of Caracas.
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"The tenants (in private slums) have no security as rents are raised according to the owner-developers' whims," she said.
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Elemental's first major project upgrading slums in Iquique, a coastal city in northern Chile, earned Aravena international attention in 2003.
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Most urban Africans live in slums; migrants are often not much better off than they were in the countryside. Why?
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The violence is typically concentrated in the favelas, the hilltop slums where heavily-armed drug gangs have long held sway.
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Finding ways to improve slums will be one of the most pressing problems of the 21st century for African governments.
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The state scarcely enters: in most slums, health care and education are provided privately or by charities, if at all.
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In Kigali, Rwanda's spotlessly clean capital, taxi drivers point out patches of neat grass where slums have been torn up.
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Sydney: From the 1800s, Darling Harbour was the working port for Sydney, home to shipyards, factories, warehouses and crowded slums.
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In 1992 riots provoked by Hindu nationalists killed more than 900 people, mainly from the Muslim minority, in Bombay's slums.
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A child of the slums, the charismatic Jokowi promised to increase jobs, bolster human rights and crack down on corruption.
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Poverty is equally entrenched, as a visit to Manila's slums or the southern, partly Muslim island of Mindanao makes clear.
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The charter's commitments, written in stone on a monument in the square, include demolishing slums and building well-lit suburbs.
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Mumbai has an active b-boying culture, with several crews working closely with children from lower-income neighbourhoods and slums.
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With any luck, Google's project and the 2016 Olympics will leave a lasting and positive legacy on the sprawling slums.
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Conference participants stressed that cities, and slums in particular, could also be a significant source of inspiration for climate adaptation.
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In financial hub Mumbai, about 60 percent of the 18 million population live in crowded slums and other informal homes.
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The fight takes place in the slums, separated from the city's high rises by a swath of shallow, grimy water.
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In contrast to previous popes, Francis formed his style of ministry in the slums of South America, not European seminaries.
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He'd been industriously acquiring items critical to a life other than newbie status in the hierarchy of the borderland slums.
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The Lagos state government announced its intention to demolish all waterfront slums last October, saying it was for "public safety".
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About 65 million people live in India's slums, according to 2011 census data, which activists say is a low estimate.
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Many end up in overcrowded slums, lacking even basic facilities and with no claim on the land or their property.
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He helped Snowden to escape undetected from the Mira hotel to the city's slums, where many of his clients lived.
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One of the toughest and most vulnerable aspects of life in the slums is the battle to find regular work.
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Strong winds and delayed firefighting equipment resulted in an uncontrollable conflagration tearing through overpopulated slums and their mainly wooden houses.
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According to Mr. Jerven, rapid urbanization in Africa often leads to sprawling slums, low wages and legions of disenfranchised youth.
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Set in the cramped alleys of Dharavi, one of Asia's largest slums, "Gully Boy" is Akhtar's most accomplished work yet.
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As the Industrial Revolution chugged on, workers flocked to England's growing cities, living in slums and working for paltry wages.
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The similarities aren't coincidental: the creators of each game were inspired by the destitute slums and suburbs in today's world.
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Low-cost private schools are expanding across the region, particularly in unplanned slums where there are not enough government schools.
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Others said they heard nothing at all: Manila slums are seething, raucous places, where even gunfire can be drowned out.
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Instead, she turned her attention to the residents of the densely packed slums where most of the bodies were found.
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Lagos, Nairobi, and South Africa's Johannesburg also house some of the largest slums on the continent: Makoko, Kibera and Soweto.
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"The effects (on slums) will be devastating," said Angela Aidala, a researcher at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health.
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By early 1967, over 1.5 million refugees had drifted into urban slums, where they were susceptible to Viet Cong propaganda.
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He had also been active in recruiting others from the city's western slums to join the opposition, his cousin says.
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They are located along a 14 km (8.7 miles) stretch along the waterfront, dotted with defunct warehouses, jetties and slums.
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Some officials in India have tried to fix their slums by simply razing them, reasoning that the constructions are illegal.
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In some areas, the effort to clear slums or informal markets for construction projects even began to appear too aggressive.
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I used to go to the private school during the day and play cricket with the boys from the slums.
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Social workers go into slums, where these warnings might not reach, and hand out rehydration packets and pamphlets on heat safety.
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Here's Uncle Sam, at his direction, looking on as Italian rats "directly from the slums of Europe" pour into the country.
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Alia tried to steer her boys away from the gangsters that seemed to rule the backstreets and alleys of the slums.
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The museum will seek to dispel some of the negative notions and encourage a greater respect for urban slums, Rubio said.
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The deaf people who make up 40 percent of the staff in Zambia had never worked; other staff came from slums.
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Her daughter brought her to Canada for a 22-day vacation—which is nearly unheard of in the slums of Kolkata.
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It has ordered that tens of thousands of the community, who live in small settlements and slums, be identified and repatriated.
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So the idea behind the legislation was, why not settle them where they live, and transform these slums into liveable habitats?
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There are the post-war high rises around cities like Marseille and Rotterdam, typically inner-city slums relocated by idealistic planners.
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In 1959, the Community Redevelopment Agency, a governmental organization tasked with clearing slums and blighted areas, decided to revitalize Bunker Hill.
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Mother Teresa was venerated during her lifetime for her service to the poor and needy in the slums of Kolkata, India.
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With rapid urbanization, a shortage of affordable homes has spurred the growth of slums and informal settlements in cities across India.
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It was there, in the slums of Manila, that he met a local teen named Sonny Boy who lived in poverty.
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Many centers still report rapid price gains thanks to heavy government investment and a national program to redevelop the country's slums.
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Barely literate and living in a shanty in Lyari, one of Karachi's most fetid slums, he was not expected to win.
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Before socialist Hugo Chavez swept to power in 1999, the colectivos were leftist activists working in some of Venezuela's poorest slums.
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Governor Ambode said evictions across the city are necessary to protect Lagos residents from kidnappers and criminals hiding in the slums.
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Away from the river tens of thousands live in crowded slums—mainly rural Cambodians yearning for a bit of urban prosperity.
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A spike in violent crime in Rio has raised concern ahead of the Games, despite police efforts to pacify the slums.
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Better roads typically do not reach into slums; new apartments are never targeted at people earning a few dollars a day.
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One the big surprises of your book is the discovery that slums aren't actually cheap as compared to middle-class neighborhoods.
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These were turn-of-the-century ethnic enclaves and slums as mere way stations for newcomers on the road to assimilation.
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That includes people who are sometimes called "the invisible" — those who live in slums, who are homeless, or who are institutionalized.
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On three of those trips, he conducted swim clinics in the favelas — Rio's notorious slums — always accompanied by a security detail.
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The photographer snapped the picture: a distraught woman cradling her lifeless husband under a streetlight, a Pietà of the Manila slums.
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More than a quarter of Delhi's population of about 18 million lives in slums and informal settlements, according to some estimates.
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Since the results were announced, Odinga supporters have mounted sporadic protests in Kisumu and the Nairobi slums that are his strongholds.
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If Hooda is successful in tabling his Right to Clean Air Bill, millions living in the slums of Delhi will benefit.
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Its developers, Map Kibera Trust, say the initiative gives visibility to marginalized communities, with two other Nairobi slums replicating the idea.
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For instance, in the slums of India's New Delhi, a typical structured classroom setting just was not going to be possible.
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Gillette has been painting scenes of Disney characters juxtaposed with post-apocalyptic landscapes, landfill sites, and slums for over 20 years.
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"These are people who once lived in slums in Manila and in cemeteries in Cebu," she told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.
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"This is my experience of having been in many dark places — prisons, psychiatric wards, slums, leper colonies," he told The Economist.
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Today I am building a movement for community-led change to transform urban slums through services like health care and education.
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"People like Maria Ressa from the elite have no idea what it's like to live in the slums," he told me.
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Twenty-five years ago, the actor and singer Seu Jorge began a determined rise from the slums of Rio de Janeiro.
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Because few of Kathmandu's slums are connected to the water grid, they're completely dependent on outside assistance during the dry season.
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The death of Johny Gudoy Slums like Petare are where the battle for the political future of Venezuela is being fought.
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Of the 10 million more people added each year to sub-Saharan Africa's urban population, 7 million end up in slums.
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India's slums demonstrate another issue: Residents, cut off from basic services and the justice system, need something to take their place.
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Cadasta is not involved in Maharashtra's program, but has aided Odisha state in mapping its slums to provide rights to residents.
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Their mightiest rivals remain mom and pop stores that dot tens of thousands of villages, cities, towns and slums of India.
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In the most heavily targeted slums, neighbors are wary of talking to each other, unsure who among them are police informers.
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Reddy's Chal Rang De (Let's Colour It) charity has seven other slums, similarly situated on hillocks, on its wishlist, she said.
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They focus on the external environment, and thus, would take people out of the slums in hopes to improve their lives.
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However those like Zimunya and her children who live in Mutare's slums look unlikely to get much help from city hall.
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And across the country, millions of people live in proximity, in densely populated slums where access to health care is poor.
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And across the country, millions of people live in proximity, in densely populated slums where access to health care is poor.
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Ms. Devi works as a sweeper for a government project that is building low-income housing for residents of Delhi's slums.
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They devise temporary homes under tarpaulins and tin panels on sidewalks or under street overpasses, or rent cheap rooms in slums.
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Recent immigrants from Central and Latin America who populate the slums of Los Angeles today show little interest in the donut business.
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Violent crime is one of the most pervasive anxieties for Venezuelans, especially in poor slums dominated by gangs and rife with guns.
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Slums, communal means of building, and other ways of urban independence were presented as a more organic response to the metropolis's needs.
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In South Africa, a record 5.5 million young people are searching for work unsuccessfully, many living in slums far from big employers.
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Up to 37 million households - a quarter of India's urban population - live in informal housing including slums, according to social consultancy FSG.
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In Lagos slums like Makoko are run by local chiefs called "baales", who dress like mob bosses and expect tributes from residents.
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The problem with many African slums, she says, is that people rarely live in one place for more than a few years.
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I would go around Asia providing free dental services to very needy communities, from visiting prisons and slums to working with orphans.
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It had become a floating dump, poisoned by the rancid waste of a booming, unplanned metropolis and slums with no sanitary infrastructure.
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His itinerary was a tour of political failure and social injustice: slums, the heartland of exploited indigenous communities and a divided border.
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While many consider the favelas to be slums, families spend years building up their homes into decent-sized, functional, and comfortable spaces.
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Clashes between police and criminals in the city have led to prolonged firefights and multiple deaths — in slums and rich neighborhoods alike.
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He would maintain the Military Police created by Hernandez but wants to start a community police force to work in violent slums.
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The favelas, or slums, of Rio de Janeiro have had a lot of bad press in the run-up to the Olympics.
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A weak state failed to cater for hundreds of thousands of new city dwellers, driven into slums by fighting in the hills.
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Efren Peñaflorida As a teenager, Efren Peñaflorida was bullied and threatened by gangs in the slums he called home in the Philippines.
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Odinga's strongholds include his ethnic heartland in the west; the coast, where many of the nation's Muslims live; and the urban slums.
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Many people in the slums said they had little warning and had to grab what they could and move to higher ground.
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The plan to spruce up central business districts and build metro lines has triggered evictions of people from slums and informal settlements.
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So far 75 roofs have been installed in Ahmedabad's slums, but they aren't cheap, with an average cost of $772 per family.
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She was a black woman raised in the slums, a mother, [someone who identified as] bisexual, a socialist, revolutionist, an anti-capitalist.
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His reporting took him to slums where immigrants were packed into buildings with few sinks and toilets, or no plumbing at all.
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Millions of Negroes are still housed in unendurable slums; millions of Negroes are still forced to attend totally inadequate and substandard schools.
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The charity believes there are 85,000 people who are still homeless due to the quake -- and 200,000 more are living in slums.
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As a result, most live in camps that have swelled over the decades into crowded slums, where poverty and unemployment are widespread.
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That metropolis is home to some 16.3 million people and 52 percent of them live in slums, according to a recent study.
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That poignant drama, "Capernaum," follows a boy who runs away and winds up roaming the slums of Beirut shouldering a distressing responsibility.
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Political will to find a solution is weakened because of ragpickers who live in nearby slums and remove plastic from the dumps.
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The movie tells the true story of Phiona Mutesi who went from living in Uganda's slums to becoming an international chess star.
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In the nearby slums, procuring, cleansing and storing enough drinkable water is a daily struggle — and a high-risk game of chance.
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Consider Jocelyn, a woman in the slums of Manila who stars in a video promoting Coca-Cola's "#5by20" campaign for women's empowerment.
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Mass demolitions In recent years, authorities in Nigeria have embarked on mass demolitions of prime waterfront slums citing safety and security concerns.
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"Couldn't the people from the slums do some of this work?" she recalled thinking, in an interview with Wired magazine in 2015.
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At least 24 people have been killed in pockets of protests against the outcome of the vote, mainly in two Nairobi slums.
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An economic crisis dried up funding, and critics say the government did not make good on promised social advances for the slums.
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Housing and schools have been rapidly resegregating, locking too many African-Americans and Latinos into slums and their children into inferior schools.
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On the advice of my guide, I had removed my watch and wedding band before entering the slums, for fear of robbery.
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Such is the status of the nun acclaimed for her work in the slums of the Indian city now known as Kolkata.
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Public schools and clinics are crumbling, roads are potholed and hundreds of thousands of people live in slums without access to services.
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The new approach aims to tackle the ever-present threat of fires in Dhaka's crowded slums, while improving living conditions for residents.
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Women and children make up most of the displaced people now living in makeshift camps and slums on the outskirts of Aden.
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In the slums of Caracas, I visited mothers who have gone from reducing their children's portions to having them skip meals altogether.
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There were several high-profile evictions of Roma slums in France in 2015, which left scores of Roma facing an uncertain future.
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Mr Sonko's adopted name means "the boss" in Sheng, the Swahili-English creole used in Nairobi slums, and it reflects his colourful style.
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During his years as archbishop of Buenos Aires, Francis dedicated much time to working in slums that had many of the same problems.
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This matters a lot in [Brazil's slums known as] favelas, where young people's day-to-day lives are entrenched in poverty and violence.
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About 1 billion people are estimated to live in slums globally, hundreds of millions of them children, according to the U.N. children's agency.
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In 2005, floods killed more than 500 people in Mumbai, the majority in shantytown slums home to more than half the city's population.
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Solymar is leading the initiative along with other artists and Petare residents, who have so far painted nine murals in Petare's hillside slums.
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Police violence in Rio de Janeiro's slums follows a strategy that kills innocent civilians: Fight carnage with carnage, rather than lift people's lives.
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The then-newly established UNRWA set up refugee camps around the Middle East to house them — decades later many remain as urban slums.
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According to Sumila Gulyani, a World Bank researcher, slums tend to improve when their residents have an incentive and the money to invest.
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The fuel would then be sold to illegal service stations and to small-scale vendors in rural towns or city slums, police say.
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The majority of football violence is instigated by barra bravas, hooligan gangs typically from the slums who effectively set the mood during games.
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The streets of Kisumu, Kenya&aposs third-largest city and an opposition stronghold, as well as several Nairobi slums are quiet on Saturday.
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Others may live in slums without kitchens and buy all their food on the street or in cheap restaurants and cafes, he adds.
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It came a day after their visit to charities that help vulnerable and underprivileged youth, many of whom live in the city's slums.
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It follows Josué Valdés as he goes from being an orphan in the slums of Rubble City, Cuba to an accomplished galactic explorer.
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The police were unable to cope with violent new residents who arrived in the slums: street gangs like MS-13 and Barrio 18.
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In India, for instance, the government announced late last year that it would spend $150 million on lighting in the slums in Kolkata.
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The event drew criticism from some Kenyan media, however, due to the hefty price tag in a country where millions live in slums.
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"In the slums of Nairobi, the favelas of Rio de Janeiro, we have individuals and organizations that [are] doing amazing work," says Andrés.
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However some academics and slum residents question these promised benefits, saying they have not materialized in slums where residents have won formal ownership.
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But in its efforts to make that happen, authorities in recent months have demolished swathes of waterfront slums, leaving thousands of people homeless.
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As Medellin, Colombia's second largest city, expanded rapidly a decade ago, slums sprung up in the hills above the city, said Agbor-Tabi.
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Shot in squalid slums and deserted godowns, Jay Oza's camera twists and turns through narrow alleys, ably capturing the horror unfolding on screen.
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Many protesters were peaceful, singing as they marched through downtown Nairobi, the capital, but others in its slums burned tires and barricaded roads.
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Refugees in Hong Kong live in appalling conditions in slums next to landfills, on pig farms or in stuffy barracks in the city.
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More than 7,000 people have died at the hands of police or masked vigilantes who roam the back alleys of Manila's massive slums.
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Built for families living in the slums south of the Navy Yard, most of its units went instead to servicemen and defense workers.
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" The ICRC team said the signs of poverty are widespread, with people in slums "surviving on bread crumbs they find in the garbage.
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Clothing has gotten cheaper over the past few decades, and this documentary contrasts runways and slums to capture resulting environmental and human costs.
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There is an undercurrent of unrest in the city, most prominently when Kaz visits "the walled city," or the slums of Neo Yokio.
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You head down to Lei Elgona—the city's "slums"—to chase a group of thieves who had stolen something important from your crew.
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Ms. Jenkins, whose previous features include "The Savages" and "Slums of Beverly Hills," patiently assembles a structure suited either to melodrama or farce.
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India is very concerned about her image globally right now — it's the reason a wall was built to hide slums before Trump's visit.
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According to France's Inter-ministerial Delegation for Accommodation and Access to Housing, the police dismantled 111 Roma slums in 2015, evicting 11,128 people.
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"Recently we had to close a branch in Waithaka slums since the one volunteer posted there could no longer continue," Ms. Syovata said.
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Meanwhile, the people who banked on them as newlyweds and had prepared no backup retirement plan now live in what are basically slums.
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I feel like when I was in school, I was very much obsessed with like She's Gotta Have It, Slums of Beverly Hills.
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While cities often tolerate these illegal settlements — their residents help drive the economy — there is always a chance that slums can be cleared.
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Increased migration from rural to urban areas and a rise in people living in slums will put pressure on an already difficult situation.
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She trundled through strange neighborhoods, smoking crack and seeing stars amid the slums of Boynton Beach, and we all wondered where she was.
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Most Nairobians live in slums where they must contend with high crime, irregular power and water supplies, and no toilets in their homes.
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The nightmare scenario is an outbreak in Kinshasa, a crowded city where millions live in unsanitary slums not connected to a sewer system.
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Favela Cloud Imagines the Slums of Rio as Futuristic Architecture Strawscraper: The Future of Sustainable Architecture May Be a Skyscraper Covered in Straws
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He began spending time in Rio's hillside slums, or favelas, home to a population of working poor that the government wanted to expel.
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In rural communities and urban slums, authorities and volunteers used phone text messages, radio and megaphones to urge families to flee to shelters.
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The mosquito lays its eggs in containers of water, of a sort that are especially common in the huge slums of Latin American cities.
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Don't worry about it; just sell one of your rental properties in the slums of Monaco, and you'll be able to afford a Greubel.
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The contrast between rich and poor is stark, and about 60 percent of the city's population of more than 18 million lives in slums.
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Kenyan high school teachers tell CNN that -- in addition to the kids from Kenya's slums -- the terror groups are also targeting well-educated youngsters.
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Many of these killings are concentrated in police operations, supposedly aimed at drug traffickers, in the largest of the slums that Rio calls favelas.
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Poor countries, where millions live in slums without proper sanitation, need more pipes in the first place, not to mention reservoirs and purification works.
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For inspiration, Mr. Aravena drew on favelas and slums, building small housing units that can be easily expanded, while working closely with local residents.
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"Overcrowding, lack of public services in new settlements, the persistence of slums, all create a climate of insecurity, numerous Algerians confirm," the report said.
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The same square footage that houses four people in the wealthy part of town would be what 40 people call home in Manila's slums.
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From Kolkata's slums to the banks of the Ganges, millions of Indians are using social media and streaming videos for the very first time.
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But Manuel Demougeot - director of the French government department that deals with illegal settlements and slums - says his department's policies are not to blame.
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A number of migrant workers, who are predominantly Southeast Asian and live in slums, reportedly earn as little as AED 700 (£127) a month.
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In December, a socialist collective in one of Caracas' emblematic hilltop slums launched its own currency, the panal, to try to overcome cash shortages.
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Smith reports that in Kibera, one of Nairobi's largest slums, a back-up of discarded flip flops once blocked the area's clean water supply.
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The government estimates more than 2.2 million people live in slums and informal settlements, although land rights groups say the number is far higher.
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The migrants themselves often end up in slums and informal settlements, with a quality of life not much superior to that on the farm.
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Unlike Paris' banlieues or the slums of a city like Chicago, Molenbeek doesn't sit in isolation on the far outskirts of the Belgian capital.
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Iran's armed groups are made up of men like Mustafa al-Freidawi, recruited from the proud and pious poor of the Middle East's slums.
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His rejection of results triggered demonstrations and a deadly crackdown by police in his strongholds, including Nairobi slums and the western city of Kisumu.
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We've seen these two worlds make surreal contact already, with stray bullets from gunfights in drug-ridden slums flying into the Olympic equestrian center.
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The city is formed of ringed walls, with royalty in the middle and the poor in outer slums that the king has never visited.
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HAD you visited the squatter slums of Kai Tak in Kowloon, Hong Kong, in the 1950s, a curious sight might have met your eyes.
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Human trafficking is particularly rife in poverty-stricken slums, said Kissmart Bakra, a musician from Mathare and an anti-trafficking ambassador for HAART Kenya.
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We corroborated our findings with months of reporting in slums and hostile police stations, often working as a team to watch each other's back.
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Yet even the slums in big eastern cities such as Gaziantep and Diyarbakir have proper sanitation, tidy paved streets, parks and well-maintained schools.
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Before you read on, though, I wanted to convey that, particularly in Nairobi's slums, there's nothing abstract about the threat from election-related violence.
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"The government needs to throw out that commission," said Paul Shida, a welder in the Kibera slums in Nairobi, where the protests began Monday.
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About 8.5 million people live in Mexico City, and the rest inhabit an endless sprawl that encompasses everything from gated communities to concrete slums.
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Sala has lived in the slums of Havana all his life, and said he knows enough of Trump to know he doesn't like him.
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Boogie went to Jamaica once to visit a friend of his wife and was mesmerized by the island, especially with Kingston and its slums.
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To make cities safer, the United Nations calls for meeting targets including promoting affordable housing and disaster resilience, improving slums and reducing environmental impacts.
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These hypercities are underdeveloped and overcrowded, contributing to what Mike Davis termed a "planet of slums" in his 2006 book of the same name.
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As residents build up concrete block walls and cement floors, the camps have taken on an air of permanence and transformed into sprawling slums.
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In 210, an Indian government report estimated that 29.8% of the country's urban population live in low quality, semi-permanent structures, known as slums.
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It's even scarier in the Philippines, where the police and death squads stalk the slums in search of meth smokers and low-level dealers.
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"We don't want people to think slums are dangerous and full of lazy people," said Hitesh Vaidya, a guide for Reality Tours and Travel.
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"Malabaristas do Sinal Vermelho" ("Red-Light Jugglers") speaks of children who descend from the hillside slums and accost drivers stopped at a red light.
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In 1991, Jean-Bertrand Aristide—a charismatic priest from the slums with socialist leanings—became President, and his administration was twice interrupted by coups.
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Amnesty International said the demolitions left 30,000 residents homeless, highlighting the difficulties faced by poor people living in slums as African cities expand rapidly.
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He grew up in the slums of Uganda, raised by a single mother, but turned to music as a way out of grinding poverty.
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Cleaning up the slums has been another priority for the city government, which has purchased new trucks to enable daily rubbish collection, Murimi noted.
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More than 75 women from the slums near the airport, for example, were enlisted to make a giant, colorful Godhadi quilt, Mr. Reddy said.
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Kioko and Otieno inspire each other and both hope to return to the slums as professional dancers to give other kids the same opportunities.
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One minute you're towering over the rainforest; the next you're walking through the urban slums of Gawair, and suddenly you're underwater in the Pacific Ocean.
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For 12 years the Quantico star has worked with UNICEF as a global Goodwill Ambassador, visiting places in need like Zimbabwe and India's Mumbai slums.
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The Cemetery of the East, perched on terraces overlooking Caracas&apos high-rises and slums, has long been an oasis from Venezuela&aposs noisy capital.
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Around 820,000 people live in slums in the city and cannot afford access to private tankers, the 20503 report said citing the 2011 census data.
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Kapadia designs for him a fittingly literary binary: the idea that there was "Diego," the boy from the slums, and then "Maradona," the unstoppable superstar.
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As the city's population has exploded—from a third of a million at independence in 1963 to over 4m now—so too have the slums.
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What distinguishes his writing from others' is his presence in the slums, factories and homes where Egyptians first began questioning their relations with their rulers.
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He will visit slums and the violence-wracked state of Michoacán, where he will most likely expand his critique of poverty, corruption and drug cartels.
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They have resisted attempts by city officials to classify their settlements as slums, so they can be redeveloped with some land taken for commercial developments.
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The country has almost eradicated open defecation through community-led sanitation programmes and by investing heavily in shared latrines, particularly in its fast-growing slums.
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The platform has helped about 700 victims of sexual and domestic violence, largely in the country's sprawling city slums, since launching almost two years ago.
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Instead, they have mainly witnessed vicious skirmishes in slums that leave addicts and petty pushers dead at the hands of the police or murderers unknown.
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A champion of the poor and the suffering, Francis has visited slums all over the world and washed the feet of homeless men and women.
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Some time in the past Ali obviously rejected any pressure to be a woman: she slums around in baggy clothes and sniggers impolitely through lectures.
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More than 52,000 families have been relocated to sites on the outskirts of Chennai as slums were flattened to make way for roads and flyovers.
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Yet the state has only declared slums twice: about 1,200 at the time the Board was set up in 1971, and 17 more in 1985.
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According to civic group Transparent Chennai, it would take less than 3 percent of the city's land to house all the slums within city limits.
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Aid money should go to essential infrastructure for growing shanty towns and slums on the periphery of growing cities in the developing world, said Aerni.
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But nearly half of the city's population lives in slums without basic services and facilities like drinking water, garbage disposal or a proper drainage system.
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They have salved wounds in the slums of India, prayed with prisoners in Brazil, built schools in Cameroon and provided aid to a shaken Haiti.
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Students come from slums or other challenging circumstances, such as orphanages, correctional homes and even a camp for those who've had to flee Boko Haram.
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"It had been open season on young men in the slums for a long time," said John Githongo, one of Kenya's best-known anticorruption crusaders.
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What should offend Bangladeshis is the everyday sexual harassment on streets, buses, and public spaces; in workplaces and marketplaces; in slums and in corporate offices.
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On Monday, opposition supporters rampaged through several Kinshasa slums burning cars, looting banks and attacking police officers and the offices of Mr. Kabila's political party.
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But India's big cities are overcrowded with residents, many of whom are stuffed into slums, low-income dwellings, single- and multiple-family homes, and skyscrapers.
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Most had lost their jobs in the cities due to the lockdown, and the slums have the potential to feed the spread of the virus.
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Many of these slums lack a clean and steady water supply, so people keep buckets filled with water around their homes — ideal mosquito breeding grounds.
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This incredibly stylish look at the slums of Rio de Janeiro charts the lives of two boys as they grow up among guns and drugs.
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Lila and Elena grew up in the slums of Naples, in a clinch so ardent and dangerous that to call it friendship feels hideously inadequate.
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In Bangladesh, millions — fishers, farmers, and their families — live in informal settlements or slums alongside the rivers and depend on the waters for their livelihoods.
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A study from Delhi, India, one of the world's most economically polarized cities, found that its slums served as citywide accelerants for an influenza outbreak.
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But even more so is this: In some places, such as the slums of Nairobi, Kenya, each year one in four female adolescents are raped.
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Jarbas Barbosa, assistant director of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), urged governments to pay "special attention" to slums and ensure access to basic healthcare.
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Money pulls soccer talent from the developing world's farms and slums and sends it across the developed world, creating unlikely national heroes in the process.
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Over the years, thousands of women — no one really knows how many — were forced from their homes and into slums in surrounding towns and cities.
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The army has already been employed in Rio in recent years in an effort to quell violence, mainly centered on slums in Rio's metropolitan area.
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Only 2 million of them can expect to move out to a better environment, according to figures quoted in a 2016 U.N. report on slums.
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Long before he made "The Two Popes" for Netflix, director Fernando Meirelles told the epic story of life in the slums of Rio de Janeiro.
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With high levels of violent crime in Brazil's slums, some of which are controlled by drug trafficking gangs, stray bullets are a concern for residents.
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As a result, the rich live in gated enclaves protected by private security forces, surrounded by slums: The dominant architectural form is the gated community.
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A quarter of India's urban population lives in informal housing, including slums, due to the dire shortage of affordable housing, according to social consultancy FSG.
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Born in New York but raised in the slums of Limerick, Ireland, McCourt lived a childhood of near constant hunger, disease and unimaginably abject poverty.
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From the poorest slums, to the wealthiest neighborhoods, the shortage of water cuts across Venezuelan society as families endure the country's deepest ever economic crisis.
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But just because these guys didn't come from the slums, I didn't want it to come across like they're playboys or their life is easy.
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Protests and clashes are expected to continue and residents of Nairobi's slums are once again finding themselves on the wrong side of the nation's young democracy.
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Despite crackdowns, evictions and re-housing programs, an estimated 113 million people across Latin America - or nearly one in five in the region - live in slums.
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The term has been used by police to describe a coordinated drive in crime-prone districts, usually slums or low-income neighborhoods, often with additional officers.
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Many from rural areas fled the conflict to cities where they settled in poorly planned slums, then stayed after the fighting ended in 1992, he added.
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The Odisha program aims to give titles to 2000,0003 households in urban slums and those on the outskirts of cities by the end of the year.
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Meanwhile tens of thousands of Kanpur's poorest live in slums drawing groundwater laced with chromium, which is known to cause cancer, liver failure and early dementia.
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During heavy rainfall, slums often flood because of non-existent and or blocked drains, leaving puddles of stagnant water outside people's homes where mosquitoes can breed.
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In their strongholds, principally in western Kenya and certain Nairobi slums, they could prevent the electoral commission from holding a vote that would satisfy the courts.
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In Nairobi's slums, where people of dozens of different tribes live side by side in crude tenements and tin shacks, anger could overflow into ethnic violence.
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Mr. Chávez, who died of cancer in 2013, turned petroleum dollars into concrete, setting off an experiment of moving Venezuela's poor from slums into high-rises.
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Urbanization is increasing with villagers flooding daily to South Africa's second biggest city to find jobs and better lives, increasing pressure for housing and expanding slums.
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The school was set up by the remarkable Bina Sheth Lashkari, whose charity works in 70 other slums, and even on construction sites, in two cities.
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Health experts say a major challenge for the government is to reduce stunting especially in ever-expanding slums, where it is worse than in other areas.
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With the the UN estimating that roughly 2100 billion people live in slums or sub-standard housing globally, the issue extends far beyond the eastern Cape.
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Fischer, born in the Philadelphia slums, became a foreign correspondent in Moscow, where, eager to have access to power, he didn't challenge government versions of events.
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Rio's state government implemented a program in 2008 to "pacify" slums by pushing the gangs out of areas mostly located near richer neighborhoods or Olympic venues.
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As my parents did before me teaching in slums, I was also trying to inform and educate young Brazilian people, but in a more entertaining way.
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Most of the trouble has been in the western city of Kisumu, an Odinga stronghold, and the large, ethnically mixed slums on the outskirts of Nairobi.
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The group, Bhumi, is an independent youth based volunteer non-profit organization in India whose mission is to educate and mentor children from orphanages and slums.
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But for those who live in the slums of the sprawling metropolis of roughly 12 million people, there are few public spaces for sports or recreation.
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Beginning in the decades before World War II and gaining widespread acceptance afterward, the philosophy of urban renewal sought to cleanse American cities of their slums.
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Last year, one Indian state said it would give property rights to people in slums, in an "historic" step toward improving living conditions for the poor.
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Many come from slums or other challenging circumstances, such as orphanages, correctional homes and even a camp for those who've had to flee Boko Haram militants.
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Yet it's estimated that as many as two-thirds of the city's 21 million residents live in slums that lack reliable electricity, clean water and sanitation.
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Rio is no stranger to intense rainstorms that drench the tropical city's steep topography and occasionally provoke deadly landslides, predominantly in the low-income hillside slums.
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Mumbai is especially problematic because of its overcrowded slums, with almost a third of TB patients in some neighborhoods having a resistant form of the disease.
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But the government has unveiled a plan to provide housing for all by 2022 that will create 20 million new housing units and rehabilitate existing slums.
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"And it's an indictment of America's black community that has turned America's major cities into slums because of laziness, drug use and sexual promiscuity," Johnson added.
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About a quarter of the urban population lives in informal housing, including slums because of a critical shortage of affordable housing, according to social consultancy FSG.
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Many of the city's slums, called comunas, are still controlled by gangs, but security has improved; last year, there were five hundred and seventy-seven murders.
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Even in Blantyre, there are areas such as Ndirande, one of the largest slums in southern Africa, where people drink unsafe water out of shallow wells.
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A growing number of unvaccinated children live in city slums, where immunization coverage is limited, said Robin Nandy, principal adviser and chief of immunization at UNICEF.
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Srougi and his team opened their first clinic in 2011 in a São Paulo favela, the irregular slums that spread like an archipelago through Brazil's cities.
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Today, you can find pool halls in Manila's restaurants, its schools, and even its slums, where some streets are ankle-deep in excrement and industrial slime.
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Yet, to the vexation of those Brazilians eager for their culture to be known for something other than samba, soccer, and slums, Machado's popularity didn't spread.
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Lee Jaewon, a not-quite-orphan from the slums of Neo Seoul, has scammed his way into a prestigious high school, hoping for an easier life.
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And with projects now filled with the politically powerless, and with revenue from rent payments falling, government slashed maintenance budgets and turned high rises into slums.
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Cities cleared old neighborhoods and replaced them with giant housing projects in vast empty spaces, arguing that crowded urban slums had become petri dishes for disease.
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According to the Iranian Parliament data, the number of Iranians living in slums has increased 21979 times since the revolution in 22009 to almost 10 million.
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Informal slums Despite its status as the fifth largest economy in Africa, the wealth in Lagos remains stubbornly concentrated in the hands of a very few.
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The Kim family lives in dire straits in the slums of Korea, folding pizza boxes for pennies and losing profits when their boxes fail quality control.
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The New People's Army was firmly entrenched in the slums, where it drew support from a population fed up with corrupt police and an abusive military.
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Others have fled the urban slums, where most of the killings occur, and are camping out on farms or lying low in villages in the countryside.
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Methamphetamine, known as shabu , is widely abused, especially in the slums, where pedicab drivers and day laborers use the drug in order to work longer hours.
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Nairobi's public schools and clinics are crumbling, roads are potholed and hundreds of thousands of people live in slums without access to electricity, sewage or services.
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The drug offered the country's teeming poor an instant tonic against hunger, an illusion of strength during hard labor and a mental escape from hopeless slums.
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We travel from the monkey bars in the yard of an expensive private school to the dire playgrounds of displaced children living in the city's slums.
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But the rule of law in the form of government has already largely slipped away in the slums, which have become no-go areas for police.
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In Mumbai, nearly 60 percent of the 18 million population lives in slums and other informal homes, many lacking amenities such as running water and toilets.
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Still, in Manila's slums, where most of the drug war killings have taken place, many now fear that the smallest infraction might cost them their lives.
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They're seen in Caracas on the backs of motorcycles in order to penetrate hillside slums, where they arrive heavily armed with assault rifles and body armor.
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Roma advocacy groups have criticized the forced eviction, saying police operations are not the appropriate solution to the issue of Roma slums in and around Paris.
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This support will enable us to expand our reach into more urban slums in Mumbai, empowering local women through access to menstrual hygiene products and employment opportunities.
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Drug traffickers have again taken over slums that community police had pacified ahead of the 2014 World Cup, and shootings have become more common, blogger Michaels said.
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They jeered at the peer educators stomping through Sonagachi—India's largest red light district, tucked away in the city's northern slums—trying to advocate for HIV prevention.
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Experts say the failure to re-house inhabitants evicted from homes in public settlements that have been demolished partly accounts for the boom in privately-owned slums.
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AT THE TURN of the 0003th century, the most malodorous environmental challenge facing the world's big cities was not slums, sewage or soot; it was horse dung.
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But the economic crisis dried up funding to expand the program, and critics say the government did not make good on promised social advances for the slums.
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He's plucked from the slums when he's discovered to be the missing son of a corrupt prince, and he's pulled into the world of the royal court.
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Rubbish in the slums and markets is collected informally on tricycle carts known as "Borla taxis" since the paths are too small for city trucks to navigate.
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In the slums, getting to the Offshore is outright religious: the father of one applicant, Fernando, is a preacher who extols the Process as a spiritual journey.
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The startup has established nine virtual clinics in impoverished communities, six of which are based in the slums of Karachi where millions live below the poverty line.
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Nearly every family has received a title, or patta, under an ambitious program to give land rights to about 22 million people living in slums across Odisha.
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Stephen Mwangi, a former resident of Mathare, one of the capital's biggest slums, said he has lost many friends and a brother-in-law to police bullets.
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Its boycott of Sunday's election - which it says is a sham - means it has even less impact in the disaffected hilltop slums that ring Caracas' lush valley.
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Its many slums and informal settlements are built high on mountain slopes, leaving tens of thousands of inhabitants vulnerable to death and displacement when the rains come.
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In eastern Odisha state, authorities have promised land titles to 200,000 households in urban slums and those on city outskirts, as well as loans to build homes.
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"In Kenya, the largest number of un-immunized children are in the slums of Nairobi, not the hinterlands," says Seth Berkley, CEO of Gavi, which vaccinates children.
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It explores how to help three groups in that category: families living in urban slums, smallholder farmers in rural areas, and people uprooted by conflicts and disasters.
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When some Jakarta slums were razed in March and April, the FPI encouraged those evicted to form small "pop-up" groups to demonstrate against clearances, Bamukmin said.
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Nyong'o plays Nakku Harriet, the mother of Phiona Mutesi (newcomer Madina Nalwanga), a young woman from the slums of Uganda who became the nation's foremost chess prodigy.
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Odinga, though nearly as wealthy as Kenyatta, appeals chiefly to the poor in Nairobi's slums, as well as the Luo ethnic group and others who feel marginalized.
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The presiding spirit of the banlieues is Paul Delouvrier, an administrator ordered by Charles de Gaulle to sort the "shambles" of the outer city and its slums.
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His parents migrated to Mumbai and raised Mr Khan in the slums of Kamathipura, the red-light capital of the "Maximum City", amid drug addicts and prostitutes.
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When it comes to her proudest moments on a personal level, Gates recalled a time she met a woman called Marianne in the slums of Nairobi, Kenya.
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Mr. Molyneux, the deputy council chief, said the area had changed markedly for the better since 1975, with large areas of slums and derelict factories cleared away.
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But in poorer parts of the world, urban experts say efforts to improve cities with cutting-edge technology can run into challenges, particularly when applied in slums.
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The financial hub of Mumbai, where more than half the population lives in slums and informal settlements, has nearly half a million vacant homes, survey data showed.
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The government also prepared an aid response with the military and the police that included work to ensure that trucks with emergency supplies could reach riverside slums.
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With nearly one in five Kenyan youth unemployed, according to the World Bank, car jacking, burglary, and robbery with violence are common across Nairobi and its slums.
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The Caracas municipality of Sucre, which encompasses Petare, one of the region's largest and poorest slums, has seen an "exponential" increase in parents needing help, say officials.
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The virus kills 3 percent to 8 percent of those infected, and if it reaches the slums of Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo, fatalities could skyrocket.
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The series carries us through 50 years, as the women rescue and betray each other, struggle to escape the slums and their mothers, and become mothers themselves.
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But shortly after Odinga's visits, impromptu demonstrations formed again and a heavy police presence moved in to both slums overnight in an effort to prevent further violence.
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Atget's images of slums, prostitutes, or trash served to critique the modernization of Europe, embodied in such forms as modernist architecture, which failed to effect real change.
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Although cholera infections have fallen this year, many cases persist in the slums of Al Hudaydah, where internally displaced people live in rough shelters with poor sanitation.
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In the Brazilian news media, Dr. Figueiredo has been quoted saying Oropouche can also be spread by Aedes aegypti mosquitoes, which infest the country's vast urban slums.
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"There are always problems between the slum lords (who account for around one in five people living across Freetown's slums) and tenants," 36-year-old Sesay said.
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Many of Sadr's supporters hail from eastern Baghdad slums and share the same grievances as many Iraqis over a lack of job opportunities, poor healthcare and education.
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Population density is far lower than in the slums of Brazil or Mexico, where a mosquito can find many victims living almost on top of one another.
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Their city was ill-equipped to help the many desperately poor and ill; housing was scarce and shoddy, creating disease-ridden slums more crowded than modern Mumbai.
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That's a problem at a time when the world's cities are mushrooming, particularly in poorer countries with slums that lack a reliable water supply and decent housing.
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Sanergy harvests waste from toilets it operates in a franchise network in Nairobi's sprawling slums and feeds it to fly larvae, which become high-quality animal feed.
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Ahmedabad's mayor, Bijal Patel, told the AP that the project was part of a "beautification" initiative and disputed allegations that the purpose was to hide the slums.
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Boniface Mwangi, a prominent anti-corruption activist, said he had accompanied Collymore when he defied company security to walk around the slums to meet Safaricom's poorest users.
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It sated desperate hunger pangs, offered relief from the perpetual cold, and was a blessed escape from the brutal drudgery of life in the slums and workhouses.
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A quarter of the city's population lives in the slums ringing the city, jammed together in small concrete boxes with tin roofs that turn them into solar ovens.
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More than 70 officers used helicopters, armored vehicles and dogs to enter the slums, but there was no word if any suspects had been captured in the operation.
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They plan to build about 100 homes for people in slums in the Central American nation within 18 months, while reducing building costs to about $4,000 from $10,000.
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"I think kids now see there is an opportunity other than football or soccer, another way to get out of the favelas," Larkin said of Brazil's urban slums.
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Odinga himself upped the stakes on Friday, accusing the Ministry of Interior and National Police Service of "systematically profiling" counties and slums well-understood to be NASA strongholds.
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"They're basically going to export poor people from rural areas to urban slums - and that's a failure of policy," he told the Thomson Reuters Foundation in an interview.
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A female director, Nadine Labaki from Lebanon, won the Jury Prize - effectively the bronze medal - for "Capharnaum", a realist drama about childhood neglect in the slums of Beirut.
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After word of the gold and silver rushes reached city slums, the most adventurous headed westward, settling in places like Butte, Montana, San Francisco, California, and Leadville, Colorado.
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Pin is a first-rate heroine, aware of the vulnerability of her sex to the chaos and dangers of both the amusement park as well as Chicago's slums.
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Yet it was over a decade before Jenkins, who made her debut with the wry Slums of Beverly Hills (1998), could get a new project funded and finished.
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Many will end up in overcrowded slums that lack even basic facilities, with no claim on the land or property, and in fear of being evicted every day.
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Officials have made detailed maps of the slums after drone surveys and door-to-door interviews to fix property boundaries and ensure that no private lands are encroached.
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Nearly one billion poor people live in urban slums and informal settlements in about 100,000 cities, in dire need of clean water, energy, food, sanitation and health services.
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Their journey takes them to Icelandic volcanoes, Indian slums and French farmlands, among other places, to tell the stories of ordinary people fighting the effects of climate change.
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Activists say the government's focus on creating Smart Cities with internet connectivity, uninterrupted power and efficient public transport will hurt poorer residents including those in slums and chawls.
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The idea that formal ownership for ramshackle homes in slums can improve the economy by unlocking assets was pioneered by the Peruvian economist and author, Hernando de Soto.
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Isabel Medem, who was born of a Peruvian mother, decided to address one of the underlying issues that people living in the slums of Lima are facing: sanitation.
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And as a former methampetamine user himself, he worries that he may be next on the hit lists of drug users composed by local mayors in the slums.
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"The Final Jeopardy question was as follows: "In the title of a groundbreaking 1890 exposé of poverty in New York City slums, these three words follow 'How the.
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CARACAS (Reuters) - Streaming down from hilltop slums in the dead of night, hundreds of Venezuelans join an ever-growing line that circles the vast "Bicentennial" state-run supermarket.
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It and other African cities at extreme risk are grappling with high poverty levels, expanding slums, weak governance and limited ability to adapt to climate shifts, researchers said.
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While social distancing is the preferred measure of fighting the disease, concern is growing for places like India's densely populated slums, where social distancing is not a possibility.
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Nearly three decades later, Mr. Sumulong traveled alone to Manila for the first time, where he documented an N.G.O.'s efforts to relieve poverty in the Baseco slums.
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The South Korean opera singer Kim Jae-chang forms and conducts a choir for children and their parents in the Indian slums of Pune in this heartwarming documentary.
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And with the death toll of President Rodrigo Duterte's drug war over 4,000, many young men in Manila are staying indoors, or fleeing urban slums for the countryside.
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"I can't accept the putting in place of facilities which will once again facilitate the creation of encampments and slums," she said in a statement late on Monday.
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Blunt and brash, he made a hard push for urban-development programs, and alienated many poor people who had to be relocated after their slums were cleared out.
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Rio has about 1,000 slums, which are home to nearly one in four of the city's population and typically lack a range of infrastructure and services, experts say.
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" On "Don't Get Captured," he talks about gentrification as social violence: "The slums in the city blown up/now the white folks showed up/everything bought sold up.
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If anything, it exacerbates the costs of this problem, with families being ejected from the legal limbo of the slums to the lawlessness of living on the street.
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Mr. Edhi, leafing through his records of the deceased, said almost all of last week's dead had come from slums where most of the city's labor force resides.
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Sam Wyndham, newly arrived from England with lingering war wounds and a morphine habit but a keen appreciation for the "vibrant, wretched beauty" of the slums of Calcutta.
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Living in stacked slums in Columbus, Ohio, Wade escapes into the game world, where he finds an assortment of allies with their own colorful (and sometimes misleading) avatars.
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As climate change gathers pace and more people crowd into city slums, "floating cities is one of the possible solutions", said UN-Habitat's executive director, Maimunah Mohd Sharif.
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Businessmen in Caracas now fear the lootings, so far concentrated in the poorer and more lawless provinces, will spread to the sprawling capital, with its teeming hillside slums.
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Maderal's nephew, Joemari Rodriguez, and other family members shared a house in North Bay Boulevard South, a district of teeming slums and trash-choked waterways in Navotas City.
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The deluge revived memories of 2005 floods that killed more than 500 people, the majority of them in shantytown slums where more than half the city's population lives.
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The same fate has befallen other slums in Lagos, according to Megan Chapman, a founder of the Justice & Empowerment Initiatives, a nonprofit that monitors land rights in Nigeria.
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MUMBAI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - A colorful paint job has transformed one of Mumbai's drab hilltop slums into a tourist destination, even prompting comparisons with Italy's picturesque Amalfi Coast.
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And Mecklenburg Street was the heart of a square mile of brothels, speakeasies and slums that took its informal name — Monto — from Montgomery Street, the next street over.
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Its soldiers would be the disaffected youths of the city's neighborhoods and hillside slums, and as they suffered through the madness, they would turn their weapons on society.
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Following tradition, people gathered to the streets on Good Friday to watch a man portraying Jesus Christ carry a cross around the slums to the sounds of samba.
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Like most rap lyrics, the song is autobiographical and draws upon elements from Divine's own life, including a difficult childhood spent growing up without his parents in Mumbai's slums.
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In contrast with high-profile past directors, dubbed "starchitects" for their showy buildings - Aravena, 48, is best known for designing low-rise social housing for families living in slums.
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About two-fifths of Kenya's 46 million people rely on unclean water sources, such as ponds, shallow wells and rivers, particularly in rural areas and slums, says charity Water.org.
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In particular, for donations to the Myna Mahila Foundation in India, which manufactures and sells affordable pads throughout the slums of Mumbai, tackling taboo and shame along the way.
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It was Purnama who ordered the evictions from Luar Batang's slums to make way for one of his many infrastructure projects aimed at modernizing this clogged and chaotic city.
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Industrial capitalists were able to lure the increasingly impoverished or unemployed landworkers to crowd into their dark satanic mills—rookeries and slums that provided barely more than starvation wages.
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A generation ago that baleful title belonged to its neighbour, Colombia, where the drugs trade and peasants driven into slums by the civil war came together to dreadful effect.
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Tens of millions of people live in the region's urban slums, often built along river banks and on precarious slopes prone to flooding and landslides triggered by heavy rains.
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On Sunday, he took a swipe at the rich and corrupt elite in a Mass near the cinder block slums of Ecatepec, one of the country's most violent cities.
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He loved us all whether you lived in the suburbs or the slums or the avenue or in the alley, whether you came from the penthouse or the projects.
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He took his youthful fights in the slums of NY, his battles with Nazi armies and forged them into a visual vocabulary that defines so many forms of drama.
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Rapid urbanization in the commercial capital Yangon is creating the kind of slums that have fueled the increase in meth abuse in countries such as Thailand and the Philippines.
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That makes it very hard to effectively include slums and poor people in plans to spread the use of clean energy or address climate change, for instance, she said.
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The Community Reinvestment Act of 1977 was reparations, beyond the Fair Housing Act of 1968, for redlining practices that denied blacks the opportunity to own homes outside of slums.
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After an outbreak of plague in 1994, the city - then considered to be among the filthiest in India - set about cleaning up its landfills and sewers, and upgrading slums.
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There have also been demolitions and evictions in slums in the cities of Indore and Bhopal in the central state of Madhya Pradesh, which were named as Smart Cities.
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Lakshmi writes about how, after coming to the U.S., she felt Americans would associate her skin color with third world slums, malaria and "the fragrant foods" of her culture.
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U.N. agencies have pushed governments to include urban poor in city planning by improving slums - some of which have existed for decades - rather than dispersing people who live there.
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Driving through the slums of Manila, her chauffeured car stops at a red light; she leans out of the window and proffers a wad of cash to a stranger.
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School textbooks still rarely mention the achievements of minority Pakistanis, while in the province of Punjab members of the Christian community occupy most of the slums in the region.
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When he was not teaching or writing his master's thesis, he visited junk shops and walked a great deal, taking photographs of the city's disused factories and cleared slums.
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For instance, it works in Nairobi's slums, where many refugees remain in hiding, ostracized for having been raped, or hiding from killers who chased them from their home countries.
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Some critics say the films favored by festivals abroad tend to cater to a widespread perception of the Philippines as a bleak, impoverished place of slums, corruption and drugs.
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The country of more than 92 million is struggling to build enough houses for the poorest in society, with many Egyptians living in sprawling slums and unlicensed apartment blocks.
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A quarter of India's urban population lives in informal housing, including slums, due to the critical shortage of affordable accommodation, according to the social consultancy firm FSG in Mumbai.
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University entrepreneurship is Suhani Jalota, a Duke undergraduate who constructed a factory in India to provide low-cost sanitary pads for women living in the vast slums of Mumbai.
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About 1.5 billion people in Asia lack basic sanitation services, for instance, while 250 million people live in slums, the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the World Bank say.
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Due to the lack of affordable housing, about 70 percent of urban dwellers, including soldiers, live in slums with inadequate access to water and sanitation, Habitat for Humanity estimates.
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The one they chose was located just past, but worlds away from, the slums of Port-au-Prince in Haiti, which contained the most intense poverty I'd ever seen.
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The city, Pakistan's economic powerhouse, is in shambles, roads crumbling, slums expanding, deprived of basic government services although it provides the country with about 40 percent of its revenue.
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SM: That scene of him visiting the slums is a major moment in Michael Mann's Ali, which I understand was a major inspiration for certain sequences in your film.
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On the other side lie the seemingly endless tracts of hillside slums, cemented and sepulchral, of Monterrey's impoverished Independencia neighborhood, a notorious battleground between the Zetas and Gulf cartels.
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Our correspondent spent time in the gritty slums outside the city, where defiant Mongolians now live in makeshift shacks and gers, the traditional homes of the once nomadic people.
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I'd already been down in the slums of Colombia and very quickly came to an understanding that the cartel is the authority there, the shadow power in these ghettos.
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There are no hospitals in the slums, and at least six women spoke of having a relative die giving birth because she had been denied admission to government hospitals.
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The new housing stock was better than in the slums, but the village lacked basic amenities, work opportunities were few and people were cut off from their community networks.
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Corrupt politicians and police officers here often work with gangsters; slums with unpaved roads and a lack of hope provide a stream of willing recruits into the cartel armies.
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Together they work with community groups, usually in the slums of developing countries, where there is often just a bald patch of dust or no public space at all.
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And yet he was unprepared for the drastic filth and chaos in California's homeless camps, which the U.N. has compared to the slums in India, Pakistan, Brazil and Mexico.
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With some 20 percent of Rio's residents living in slums and the country mired in a tough economic crisis, many Brazilians have little cash or appetite for Olympic tickets.
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Many people were killed and burned to death in slums across the East African country, often by young men venting their frustration over economic inequality and lack of opportunities.
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For instance, there are many poor people living in slums in cities after being forced to leave their homes in rural areas due to floods and river-bank erosion.
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Statistics from the United Nations' Millennium Development Goals database from 2014 show that one in four of the country's urban residents, or about 1.25 million people, live in slums.
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" The book's blurb on the French Amazon website describes him as being a long way from the petty thieves of the slums and instead one of the "criminal aristocracy.
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It took a scientist and his ecological approach to vermin management to clean up the slums, which was only a collateral effect of the effort to eliminate rat infestation.
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Artists like Mario Cattaneo depicted the contradictions of rapid industrialization in their work, often featuring the urban poor in slums just outside a city skyline racked with glossy new construction.
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I guess the album was sort of like a gift to Jigga, and a curse to the young gangsters from the slums who didn't do it right like he did.
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Tenure in privately-owned slums is no more secure than in public squatter settlements, according to Salma A. Shafi, treasurer of the Centre for Urban Studies, a thinktank in Dhaka.
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He was repelled by the slums, the open defecation (picking his fastidious way through butts and twists of human excrement), and by the failure of Indian civilisation to defend itself.
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In slums around the country Reuters spoke to many people with the disease, who all described living in cramped and insecure housing and lacking an ample supply of nutritious food.
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But for Mageni and other residents of Jangwani and nearby slums, the threat of flooding, lack of services and insecure tenancy are just part of life in Tanzania's biggest city.
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Nearly 21950 percent of Algeria's 21970 million people now live in cities along the northern coast, often in slums or in densely packed 21960s tenements rife with drugs and crime.
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Of the 4.2m tickets sold in 2014, around 700,000 were for "Pelo Malo" ("Bad Hair"), Mariana Rondón's gritty examination of attitudes towards race and sexuality in the slums of Caracas.
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About 1.5 billion people in Asia-Pacific lack basic sanitation services, for instance, while 250 million people live in slums, according to the Asian Development Bank and the World Bank.
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It was hard to picture this when I visited, passing by the tall gated homes that are shielded from the surrounding slums — a sadly typical scenario in Brazil's largest cities.
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A shortage of affordable housing has led to up to 37 million households - a quarter of the urban population - living in informal housing including slums, according to social consultancy FSG.
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It dates back to when she was four and I brought her to Haiti, to one of the most dangerous slums in the world, where she handed out Christmas gifts.
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The poor in urban slums in developing nations are particularly at risk, they said, while solutions to cool homes and bodies that do not hike climate-changing emissions remain elusive.
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As Orwell was researching "The Road to Wigan Pier" on the same theme, Tudor-Hart also worked in slums around the country to record the conditions of the poorest (above).
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A quarter of the world's urban population lives in slums where they are particularly vulnerable to disasters and lack rights due to lack of land titles, the United Nations says.
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More than 60 percent of Rio's homeless were born in Rio State where most of them hail from slums were residents live precarious lives without formal property rights, Sabino said.
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No surprise, then, that it's rare to read an article or see a news report about the millions of Pakistanis who live in slums or are struggling for land rights.
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The sanitation program in Orangi Town has prompted communities in 40 other slums in Sindh and Punjab provinces to install sewerage lines with technical help from the OPP, he said.
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Women also face the threat of sexual assaults on public transport and streets far more than men do, especially those who live in fringe slums and may face long commutes.
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The term has been used by Philippines police to describe a coordinated anti-crime drive in crime-prone districts, usually slums or low-income neighbourhoods, often with additional police deployed.
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"Residents of the slums believed their lives could change with the improvements from the PAC Program," Ruth Jurberg, a senior official from Rio's state government told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.
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That leaves low income workers stranded in unsafe buildings, and in slums and chawls - low-rise blocks with one-room homes - built more than a century ago to house workers.
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Shortly before J.F.K. was killed, he told aides that he wanted to wage a battle against the slums, the hunger, and the inadequate medical care that he had read about.
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"They should cooperate so we can solve real problems together," said Kriszti Kovacs, an activist with Bagazs, a group that works on the integration of Roma slums into mainstream society.
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She saw rampant infant mortality; the infant mortality rate was close to 40 percent in the slums of New York, and she considered this an affront to decency and civilization.
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About 40 percent of Salgueiro is enrolled in the program, which could mitigate a spike in poverty and discourage migration to the slums of São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro.
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The need for an effective, affordable vaccine has risen urgently as urban slums grow, hotter weather spreads the disease to new regions and the bacteria develop resistance to more antibiotics.
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For several years, he followed them, on foot and by train, from their villages to makeshift slums outside Paris, where their odysseys ended in renewed hardship in a foreign land.
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As the heat of the day dies away, boys and young men play basketball on improvised courts, or a version of billiards that's popular in the slums of the Philippines.
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In Parasite, the Kim family (who live in the slums of Seoul) finds themselves on the up-and-up after infiltrating the home of the rich Parks under false pretenses.
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Poverty and a lack of housing forced many to live in slums in a city where the number of inhabitants is set to double to nearly two million by 2030.
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Kenya's government intends to construct 200,000 social homes to improve living conditions for the poor in slums, and 800,000 affordable houses for better-off families over the next five years.
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Residents of Karachi's slums — by some estimates 61 percent of the population lives in the haphazard concrete sprawl along the city's perimeter — face other challenges in dealing with the heat.
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Densely-packed city slums where thousands of people live in close proximity to one another in often sub-standard conditions could make it difficult to control a virulent viral outbreak.
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The victims included 46 children, mostly locals forced into sex work in hostels and slums, and 180 Ghanaian men who were promised jobs online and then enslaved for forced labor.
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High-rise cities like Seoul and Tokyo are less densely populated than Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh, where most people live in walk-up apartment buildings or low-rise slums.
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Mom and pop stores and other neighborhood outlets that dot tens of thousands of cities, towns, villages and slums across the country drive most of the sales in the nation.
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Critics argue the price of property in satellite cities is out of reach for the many residents of African cities, with an estimated 60% of the population living in slums.
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Some of the plays at the Tamanaco tell of Venezuelans' grim realities, such as kidnappings at gun-point and hunger in the slums, while comedies poke fun at everyday nuisances.
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"When you look at slums, you think they are shabby and dirty, and that also becomes a reflection of the people who live there," Reddy told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.
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Often dubbed the world's first "billion-dollar home", rising amid the notorious slums of India's finance center, it belongs to industrial tycoon Mukesh Ambani, now crowned the continent's richest man.
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In developing countries like Kenya, where the World Bank says nearly two-thirds of urbanites live in slums, feeding waste to fly larvae could solve both sanitation and nutrition problems.
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The attack highlights Maduro's challenges in maintaining control over the OPEC nation, where widespread food and medicine shortages have fueled outrage and despair everywhere from hillside slums to military barracks.
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According to the report, 56 percent of Africa's urban population live in slums – rising as high as 90 percent in some countries like Ghana - while in India, it is 24 percent.
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Routinely described as one of the largest slums in the world and the setting for Slumdog Millionaire, Mumbai's Dharavi has been home to some unlikely innovations in the last two years.
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"Our main mission is to challenge our perception of slums, favelas, ghettos and other informal settlements around the world, and to acknowledge the citizenship and creativity of these people," he said.
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There are solutions, and similarly to Tree, the project puts a special emphasis on education through a collaboration with the Maria Christina Foundation, that financially supports children in the Dhaka slums.
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From slums, villages, towns and cities, millions of people will make their way to polling stations, in a seven-phase election that takes place over four weeks in Uttar Pradesh, India.
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LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Award-winning Chilean architect Alejandro Aravena wants city governments worldwide to stop fighting urban migration and look to Latin America's sprawling slums as inspiration for new housing.
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Shabu's backPhilippine President Rodrigo Duterte's war on drugs had driven the trade in crystal methamphetamine underground – until three weeks ago, that is, according to residents and drug users in Manila's slums.
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But he was the first to have grown up in slums, the backcourts of Anderston in north Glasgow, with a father either raising hell from drink or not there at all.
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The idea is imported from the slums of the developing world, where cheap private schools have emerged in response to the failure or absence of the state, often with excellent results.
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The establishments also open the rich culture of the city's slums for travelers, giving them a glimpse into one-time "no-go" areas where about one-fifth of Rio's population lives.
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"In both Norway and Sweden, whose economies are literally dwarfed by the size of our affluence and the extent of our technology, they have no unemployment and no slums," King said.
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An estimated 65 million people, or 1003 million households, are housed in urban slums, according to the 2011 Indian census which estimated an additional 1.8 million people in India were homeless.
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ET: Recording artist Pitbull talks to Harvey Levin about growing up in the drug-infested slums of Miami and figuring out the formula that allowed him to become an international sensation.
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There are hundreds of such communities in Bangkok and they cannot all be dismantled, said Thipparat Noppaladarom, advisor to the Community Organizations Development Institute (CODI), a government agency that upgrades slums.
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Such comments seem certain to fuel fears of a major confrontation with security forces, already blamed for killing nearly 50 people in Kisumu and Nairobi slums after the canceled August vote.
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Contrary to perceptions that slums are run by petty criminals who resist efforts to redevelop or upgrade, women leaders in Jadibanagar and Savda Ghevra are actively engaged in bettering everyone's lives.
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London, Paris and New York all sprawled in the 19th and early 20th centuries while their inner-city slums hollowed out, as though giant hammers were beating the cities from above.
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Many politicians, like Gandhi, think they should stay there, either for romantic reasons (the countryside is so beautiful!) or because they do not want peasants building unsightly slums in their cities.
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Jose Castillo, an urban planner and architect in Mexico City, says that Ciudad Neza, home to 1.2 million people, should serve as a model for other blighted urban areas and slums.
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The deluge revived memories of 2005 floods that killed more than 500 people, the majority of them in shantytown slums where more than half of the city's 20 million people live.
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Today, an expansive web of cable cars will take you from the elevated metro line up the vertiginous mountain walls, at a safe, respectable distance from the zinc-roofed slums below.
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In Latin America, where some 80 percent of its 600 million people live in cities, a higher number than anywhere else, one key challenge is reaching women and children in slums.
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" But as Arnold Toynbee, the 19th century economist and social reformer who helped laborers in slums unionize, once said: "The supreme accomplishment is to blur the line between work and play.
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Revitalizing Rio's crime-ridden favelas or slums has proven to be a tall order as many areas were unpatrolled for decades and largely left to be governed by local crime lords.
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In recent years Mr. Meyer, a grandee of the culinary world, has devoted himself to social programs, running cooking schools in Danish prisons, Bolivian slums and, starting this fall, Brownsville, Brooklyn.
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Preparations for South America's first Olympics have been dogged by concerns over the polluted bay where sailing events will be held, and violence spilling over from heavily policed slums, or favelas.
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These heavy rainfall events are disastrous for an already flood-prone city, where nearly a third of the population lives in slums, or worse, on the sidewalks under the open sky.
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That includes neighborhoods in the region known as Khartoums southern belt that have been particularly hard hit because of the large number of slums, which are easily demolished by the floods.
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The son of Korean immigrants, Mr. Kim worked in the slums of Haiti and Peru, guided by the liberation theology of Catholic priests and the outrage of leftist intellectual Noam Chomsky.
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The U.N. will also distribute International Literacy Prizes to projects that develop literacy skills, like the Citizens Foundation, which runs more than 1,400 schools in poor slums and villages across Pakistan.
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That includes neighborhoods in the region known as Khartoum's "southern belt" that have been particularly hard hit because of the large number of slums, which are easily demolished by the floods.
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The British reporter interviewed former sicarios in Mexican prisons, rode shotgun with police through Venezuelan slums, and investigated crime lords in the favelas of Rio de Janeiro and shantytowns of Kingston.
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He once told the church's official magazine that Chicago's poor dwelled in slums because that was "the way they choose to live," according to a Washington Post story from the 250s.
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He played a leading role in nearly every chapter of Congo's messy politics, remaining a potent symbol of resistance, especially in the slums of Kinshasa, the capital, to the very end.
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Mangueira took aim at the rise in right-wing religious fervor in Brazil and a surge in police violence, in Rio's slums in particular, in Bolsonaro's first 14 months in office.
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But that strain of pan-Africanism neglects Mr. Mugabe's excesses, the killings of Ndebele people, rigging of the 2002 and 2008 elections, forcible clearance of slums, political abductions and widespread corruption.
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The battled raged on Wednesday as the Olympics torch reached Rio, a scenic, beach-side city that has long struggled with violent drug crime in the hillside slums that surround it.
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You focus on the person, and thus, take the slums out of the people and empower them to take themselves out of the slum — so they can improve their own lives.
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Today they are largely Muslim men who migrated from rural India to Mumbai, where they are paid meager sums to work up to 215.900 hours a day, many in overcrowded slums.
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E. Rajeswari, a police inspector in the area, said it was still unclear what had occurred at the apartment building, which is surrounded by slums in the Chennai neighborhood of Ayanavaram.
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Today they are largely Muslim men who migrated from rural India to Mumbai, where they are paid meager sums to work up to 17 hours a day, many in overcrowded slums.
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Meanwhile, in the field of science, Curt P. Richter, a biologist at John Hopkins, tests a newly formulated rat poison by releasing the rodents into the predominately black slums of Baltimore.
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Following a nimble production of "The Shadow of a Gunman," the Irish Repertory Theater returns to the Dublin slums with this tragicomedy, the second in a season devoted to Sean O'Casey.
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The lawsuit further points out that the city seeks to apply a state law intended to facilitate improving "slums or blighted areas," which would make tax incentives available to the developers.
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Not fully slums but not fully integrated into the city either, these favelas are home to both horrific gang violence and some of the most creative and resourceful people in Rio.
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Slums were razed and converted to bourgeois neighborhoods, and the formerly labyrinthine city became a place of order, full of wide boulevards (think Saint-Germain) and angular avenues (the Champs-Élysées).
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