At Mary Simkhovitch’s Greenwich House, well-off Americans moved in with immigrants and helped them get their start.

Jesse Jackson's death at 84 brings reflections on his enduring legacy, from inspiring youth with hope to his pivotal role in the Civil Rights Movement.

This is a look inside one of the largest informal settlements in the world, located in Pakistan. Home to hundreds of thousands — and in some estimates, millions — it functions as a city within a city, ...

Mumbai: The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has opened up 26 slum pockets across the city for redevelopment by inviting expressions of interest from developers. The 26 pockets include some ...

Kennedy Odede knows what poverty is. He grew up in Kibera, the largest slum in the Kenyan capital Nairobi. It's a place filmmakers and aid organisations visit to capture images of extreme poverty. A ...

Geneva, Switzerland - The United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) and the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat) have formalised a strategic partnership through a ...

MUMBAI: The Bombay High Court (HC) on Tuesday held that slum dwellers cannot be denied basic sanitation facilities and directed the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) to provide and maintain ...

Typically, we always look to the West (the United States, Europe, and Australia) for developments in science and technology. When we glance at other countries, our attention shifts to China, South ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

One might expect researchers to have settled the question long ago of whether poverty causes crime. On the surface, the answer seems obvious. A correlation certainly exists: anyone working in the ...

When a fire broke out in Kalyanpur, Dhaka, it was not the authorities who rushed in first. It was Saleha, a woman leader, and a group of youth volunteers who ran towards the flames. Buckets in hand, ...