India’s recent deportation drive targeting its Muslim minority was marked by home demolitions, arbitrary detentions, ...

Urban slums in Dhaka continue to reflect the stark reality of food insecurity and malnutrition faced by the city’s ...

In Bangladesh’s slums, residents often lack reliable access to safe drinking water.

More than 10,000 people have been left homeless after a massive fire engulfed a slum in Bangladesh’s capital, Dhaka, destroying thousands of shanties, according to Bangladeshi officials.

Special correspondent Steve Sapienza reports on an innovative approach for getting water to slum dwellers in Bangladesh. The report is the latest in a series on global population issues in ...

With extreme heat episodes becoming more frequent, a team of women is teaching people living in a Barishal slum how to cope ...

Unsafe drinking water in villages throughout Bangladesh claims lives, often the youngest ones. Many village slums are surrounded by water, but not a drop is clean enough to drink without risk of ...

DHAKA, March 11 (Reuters) - A massive fire ripped through a slum on Wednesday in Bangladesh's capital of Dhaka, leaving thousands of people homeless. Hundreds of shanties were destroyed in the ...

Workers for a local aid group reflect on poverty, health and a recent forced eviction in the slums of Bangladesh ...

DHAKA, Bangladesh -- The future is here, and it smells like burning trash. As the evening call to prayer echoes across Dhaka's teeming slums, a bluish haze rises in the murky air.

More than 10,000 people have been left homeless after a massive fire engulfed a slum in Bangladesh’s capital, Dhaka, destroying thousands of shanties, according to Bangladeshi officials.