In the slums, a miserable shack.

Kibera is the largest slum in Nairobi, and the largest urban slum in Africa.

Slums are breeding grounds for criminals.

And you go to a nice dense place like this slum in Mumbai.

Kibera is one of Africa's largest slums.

This is Kibera, which is the largest slum in East Africa.

This is Kibera, which is the largest slum in East Africa.

You know, I like to call it the national automobile slum.

To let him kick you into the gutter again?

Education is the only way out of the ghetto for many Roma.

Sudhir, on the other hand, got right back walked down to the housing project.

I'm poverty's new sheriff And I'm bashing in the slums

Turkey has two great laws that protect squatters.

(Laughter)

A favela () is a slum in Brazil, most often within urban areas.

This is the squatter community in Sanjay Gandhi National Park in Bombay, India, what's called Mumbai these days.

The Bwaise slum is located five minutes from Kampala's Central Business District.

It has one in three of its children living in poverty, and it's what is referred to as a rural ghetto.

This is Hosinia, the largest and most urbanized favela in Rio de Janeiro.

It's a remarkable comment on slums, poverty and aspiration.

And most of that growth is not in the cities, but in the slums that surround them.

Urban slums and their youth are the front line for any such efforts.

Relocation should be used only in exceptional circumstances, such as slum settlements in hazardous locations.

It is not the case that slums undermine prosperity, not the working slums they help create prosperity.

In the last shot of Miracle in Milan, slum dwellers float skyward on flying brooms.

This is the squatter community in Sanjay Gandhi National Park in Bombay, India, what's called Mumbai these days.

And you go to a nice dense place like this slum in Mumbai. You look at that lane on the right.

The slum built on the railroad reservation between the sea and the railroad tracks was completely swept away.

Indicators 17 ( Proportion of births attended by skilled health ) and 32 ( Slums ) are not at all relevant in Finland.

And these buildings were very crowded with families who had very little money. And the rooms were very poor.

And these vaccinators, these volunteers, they have got to dive headlong into some of the toughest, densest urban slums in the world.

The fighting prostitutes from the first City still hold a security perimeter around their native slums, against the besieging forces of darkness.

The methodology used for defining a slum was explained in the above mentioned report, which she would make available to delegations.

Urban slums like Nairobi s Kibera home to over one million people remain largely untouched by government services.

Urban slums like Nairobi s Kibera  home to over one million people remain largely untouched by government services.

The violent demolition has sparked a wave of indignation online. Billionaire Henry Sy's SM Development Corporation (SMDC) owns the 9.7 hectare lot which it plans to clear for the construction of condominiums and commercial establishments.

Tropical climates and urban slums are humanity s front line against pandemics, and they should be equipped properly.

Consider Katatura, a shantytown on the outskirts of Windhoek into which the former apartheid regime forced tens of thousands of blacks in the 1950 s and 1960 s.

Joint programming was being discussed in areas of common interest such as marginalized populations and urban slums.

This is perhaps the most primitive shanty that you can find in Kibera, little more than a stick and mud hut next to a garbage heap.

I have visited the huge slums of Iraq and found families living in homes with barely a roof to cover them, with infestations of insects everywhere, and with raw sewage seeping under their doors.

This is a place called the Madangiri Settlement Colony, which is a very developed slum about 25 minutes outside New Delhi, where I met these characters who showed me around for the day.

I saw myself and these rotten holes we live in through somebody else's eyes. I wanted to tear them down with my fingers.

A photo blogger based in the city of Voronezh, located in central Russia not far from the Ukranian border, has taken a series of striking photographs (including an animated panorama) of a small, forgotten slum hiding in the center of an otherwise modern and populous urban area.

The real problem is that China s authoritarian system faces little opposition when it decides to bulldoze a shantytown that stands in the way of a new airport.