From the depths of Kenya's informal settlements has risen slum tourism, an activity that attracts mixed views. There are claims that it benefits only a scrupulous few even as tourism bodies skirt the ...

A few years ago I was in Sierra Leone, just a week after Angelina Jolie, in her capacity as Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, had visited. The owner of the ...

RIO DE JANEIRO – Rolf Glaser zips his motorbike up the twisting alleyways of Vidigal slum, past a bunch of cheerful, gun-packing drug traffickers, and emerges at a cliffside plateau next to some demol ...

Katharina Goetze says she faced an ethical dilemma about going on a guided slum tour in Mumbai. "We had this discussion beforehand about whether it was poverty tourism," said Ms. Goetze, 29, as she ...

NAIROBI (Reuters) - It's the de rigeur stop off for caring foreign dignitaries. It reached a worldwide audience as a backdrop to the British blockbuster "The Constant Gardener". Any journalist wanting ...

A slum in Asalpha, in Mumbai's eastern suburbs, got a colourful makeover through a charity initiative aimed at brightening slums, home to more than half the city's population. Picture courtesy: Chal ...

The signs that spring break is just around the corner are hard to ignore – hordes of Cancun-bound revelers are packing the gym to tone their beach bodies and students everywhere are scrambling to ...