Migrant children stuck in slums on France’s northern coast face a “permanent danger” of sexual abuse or exploitation, the UN Children’s Fund has warned, urging the creation of protected areas for ...

The mayor of Calais on Monday raised the prospect of bringing in the army to watch over a slum where some 6,000 migrants are camped out in dire conditions. The so-called “New Jungle” camp, which is ...

DHAKA (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - For much of his early life on Bhola, an island in south-central Bangladesh, Mohammed Abul Kalam battled poverty and a hostile river that twice engulfed his ...

CALAIS, France (AP) — Inside the Kids Cafe, a ramshackle refuge in a sprawling migrant slum in Calais, a mobile phone rings. Afghan teenager Wasaal takes the call. A friend of his has managed to hide ...

A sense of anxiety grips Rangpuri Pahari, a slum in India's capital Delhi. The neighbourhood houses thousands of migrant workers who have lived hand-to-mouth for decades, mostly employed in the ...

Every morning, Shakuntala Devi and Shakiba Bibi - neighbours at a slum in India's capital Delhi - leave their homes, walking from one shop to another in search of a cooking gas cylinder. For three ...