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Women trained to fight crime in slum homes

For the best experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings. Enumerators for a planned mental health baseline survey at three major slums in Nakuru and ...
LAist

Finding 'Life, Death And Hope' In A Mumbai Slum

This interview was originally broadcast on Feb. 8, 2012. On Wednesday, Katherine Boo won the National Book Award for nonfiction for Behind the Beautiful Forevers. Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist ...
Reuters

Kenya's slum women risk health to avoid violence: group

NAIROBI (Reuters) - Kenya's poorest women risk the deadly diseases related to poor sanitation because "endemic" sexual violence in the capital's sprawling slums keeps them away from its communal ...
Thomson Reuters Foundation

Women leaders wangle water taps, security in India's slums

AHMEDABAD, India, Aug 16 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - H ansaben Rasid knows what it is like to live without a water tap or a toilet of her own, constantly fearful of being evicted by city officials ...