Once again, the Delhi Urban Shelter Improvement Board (DUSIB) is poised to raze six more shelter homes. According to residents of these six shelters, the DUSIB has halted the supply of food to them. Most of them work as...
Although slums are looked upon as a blot on the aesthetics of city life, it needs to be remembered that the existence of slums is a testament to the failure of the state to provide the urban poor with affordable housing.
Economic development that threatens the lives and livelihoods of indigenous people cannot be the only model available to us
Rendered homeless, after the National Disaster Rescue Force (NDRF), Delhi Development Authority (DDA), and Delhi Police evicted them from the Priyanka Gandhi camp in Vasant Vihar in the wee hours of June 16, hundreds of...
More than 1 million Rohingya refugees have fled to Bangladesh from Myanmar over several decades, including about 740,000 who crossed the border starting in August 2017, when the Myanmar military launched a brutal crackdown
Eviction and harassment of minority community, who are Muslims of Bengali origin, in Assam continues unabated and unchallenged as the ruling BJP compares its eviction drives as the ‘Last Battle of Saraighat’
Chugh accused Mehbooba of engaging in "cheap political tactics" by spreading fear and uncertainty among the poor and homeless population of the Union Territory.
Named after one the most iconic figures of Dalit empowerment in Maharashtra, the residents of the slum on Mumbai’s creek live perpetually under the brutal and rapacious claws of BMC authorities and their bulldozers
Anti-displacement movements, while often impeding government’s developmental plans, have rarely impacted political parties electorally.
While authorities in Delhi destroy homes of the poor in the name of development and beautification, rights activists claim that in most cases, urban slum...
The fact that they had been living there for decades does not matter to authorities when they bulldoze the homes of hundreds of Adivasis and Dalits, rendering...
In the transit town of Haldwani, about 50,000 people are currently embroiled in a legal tussle with the North Eastern Railways and the state government for...
When it comes to protecting the rights of the poor, the higher judiciary is more punitive than protective
Winter can be fatal for the homeless and marginalised and the government needs to provide them with greater assistance. Just providing temporary shelter is an...
With temperatures plummeting across Uttar Pradesh, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has instructed officials to make necessary arrangements for the safety and...
Replying to a question in the Lok Sabha, Puri said the capacity of government shelter homes is 1.25 lakh but occupancy is 50 per cent.
Incessant rainfall over a number of regions in Assam has left 10,000 people homeless in Tripura since Friday.
Outlook photographers tell the brutal story of heatwave through the sufferings of people
Despite constitutional provisions and several landmark Supreme Court judgments, the right to shelter continues to be neglected by the successive...
As per the ongoing survey, as of now 5,153 children are living on the streets with their families, 1,266 are on the streets but live in slums and 39 are...
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Citing official data, NGO Centre for Holistic Development (CHD) said the number of homeless people far outstrips the capacity of existing night shelters in...
As the temperatures dip to single digits, Delhi's homeless seek refuge in its 'rain baseras' or shelter homes. But while there are over 200 shelter homes,...
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Gavin Newson said that people who were formerly homeless or formerly incarcerated will be given priority for the jobs created by the three-year program
As the world is locked indoors, homeless sleepers lay proprietorial claim to their cities. (This was first published on 25 May, 2020.)
This account of my visit to my homeland last year is an attempt to express the pain, the bitterness and the anger I feel for being an Indian, a Kashmiri and a...
