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As a birth attendant advocating for family planning, Remy is on the frontline of Tondo’s battle with overcrowding.

Published On 19 Sep 2014
Video Duration 47 minutes 32 seconds 47:32

Find local broadcast times for Global News Insight’s series about Tondo, a settlement in Manila.

Published On 15 Sep 2014

Fourteen-year-old Reshmi is boxing her way out of the red light district where she was raised.

Published On 10 Sep 2014
Reshmi grew up in Kalighat, which is flooded almost daily by the nearby Adi Ganga Canal [Karen Dias]

Time has stood still for the residents of the Mae La refugee camp decades after they fled their homes in Myanmar.

Published On 10 Sep 2014
Saw Glads Htoo lives in the Mae La refugee camp on the Thailand-Myanmar border [Vincenzo Floramo/Global News Insight]

They dream of a permanent home in Europe but many migrants end up stranded in informal refugee settlements.

Published On 10 Sep 2014
Fathima Haj Abdi lives in the the Via Slataper slum in Florence [Federico Scoppa/Global News Insight]

The baale of Makoko is challenging negative stereotypes of Lagos’ economically productive overwater settlement.

Published On 10 Sep 2014
Emmanuel Shemede is chief of Makoko, an overwater settlement in Lagos [Ruth McDowall/Global News Insight]

A gang member from the world’s largest slum explains why his real battle is against everyday discrimination.

Published On 10 Sep 2014
El Guero Loco left school when he was just 12 years old [Misael Valtierra/Global News Insight]

Residents of a Bedouin village encircled by chemical factories and a waste facility face a ticking health time bomb.

Published On 10 Sep 2014
Naama and Abed live in the Bedouin village of Wadi al-Na’am in the Negev Desert [Kobi Wolf/Global News Insight]