Tag Archives : squalor

Ron Corben reports in VOANews.com from Bangkok that ‘residents of the Klong Toey slum near Bangkok’s port have come to the aid of the children of Haiti. Volunteers and children from the Duang Prateep Foundation, which works with the community, on Sunday walked through narrow lanes and alleys seeking donations.’ Klong Toey is one of the poorest [...]

Phnom Penh has been developing at breakneck speed. Infrastructure dots the capital. The result of this property boom is the sad and sorry reality that the city’s poor are being displaced at an alarming rate. ‘Activists are calling it the largest epidemic of evictions since the Khmer Rouge emptied all of Phnom Penh in 1975.’ The government [...]

Two million people live in this sprawling spread of squalor where sub-human standards of living, alone are a definite equivalent of human rights violation. Amnesty International’s report entitled The Unseen Majority: Nairobi’s Two Million Slum Dwellers also outlines the gross human rights abuses, along with the sordid poverty, that exist [...]

For the lowly ‘farmers and herders fleeing the war between the Yemeni army and Houthi Shia rebels that broke out last month in the country’s mountainous north,’ the noise of heavy artillery, mortar attacks, and aerial bombardment have become familiar sounds. These people have become refugees, temporarily sheltered far away from their villages [...]

A de facto AIDS colony in Tuol Sambo, Cambodia is a gross violation of human rights. The country’s government has been urged by more than 100 international organizations and experts to ‘immediately stop sending HIV-affected families there.’ These concerned groups have also asked the Cambodian government for immediate action on improving the living [...]

To me, it seemed that the filmmakers behind Slumdog Millionaire started out with the concept of the great pipe dream via a contest where millions of cash are at stake. The word ‘millionaire’ just has to be in the very title of the game show that will be used. Since drama is all about conflict, they looked for the juxtaposition of millions and found [...]