• New Housing for Bangkok Slum Residents [Informal City Dialogues]

    Informal housing is changing in Bangkok. Through a program called the Community Organizations Development Institute (CODI), more slum dwellers are being given the chance to take the lead in upgrading or resettling their homes. An alternative to top-down government solutions -- which sometimes do more harm than good -- CODI puts the people most affected by slum conditions at the forefront of the process. Watch this video with Thai subtitles: http://youtu.be/uqwGT9_UHk0 This film is part of The Rockefeller Foundation's Informal City Dialogues (http://www.nextcity.org/informalcity), in partnership with Forum for the Future and Next City. The project aims to start a conversation about informality in six different developing cities, and how we might make those cities more inclusive and resili...

    published: 26 Mar 2013
  • Starving Caracas slum residents protest outside supermarket

    Over a hundred residents of the Catia slum in Caracas gather to protest against food shortages. The Catia slum has traditionnally been a bastion of Chavismo but the mounting food crisis has turned many residents against the government of Nicolas Maduro.

    published: 15 Jun 2016
  • Residents of Nigeria's floating slum thrive

    Makoko in Nigeria is one of the more unusual slums in all of Africa. It’s built on water, which provides a way of life for the fishing community - but also risks spreading disease because of the cramped population. In the first of a four-part special on global slums Mohammed Adow reports from Lagos. Watch the six-part documentary series "The Slum" here: http://aje.me/YCFxFn Subscribe to our channel http://bit.ly/AJSubscribe Follow us on Twitter https://twitter.com/AJEnglish Find us on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/aljazeera Check our website: http://www.aljazeera.com/

    published: 12 Sep 2014
  • Slum residents fight Mumbai airport expansion - 18 June 07

    Subscribe to our channel http://bit.ly/AJSubscribe Laurence Lee reports on residents of a slum near Mumbai's busiest airport who are fighting a proposed expansion that would force up to 100,000 people to move. At Al Jazeera English, we focus on people and events that affect people's lives. We bring topics to light that often go under-reported, listening to all sides of the story and giving a 'voice to the voiceless.' Reaching more than 270 million households in over 140 countries across the globe, our viewers trust Al Jazeera English to keep them informed, inspired, and entertained. Our impartial, fact-based reporting wins worldwide praise and respect. It is our unique brand of journalism that the world has come to rely on. We are reshaping global media and constantly working to strength...

    published: 18 Jun 2007
  • Giant Outdoor Escalator in Medellin Improves Lives of Slum Residents (Part 1/2)

    CCTV's Michelle Begue takes us to Medellin, Colombia, to show how a giant outdoor escalator in one of the nation's poorest neighborhoods is lifting the fortunes of the unfortunate.

    published: 18 Sep 2012
  • Thai Translation - New Housing for Bangkok Slum Residents [Informal City Dialogues]

    แรงงานและเศรษฐกิจ "นอกระบบ" นั้นมีบทบาทที่สำคัญต่อการพัฒนาเมืองเป็นอย่างยิ่ง และอาจกล่าวได้ว่า ภาคส่วน "นอกระบบ" นั้น แท้จริงแล้วก็คือภาพสะท้อนการทำงานของ "ระบบ" (ที่มี "ความเป็นทางการ") ภาพยนตร์สั้นกึ่งสารคดีที่ท่านกำลังจะได้รับชมต่อไปนี้จะแสดงถึงความทับซ้อนและความคลุมเครือดังกล่าว ภาพยนตร์สั้นกึ่งสารคดีนี้ เป็นส่วนหนึ่งของโครงการอินฟอร์มอลซิตี้ไดอะล็อกส์ (Informal City Dialogues: http://nextcity.org/informalcity) ซึ่งมีมูลนิธิร็อกเกอะเฟลเลอร์ (Rockefeller Foundation) เป็นผู้ให้ทุนสนับสนุน และมีฟอรั่มฟอร์เดอะฟิวเจอร์ (Forum for the Future) และเน็กซต์ซิตี้ (Next City) เป็นผู้ประสานงานและดำเนินงาน โครงการนี้ต้องการที่จะกระตุ้นให้เกิดการแลกเปลี่ยนความคิดเห็น โดยเฉพาะในเรื่องที่เกี่ยวกับแรงงานและเศรษฐกิจ "นอกระบบ" หรือ "ไม่เป็นทางการ" และจะทำอย่างไรให้เมืองของเรานั้นสามารถส่งเสริมความสม...

    published: 08 Apr 2013
  • Giant Outdoor Escalator in Medellin Improves Lives of Slum Residents (Part 2/2)

    CCTV's Michelle Begue takes us to Medellin, Colombia, to show how a giant outdoor escalator in one of the nation's poorest neighborhoods is lifting the fortunes of the unfortunate.

    published: 19 Sep 2012
  • Montezuma slum residents live under high-power voltage lines

    Informal settlements in the country have been known to be places where people risk a lot and live with little or no access to basic amenities. But along Mbagathi way in Nairobi a slum is cropping up with its residents living at the edge of death. Watch KTN Live http://www.ktnkenya.tv/live Follow us on http://www.twitter.com/ktnkenya Like us on http://www.facebook.com/ktnkenya

    published: 21 Feb 2015
  • Slums residents of Argentina’s capital fighting for change

    The sprawling shantytowns in Argentina's capital are seen by outsiders as no-go zones, largely run by drug gangs and other criminal rings. In fact, even emergency services stay away. So residents are doing things for themselves. Al Jazeera’s Daniel Schweimler reports from Buenos Aires. - Subscribe to our channel: http://aje.io/AJSubscribe - Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/AJEnglish - Find us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/aljazeera - Check our website: http://www.aljazeera.com/

    published: 05 Mar 2017
  • Brazil Police Torture and Disappear Slum Residents With Impunity

    Brazil's police have tortured and disappeared more people under democratic leadership (1985-present) then during its military dictatorship (1964 - 1985)

    published: 04 Sep 2013
  • Slum residents in Mombasa raise alarm over wall hanging dangerously

    Life is slowly turning out to be a nightmare for residents of an informal settlement in Mombasa as a wall hangs dangerously near collapse at Mburukenge slums. Residents say they are now tired of raising this alarm and now want the national construction authority to move in with haste and address the matter Watch KTN Live http://www.ktnkenya.tv/live Follow us on http://www.twitter.com/ktnkenya Like us on http://www.facebook.com/ktnkenya

    published: 06 Mar 2015
  • Ghana slum residents fight eviction, demolition

    Agbogbloshie, Accra, Ghana; June 2015 Accra Metropolitan Assembly Demolition Exercise Video by Dana Wachter for GlobalSistersReport.org, a project of National Catholic Reporter

    published: 10 Jun 2016
  • Kenya Slum: Residents Seek Regeneration For The Area

    For more information log on to http://www.channelstv.com

    published: 25 May 2016
  • Yangon Regional Chief Minister on Slum Residents

    ရန္ကုန္တုိင္းအတြင္းက က်ဴးေက်ာ္ေနထိုင္သူေတြ ျပႆနာကို ေျဖရွင္းသြားမွာျဖစ္ၿပီး၊ ေမလ ၂၅ ရက္ေန႔ ေနာက္ပိုင္းမွာ က်ဴးေက်ာ္ေနထုိင္ လာသူေတြကို ဥပေဒအရ အေရးယူသြားမယ္လို႔ တုိင္းဝန္ႀကီးခ်ဳပ္ ဦးၿဖိဳးမင္းသိန္းက ေျပာလိုက္ပါတယ္။ RFA သတင္းေထာက္ ကိုေက်ာ္ေဇာဝင္းက တင္ျပထားပါတယ္။

    published: 25 May 2016
  • Andheri Marol Slum Residents FIGHT for Own House-TV9 /part2

    shakha 9 at andheri east, Marol Pipeline : andheri Marol Slum Residents FIGHT for their Own House... For more videos go to https://www.youtube.com/tv9marathi Like us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/Tv9Marathi Follow us on Twitter at https://twitter.com/Tv9marathiNews For more videos go to http://www.dailymotion.com/TV9Mumbai Circle us on Tv9 Marathi G+ at https://plus.google.com/+tv9maharashtra

    published: 11 Feb 2016
  • Slum residents, the ones living in endless peace

    published: 31 Jan 2016
New Housing for Bangkok Slum Residents [Informal City Dialogues]

New Housing for Bangkok Slum Residents [Informal City Dialogues]

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  • Duration: 4:45
  • Updated: 26 Mar 2013
  • views: 5966
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Informal housing is changing in Bangkok. Through a program called the Community Organizations Development Institute (CODI), more slum dwellers are being given the chance to take the lead in upgrading or resettling their homes. An alternative to top-down government solutions -- which sometimes do more harm than good -- CODI puts the people most affected by slum conditions at the forefront of the process. Watch this video with Thai subtitles: http://youtu.be/uqwGT9_UHk0 This film is part of The Rockefeller Foundation's Informal City Dialogues (http://www.nextcity.org/informalcity), in partnership with Forum for the Future and Next City. The project aims to start a conversation about informality in six different developing cities, and how we might make those cities more inclusive and resilient as we move into our rapidly urbanizing future. Join the conversation. http://nextcity.org/informalcity http://facebook.com/nextcityorg http://twitter.com/nextcityorg http://twitter.com/informalcity #InformalCity Video created by Still Life Projects http://stilllifeprojects.com
https://wn.com/New_Housing_For_Bangkok_Slum_Residents_Informal_City_Dialogues
Starving Caracas slum residents protest outside supermarket

Starving Caracas slum residents protest outside supermarket

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  • Duration: 0:52
  • Updated: 15 Jun 2016
  • views: 415
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Over a hundred residents of the Catia slum in Caracas gather to protest against food shortages. The Catia slum has traditionnally been a bastion of Chavismo but the mounting food crisis has turned many residents against the government of Nicolas Maduro.
https://wn.com/Starving_Caracas_Slum_Residents_Protest_Outside_Supermarket
Residents of Nigeria's floating slum thrive

Residents of Nigeria's floating slum thrive

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  • Duration: 2:27
  • Updated: 12 Sep 2014
  • views: 18001
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Makoko in Nigeria is one of the more unusual slums in all of Africa. It’s built on water, which provides a way of life for the fishing community - but also risks spreading disease because of the cramped population. In the first of a four-part special on global slums Mohammed Adow reports from Lagos. Watch the six-part documentary series "The Slum" here: http://aje.me/YCFxFn Subscribe to our channel http://bit.ly/AJSubscribe Follow us on Twitter https://twitter.com/AJEnglish Find us on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/aljazeera Check our website: http://www.aljazeera.com/
https://wn.com/Residents_Of_Nigeria's_Floating_Slum_Thrive
Slum residents fight Mumbai airport expansion - 18 June 07

Slum residents fight Mumbai airport expansion - 18 June 07

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  • Duration: 3:37
  • Updated: 18 Jun 2007
  • views: 4863
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Subscribe to our channel http://bit.ly/AJSubscribe Laurence Lee reports on residents of a slum near Mumbai's busiest airport who are fighting a proposed expansion that would force up to 100,000 people to move. At Al Jazeera English, we focus on people and events that affect people's lives. We bring topics to light that often go under-reported, listening to all sides of the story and giving a 'voice to the voiceless.' Reaching more than 270 million households in over 140 countries across the globe, our viewers trust Al Jazeera English to keep them informed, inspired, and entertained. Our impartial, fact-based reporting wins worldwide praise and respect. It is our unique brand of journalism that the world has come to rely on. We are reshaping global media and constantly working to strengthen our reputation as one of the world's most respected news and current affairs channels. Social Media links: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/aljazeera Instagram: https://instagram.com/aljazeera/?ref=... Twitter: https://twitter.com/ajenglish Website: http://www.aljazeera.com/ google+: https://plus.google.com/+aljazeera/posts
https://wn.com/Slum_Residents_Fight_Mumbai_Airport_Expansion_18_June_07
Giant Outdoor Escalator in Medellin Improves Lives of Slum Residents (Part 1/2)

Giant Outdoor Escalator in Medellin Improves Lives of Slum Residents (Part 1/2)

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  • Duration: 3:35
  • Updated: 18 Sep 2012
  • views: 6689
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CCTV's Michelle Begue takes us to Medellin, Colombia, to show how a giant outdoor escalator in one of the nation's poorest neighborhoods is lifting the fortunes of the unfortunate.
https://wn.com/Giant_Outdoor_Escalator_In_Medellin_Improves_Lives_Of_Slum_Residents_(Part_1_2)
Thai Translation - New Housing for Bangkok Slum Residents [Informal City Dialogues]

Thai Translation - New Housing for Bangkok Slum Residents [Informal City Dialogues]

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  • Duration: 4:45
  • Updated: 08 Apr 2013
  • views: 1109
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แรงงานและเศรษฐกิจ "นอกระบบ" นั้นมีบทบาทที่สำคัญต่อการพัฒนาเมืองเป็นอย่างยิ่ง และอาจกล่าวได้ว่า ภาคส่วน "นอกระบบ" นั้น แท้จริงแล้วก็คือภาพสะท้อนการทำงานของ "ระบบ" (ที่มี "ความเป็นทางการ") ภาพยนตร์สั้นกึ่งสารคดีที่ท่านกำลังจะได้รับชมต่อไปนี้จะแสดงถึงความทับซ้อนและความคลุมเครือดังกล่าว ภาพยนตร์สั้นกึ่งสารคดีนี้ เป็นส่วนหนึ่งของโครงการอินฟอร์มอลซิตี้ไดอะล็อกส์ (Informal City Dialogues: http://nextcity.org/informalcity) ซึ่งมีมูลนิธิร็อกเกอะเฟลเลอร์ (Rockefeller Foundation) เป็นผู้ให้ทุนสนับสนุน และมีฟอรั่มฟอร์เดอะฟิวเจอร์ (Forum for the Future) และเน็กซต์ซิตี้ (Next City) เป็นผู้ประสานงานและดำเนินงาน โครงการนี้ต้องการที่จะกระตุ้นให้เกิดการแลกเปลี่ยนความคิดเห็น โดยเฉพาะในเรื่องที่เกี่ยวกับแรงงานและเศรษฐกิจ "นอกระบบ" หรือ "ไม่เป็นทางการ" และจะทำอย่างไรให้เมืองของเรานั้นสามารถส่งเสริมความสมานสามัคคี (inclusive) และสามารถรับมือกับความไม่แน่นอนและภัยพิบัติ (resilient) ให้ดีขึ้นในอนาคต โครงการนี้ครอบคลุมถึงหกเมืองทั่วโลก ซึ่งนอกจากกรุงเทพมหานครของไทยแล้ว ยังรวมถึงเมืองอักกราในประเทศกานา เมืองเจนไนในประเทศอินเดีย เมืองลิมาในประเทศเปรู เมืองมะนิลาในประเทศฟิลิปปินส์ และเมืองไนโรบีในประเทศเคนยา Translation --  Watch this video with English title cards and subtitles: http://youtu.be/0v--W7YFsks Informal housing is changing in Bangkok. Through a program called the Community Organizations Development Institute (CODI), more slum dwellers are being given the chance to take the lead in upgrading or resettling their homes. This film is part of The Rockefeller Foundation's Informal City Dialogues, in partnership with Forum for the Future and Next City. The project aims to start a conversation about informality in six different developing cities, and how we might make those cities more inclusive and resilient as we move into our rapidly urbanizing future. Join the conversation. http://nextcity.org/informalcity http://facebook.com/nextcityorg http://twitter.com/nextcityorg http://twitter.com/informalcity #InformalCity Video created by Still Life Projects http://stilllifeprojects.com
https://wn.com/Thai_Translation_New_Housing_For_Bangkok_Slum_Residents_Informal_City_Dialogues
Giant Outdoor Escalator in Medellin Improves Lives of Slum Residents (Part 2/2)

Giant Outdoor Escalator in Medellin Improves Lives of Slum Residents (Part 2/2)

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  • Duration: 3:20
  • Updated: 19 Sep 2012
  • views: 1490
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CCTV's Michelle Begue takes us to Medellin, Colombia, to show how a giant outdoor escalator in one of the nation's poorest neighborhoods is lifting the fortunes of the unfortunate.
https://wn.com/Giant_Outdoor_Escalator_In_Medellin_Improves_Lives_Of_Slum_Residents_(Part_2_2)
Montezuma slum residents live under high-power voltage lines

Montezuma slum residents live under high-power voltage lines

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  • Duration: 3:05
  • Updated: 21 Feb 2015
  • views: 440
videos
Informal settlements in the country have been known to be places where people risk a lot and live with little or no access to basic amenities. But along Mbagathi way in Nairobi a slum is cropping up with its residents living at the edge of death. Watch KTN Live http://www.ktnkenya.tv/live Follow us on http://www.twitter.com/ktnkenya Like us on http://www.facebook.com/ktnkenya
https://wn.com/Montezuma_Slum_Residents_Live_Under_High_Power_Voltage_Lines
Slums residents of Argentina’s capital fighting for change

Slums residents of Argentina’s capital fighting for change

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  • Duration: 2:22
  • Updated: 05 Mar 2017
  • views: 5808
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The sprawling shantytowns in Argentina's capital are seen by outsiders as no-go zones, largely run by drug gangs and other criminal rings. In fact, even emergency services stay away. So residents are doing things for themselves. Al Jazeera’s Daniel Schweimler reports from Buenos Aires. - Subscribe to our channel: http://aje.io/AJSubscribe - Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/AJEnglish - Find us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/aljazeera - Check our website: http://www.aljazeera.com/
https://wn.com/Slums_Residents_Of_Argentina’S_Capital_Fighting_For_Change
Brazil Police Torture and Disappear Slum Residents With Impunity

Brazil Police Torture and Disappear Slum Residents With Impunity

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  • Duration: 16:13
  • Updated: 04 Sep 2013
  • views: 2170
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Brazil's police have tortured and disappeared more people under democratic leadership (1985-present) then during its military dictatorship (1964 - 1985)
https://wn.com/Brazil_Police_Torture_And_Disappear_Slum_Residents_With_Impunity
Slum residents in Mombasa raise alarm over wall hanging dangerously

Slum residents in Mombasa raise alarm over wall hanging dangerously

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  • Duration: 2:41
  • Updated: 06 Mar 2015
  • views: 549
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Life is slowly turning out to be a nightmare for residents of an informal settlement in Mombasa as a wall hangs dangerously near collapse at Mburukenge slums. Residents say they are now tired of raising this alarm and now want the national construction authority to move in with haste and address the matter Watch KTN Live http://www.ktnkenya.tv/live Follow us on http://www.twitter.com/ktnkenya Like us on http://www.facebook.com/ktnkenya
https://wn.com/Slum_Residents_In_Mombasa_Raise_Alarm_Over_Wall_Hanging_Dangerously
Ghana slum residents fight eviction, demolition

Ghana slum residents fight eviction, demolition

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  • Duration: 2:01
  • Updated: 10 Jun 2016
  • views: 284
videos https://wn.com/Ghana_Slum_Residents_Fight_Eviction,_Demolition
Kenya Slum: Residents Seek Regeneration For The Area

Kenya Slum: Residents Seek Regeneration For The Area

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  • Duration: 3:12
  • Updated: 25 May 2016
  • views: 84
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For more information log on to http://www.channelstv.com
https://wn.com/Kenya_Slum_Residents_Seek_Regeneration_For_The_Area
Yangon Regional Chief Minister on Slum Residents

Yangon Regional Chief Minister on Slum Residents

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  • Duration: 3:16
  • Updated: 25 May 2016
  • views: 746
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ရန္ကုန္တုိင္းအတြင္းက က်ဴးေက်ာ္ေနထိုင္သူေတြ ျပႆနာကို ေျဖရွင္းသြားမွာျဖစ္ၿပီး၊ ေမလ ၂၅ ရက္ေန႔ ေနာက္ပိုင္းမွာ က်ဴးေက်ာ္ေနထုိင္ လာသူေတြကို ဥပေဒအရ အေရးယူသြားမယ္လို႔ တုိင္းဝန္ႀကီးခ်ဳပ္ ဦးၿဖိဳးမင္းသိန္းက ေျပာလိုက္ပါတယ္။ RFA သတင္းေထာက္ ကိုေက်ာ္ေဇာဝင္းက တင္ျပထားပါတယ္။
https://wn.com/Yangon_Regional_Chief_Minister_On_Slum_Residents
Andheri Marol Slum Residents FIGHT for Own House-TV9 /part2

Andheri Marol Slum Residents FIGHT for Own House-TV9 /part2

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  • Duration: 11:26
  • Updated: 11 Feb 2016
  • views: 1038
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shakha 9 at andheri east, Marol Pipeline : andheri Marol Slum Residents FIGHT for their Own House... For more videos go to https://www.youtube.com/tv9marathi Like us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/Tv9Marathi Follow us on Twitter at https://twitter.com/Tv9marathiNews For more videos go to http://www.dailymotion.com/TV9Mumbai Circle us on Tv9 Marathi G+ at https://plus.google.com/+tv9maharashtra
https://wn.com/Andheri_Marol_Slum_Residents_Fight_For_Own_House_Tv9_Part2
Slum residents, the ones living in endless peace

Slum residents, the ones living in endless peace

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  • Duration: 4:27
  • Updated: 31 Jan 2016
  • views: 44
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https://wn.com/Slum_Residents,_The_Ones_Living_In_Endless_Peace
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