India's rural poor may lose out as drones map village landA nationwide programme to map residential land in rural India using drones may marginalise lower-caste communities and women |
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Life after lockdown: Cities around the world roll out their reopening plansMany cities are tentatively preparing to ease coronavirus lockdowns - but doing so will be a tricky balancing act. Here's what different cities have planned, from Bogota to Berlin. |
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Amazon leaders demand illegal miners stay away to protect tribal livesIllegal miners have been accused of taking advantage of coronavirus quarantines to carry out their activities |
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Coronavirus will travel 'incredibly fast' in Africa's slums, U.N. cities chief warnsThe Thomson Reuters Foundation spoke to UN-Habitat Executive Director Maimunah Mohd Sharif about efforts to slow the spread of the virus in Africa's cities |
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Evictions, power cuts heighten S. Africa housing crisis amid lockdownDespite a moratorium on evictions, tenants unable to pay rent are having utilities shut off and being kicked out of their homes |
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Flood prevention could bring 'huge' payoff as global risks riseAs climate change brings growing risks of inundation, especially in Asia, investing now in protection could bring huge savings, researchers say |
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Homeless people 'treated as criminals' amid coronavirus lockdownsAs cities order people to stay off the streets, homelessness activists say police are targeting those with nowhere else to go. |
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Senegal groups get homeless children off streets amid coronavirusSocial services are stepping up support and housing for highly vulnerable homeless children during the pandemic |
Five years after Nepal's quake, lockdown stops reconstructionLess than half a million houses have been built or rebuilt as many people who lack land ownership certificates are yet to receive loans to start rebuilding houses |
In already poor Honduras, coronavirus pushes some into homelessnessSome informal economy workers are unable to afford the apartments they had previously been renting, and are forced to spend the night on the streets |
Indonesia's capital relocation on hold, shifts budget to fight pandemicIndonesia's $33 billion project to relocate the capital out of the main Java island to the island of Borneo has yet to be approved by the parliament |
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