Hundreds of people descended on a seaside town on the first day of a three-day sea shanty festival. People came from as far as Canada and the US to enjoy the not-for-profit event in Harwich ...

Canada Real, a shanty town in Spain's Madrid Region, is a sprawling informal housing area that stretches along an 8.9-mile road connecting La Rioja and Ciudad Real. These makeshift homes, which extend ...

The number of people living in shanty towns or “misery villages” in Argentina and particularly in the capital Buenos Aires keeps increasing despite a decade of sustained growth at almost ...

An estimated 6.5 million people live in the city with around ... something more recently established shanty towns do not have. Rocinha still has a reputation for gang crime and drugs.

Over fifty thousand people live in shanty towns in Italy. Photographer and journalist Sergio Ramazzotti and Andrea Monzani tell the story of these forgotten people in their documentary "Baraccopolis".

According to the ECSR, Spain is in breach of its obligations to guarantee decent housing for these people, who have been living for years in this shanty town in the south-east of the Spanish capital.