Norwegian director Monica Strømdahl spent years traveling across the United States, documenting life in cheap hotels also known as flophouses. Then in 2017, she met 11-year-old Mikal in a hotel lobby.

Born into abject poverty in rural Mississippi to a teenage single mother, Oprah Winfrey endured a childhood of sexual abuse, neglect, and instability before going on to become the world's richest ...

Did you know that 28.5 million Kenyans are living in abject poverty, an increase of 15 per cent since 2013? These disturbing statistics were revealed in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG’s) fact ...

According to the data collected by Deep Poverty Network, the poorest population of İstanbul live in the districts of Esenyurt, Şişli, Çekmeköy, Ataşehir,Sancaktepe, Sultanbeyli, Kağıthane, Ümraniye, ...

“Deep poverty refers to a chronic state of abject poverty faced by those living under starvation line,” says Hacer Foggo from the Deep Poverty Network, noting that the state needs to intervene in this ...