It is evident also in the huge squatter colonies that have been created by urban migration and whose residents subsist, in some cases, by picking through vast garbage dumps for scraps.

The majority of these children are from the slums, squatter colonies, railway platforms and red light areas.

The family now lives in the wretchedness of Tajabad, one of Peshawar's many squatter colonies that teem with Afghan refugees.

The police accuse gangsters of using the squatter colony to mount armed robberies and ambush policemen.

According to the Unicef study, nearly one-fourth of all city dwellers in the Philippines now live in slums and squatter colonies, sometimes massive settlements of scavengers who cluster around garbage dumps.

But they say they had nowhere else to go, homeless migrants who shift from village to city, from one squatter colony to another, nibbling at the edges of society.

There's something funny going on in the squatter colony at the end of the bay.

Frank gazed intently across the water at the squatter colony, now falling astern.

They hid their cycles in a grove of short, scrubby pines near the squatter colony.

On Feb. 23, there was a police attack on the squatter colony, part of the government's occasional effort at slum clearance.