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17/09/2024

Alcohol is a direct cause of seven types of cancer - but there is no government funded dedicated to reducing alcohol harms.

Help us to change this by signing our petition and emailing your MP: https://www.bigissuenorth.com/magazine/2024/08/join-us-in-calling-for-a-national-alcohol-strategy/

12/09/2024

There are 2.4 million people with foetal alcohol spectrum disorder in the UK - but there is no government funded dedicated to reducing alcohol harms.

Help us to change this by signing our petition and emailing your MP: https://www.bigissuenorth.com/magazine/2024/08/join-us-in-calling-for-a-national-alcohol-strategy/

07/04/2024

South Sudan suffers from a lack of experienced doctors, and so clinical officers – medics who have three years of training – form the backbone of healthcare, plugging the gap and often taking on immense responsibilities:

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06/04/2024

People who struggle with mental illness are more likely to experience homelessness and are more likely to stay on the streets, where conditions make them even sicker – and the situation quickly becomes life-threatening:

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05/04/2024

After more than five months, the United Nations Security Council has finally passed a resolution calling for an immediate ceasefire to the conflict in Gaza during the month of Ramadan, which ends on 9 April:

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04/04/2024

“Since I had to call the streets my home, I have strongly identified with urban pigeons, not least because I only managed to get off the streets thanks to an accident that almost cost me my entire leg,” says Agapezz, a writer with street paper Trott-war:

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03/04/2024

The wolf has always been a symbol of atavistic fear. Italian street paper zebra. followed in the footsteps of the great carnivore that both fascinates and terrifies human beings:

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02/04/2024

Ten years ago, on 23 March 2014, Guinea declared an outbreak of Ebola. Ebola outbreaks were known to be dangerous but small. Not this time. It would take two years – and more than 11,000 deaths – before the epidemic was over:

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01/04/2024

The global civilian and military casualties of war are innumerable. Amid this human suffering, the consequences of war on the climate and environment are overlooked — yet conflicts account for a disproportionately high amount of greenhouse gas emissions:

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31/03/2024

Climate change, and specifically rising temperatures, may cause food prices to increase by 3.2 per cent per year, according to a new study by researchers in Germany. This will mean that more and more people around the world will not have enough food:

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30/03/2024

The indigenous population of Bolivia lives according to centuries-old role models. Elena Quispe breaks with tradition. As a “Cholita Escaladora”, she moves mountains – and is revising the model role:

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29/03/2024

The act of giving money to vendors but not taking the magazine is a kind one, but it is important that you take a street paper that you have paid for away with you, just like you would if you bought it in a shop. Here's why:

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28/03/2024

Advances in technology have contributed to a global rise in political disinformation – in particular, the development that has taken place with synthetic media, otherwise known as deepfakes:

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27/03/2024

In his new novel, All My Ghosts, Uwe Timm looks back on his apprenticeship years in Hamburg in the 1950s. He spoke to local street paper Hinz&Kunzt about being close to home, breaking old thought patterns and old and new N***s:

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26/03/2024

Médecins Sans Frontières staff sheltering near Al-Shifa Hospital reported heavy fighting on 18 March. This comes as Israeli Forces announced that they were conducting a military operation inside and around the hospital in Gaza City:

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25/03/2024

Government statistics show a slight decrease in fuel poverty in England, from 13.2% in 2020 to 13.0% in 2023. But experts estimate the true rate to be around 2.5 times higher than what these statistics suggest:

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24/03/2024

Stefan Gogov, 47, started selling street paper Liceulice four years ago when he returned to his mother’s native country, Serbia, after growing up in France. He enjoys keeping busy and appreciates that his life is no longer monotonous:

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23/03/2024

A Russian refugee couple organises seminars for traumatised Ukrainian women in Hamburg, Germany. German street paper Hinz&Kunzt learns more:

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