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INSP Awards 2024

    INSP Awards 2024: shortlists and winners

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      INSP Awards 2024- Best Cover

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      Picture of Museum of Liverpool, where the Global Street Paper Summit will be held

        Global Street Paper Summit confirmed for Liverpool in 2024

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          A good life for all: Accessing welfare with an LGBTQ+ identity

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          Global Forum for Media Development

            INSP joins the Global Forum for Media Development

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            Apropos vendor Edi Binder

              Edi Binder on growing up in the shadow of war

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              Exhibition on street papers in Bern, Switzerland

                How do you create an exhibition about street papers?

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                New psychologists stand together

                  Entrant psychologists help people experiencing homelessness in Hungary

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                    Sexuality and homelessness in Montreal, Canada

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                    Picture of Helen Cruz who has been repeatedly fined for sleeping in Grants Pass

                      Grants Pass v. Johnson homelessness case to go before US Supreme Court

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                      AOTY Portraits – Australian of the Year Awards 2024 – Salty Dingo 2024

                        Yalmay Yunupinu: “We must have our land, language and culture”

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                        Stefan Gogov by Anja Mihić

                          Meet Liceulice vendor Stefan Gogov

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                          Jarkko “Jake” Jalonen defies the cold weather, checks the pictures on his phone

                            How Finland succeeded in reducing homelessness

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                              Arts & Homelessness International Award winners announced

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                              Mirjam Leitner surrounded by the Apropos choir. Photo credit: Norbert Kopf

                                Apropos editor Michaela Gründler: “I take all voices into account”

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                                Big Issue Taiwan

                                  Meet Kang Chiu-yen, Big Issue Taiwan vendor at Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall and Taipei Bridge Station

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                                  UK Poverty 2024 /Joseph Rowntree Foundation

                                    INSP responds to UK Poverty report

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                                    AI generated picture shows the future of journalism in 2024 with a young man working on a home computer showing human elements.

                                      Journalism in the year 2024

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                                      Picture of Museum of Liverpool, where the Global Street Paper Summit will be held

                                        Global Street Paper Summit confirmed for Liverpool in 2024

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                                        Meet Traços vendor Thifany Branco

                                          Meet Traços vendor Thifany Branco

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                                          The never-ending story of Faktum vendor Bertil Schöneman

                                            The never-ending story of Faktum vendor Bertil Schöneman

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                                            “I’m not a beggar, I’m a trader”

                                              “I’m not a beggar, I’m a trader”: 30 years of BISS

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                                              Journalism is not a crime

                                                'Journalism is not a crime' - reflections on the Thomson Reuters Foundation's Trust conference

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                                                Arts & Homelessness International Awards

                                                  New Arts and Homelessness International Awards launched

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                                                  Report on Scottish Social Enterprises impact

                                                    New report: 'Scotland – A world leader in international social enterprise'

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                                                    Korean street soccer project participants play football on a 5-a-side pitch

                                                      How street papers and street soccer go together at the 2023 Homeless World Cup in Sacramento

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                                                      Juha Kaakinen wears glasses a white shirt and black jacket. He is photographed walking down a busy street.

                                                        Finland is saying goodbye to homelessness: An interview with Juha Kaakinen

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                                                        Lice v Lice vendor Memet Kamber, who passed away due to complications from diabetes, stands smiling holding a copy of the magazine, wearing a grey jacket and a red and grey vest.

                                                          Lice v Lice vendor Memet Kamber’s death highlights the struggle undocumented citizens in North Macedonia face accessing health care

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                                                          What is a street paper?

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                                                          Street papers provide people in poverty with an immediate source of income while driving long-term change through journalism and advocacy.

                                                          Why street papers?

                                                          Changing lives

                                                          The cycle of homelessness is real... walking in that door (of the Big Issue), getting asked your first name and do you want to work? The power in that one sentence did so much for me.

                                                          Vendor Rachel, Big Issue Australia
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                                                          Changing perceptions

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                                                          Iso Numero

                                                          Street paper journalism is thorough and sharp and grounded in the social change required to end poverty and homelessness in our cities.

                                                          Sean, street paper reader, Vancouver, Canada.

                                                          Changing society

                                                          Street papers shape the cities we love and the values of the world in which we want to live.

                                                          Nikoleta Kosovac, Liceulice, Serbia
                                                          Woman wearing a blue vest and handing out Liceulice street paper in Serbia

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