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All rights reserved.The global street paper movement unveiled its plans to offer a digital alternative to printed magazines.http://www.streetnewsservice.org/news/2012/may/feed-330/street-papers-announce-digital-initiative.aspx15/05/2012U desničarskom kampu za obuku, mladi Južnoafrikanci uče kako da se bore za svoju afrikansku tradiciju i protiv Mandeline „nacije duginih boja“http://www.streetnewsservice.org/news/2012/may/feed-329/preživljavanje-najbeljih-afrikanski-kamp-za-obuku.aspx14/05/2012The inspiring stories of Cynthia Gogotya and Olwethu Dyabooi showcase a street paper’s ability to not only support its vendors but offer them a brighter future, whether it involves dancing or studying social work.http://www.streetnewsservice.org/news/2012/may/feed-329/bright-future-for-big-issue-sa’s-vendors.aspx14/05/2012In a country where 40% of the population is affected, in one way or another, by the dark world of drug trafficking, how does a journalist manage to humanise his reports without dying in the attempt? Dante Leguizamón spoke to Javier Valdez Cárdenas, a Mexican reporter who somehow manages to bring poetry to the horror.http://www.streetnewsservice.org/news/2012/may/feed-329/exposing-mexico’s-drug-trafficking-trade,-at-a-price.aspx14/05/2012Cómo hace un periodista que vive en un país en el que 40% de su población está tocada, de una u otra manera, por la oscura varita del narcotráfico para humanizar sus crónicas y no perecer en el intento? Dante Leguizamón habló con Javier Valdez Cárdenas, un cronista mexicano que logra ponerle poesía al horror. http://www.streetnewsservice.org/news/2012/may/feed-329/javier-valdez-cárdenas-periodista-y-escritor-mexicano.aspx14/05/2012The responsibility for the Vancouver Police Department’s aim to reach out to the city’s homeless population lies in the hands of a single police officer. Canadian street paper Megaphone rides along to find out more about this controversial outreach program. http://www.streetnewsservice.org/news/2012/may/feed-329/policing-vancouver’s-homeless.aspx14/05/2012Many homeless couples choose to remain on the street rather than be separated by homeless services, but Progress Haven in Philadelphia is a shelter determined to keep homeless couples together as it helps them on the road to recovery.http://www.streetnewsservice.org/news/2012/may/feed-329/philadelphia’s-haven-for-homeless-couples.aspx14/05/2012In Massachusetts, the sight of homeless travelers and panhandlers in the city center is nothing new, however, merchants in Harvard Square and the police share growing concerns that the panhandlers are becoming more aggressive; disturbing the peace and threatening local businesses. http://www.streetnewsservice.org/news/2012/may/feed-329/homeless-‘travelers’-and-panhandlers-threaten-peace.aspx14/05/2012Grateful Dead drummer Mickey Hart has been studying the social and cultural aspects of music for decades and now he’s boldly going where no drummer has gone before, by harnessing the sounds of the universe for his latest tour.http://www.streetnewsservice.org/news/2012/may/feed-329/beating-hart.aspx14/05/2012In Washington D.C. non-profits like Sasha Bruce Youthwork are helping young people growing up in ‘unstable environments’ to stay off the streets by offering them help in areas such as education, housing and mental health. Their trade is turning lives around and for Steve Cherenfant, their support has been invaluable.http://www.streetnewsservice.org/news/2012/may/feed-329/non-profit-keeps-troubled-youth-off-streets.aspx14/05/2012Hundreds of young adults in the foster care system are facing emotional problems, living in poverty and struggle to become independent upon exiting the system. Many of those forced into the system are crying out against being separated from their siblings and the detrimental effect being moved around foster care homes has had on their education and, possibly, their future.http://www.streetnewsservice.org/news/2012/may/feed-329/young-women-speak-out-against-foster-care-system.aspx14/05/2012On March 24, the Rhode Island Coalition for the Homeless presented their annual luncheon of 2012 at the Crowne Plaza, where many politicians, homeless advocates, and supporters celebrated the work from those have achieved great accomplishments regarding the homeless and housing crisis in Rhode Island.http://www.streetnewsservice.org/news/2012/may/feed-329/rhode-island-celebrates-homeless-advocates.aspx14/05/2012Revelations of horrific levels of sexual abuse and violence suffered by women and children in Australia's aboriginal communities have surfaced, even as the fifth session of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (UNPFII) is underway in New York.http://www.streetnewsservice.org/news/2012/may/feed-329/ignoring-abuse-of-aboriginal-women,-children.aspx14/05/2012Social activists say that attempts to rehabilitate sex workers in this former monarchy call for special efforts to uplift the Badi, a Hindu caste that has for centuries been associated with entertainment and prostitution.http://www.streetnewsservice.org/news/2012/may/feed-329/caste-blocks-revamp-of-nepal's-sex-workers.aspx14/05/2012It was tough for Hassan Toure to decide to stay in his small town on the outskirts of Kidal, in northern Mali. The government troops had withdrawn on Mar. 30, and several armed groups, including militias and bandits, were operating in the region.http://www.streetnewsservice.org/news/2012/may/feed-329/child-soldiers-used-in-mali-conflict.aspx14/05/2012Thousands of children in Uganda are suffering from a mysterious illness that manifests itself in victims through the nodding of the head. So far 200 children have died from the disease in northern Uganda, but government health workers and NGOs remain in the dark about both its cause and cure. http://www.streetnewsservice.org/news/2012/may/feed-329/the-mystery-disease-striking-uganda’s-children.aspx14/05/2012When Abdul Maraf Yildiz looks at the thousands of Syrian refugees flooding across the border into southern Turkey, he sees himself, 30 years ago.http://www.streetnewsservice.org/news/2012/may/feed-329/syrians'-plight-touches-turkey's-little-afghanistan.aspx14/05/2012Werner Schmidtke has a recurring nightmare: he is in a room full of boys strapped to metal beds, naked and blindfolded with wax plugs in their ears, being tortured by a man with an electric prod. Any boy who screams is plunged into a tub full of freezing water and given more electric shocks.http://www.streetnewsservice.org/news/2012/may/feed-329/german-sect-victims-seek-escape-from-chilean-nightmare-past.aspx14/05/2012Tensions between The Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) and the African National Congress (ANC) are at an all-time high after the union’s recent call for an all-out ban on labour brokers was refused. This was despite a mass protest against labour broking, which Cosatu deemed “more evil than slavery”. Absent from the protest were domestic workers; a largely un-unionised labour force which is one of the most vulnerable to exploitation by unscrupulous labour brokers.http://www.streetnewsservice.org/news/2012/may/feed-329/“modern-day-slavery”-for-sa’s-domestic-workers.aspx14/05/2012Thousands of people have been evicted from their homes in Mogadishu by Somalia’s UN-backed Transitional Federal Government (TFG).http://www.streetnewsservice.org/news/2012/may/feed-329/un-backed-government-evicts-thousands-in-mogadishu.aspx14/05/2012Tuberkulose er en alvorlig sygdom, som tidligere kostede mange mennesker livet. I dag har man en effektiv behandling. Men det er ikke alle steder i landet, hvor man behandler tuberkulose. Eftersom tuberkulose er en sygdom, der rammer socialt skævt, er det ikke usædvanligt, at patienterne er hjemløse. Tuberkulosen er nemlig på fremmarch i Danmark. Der er 400 nye tilfælde om året, og læger som arbejder med smittespredning er meget bekymrede over udviklingen.http://www.streetnewsservice.org/news/2012/may/feed-329/paa-landevejen-med-tuberkulose.aspx10/05/2012Hjælpeorganisationer efterlyser konkrete initiativer til at bekæmpe hjemløshed, mens Danmark har formandskabet i EU.http://www.streetnewsservice.org/news/2012/may/feed-329/masser-af-ord-–-nul-handling.aspx10/05/2012Konkurrencen fra Østen betyder færre opgaver i fængsler og arresthusehttp://www.streetnewsservice.org/news/2012/may/feed-329/indsatte-mangler-arbejde.aspx10/05/2012V roce 2008 se Belachew Girma smál tři hodiny a šest minut v kuse. V Etiopii, kde není mnoho důvodů ke smíchu, založil první africkou školu smíchu. „Dokud se člověk směje, není chudý,“ říká ‚Pán smíchu‘.http://www.streetnewsservice.org/news/2012/may/feed-328/smích-je-v-etiopii-nejlepší-lék.aspx07/05/2012Cada primeira segunda-feira do mês apresentamos a editores uma seleção de contos do site de serviço de notícias. O pacote pode ser usado para preencher as páginas internacionais em seu jornal de rua. Basta clicar em "download article” (baixar artigo) e “download image galeries” (baixar galeria de imagens) para reimprimir o material. Versões em outros idiomas estão disponíveis abaixo do texto.http://www.streetnewsservice.org/news/2012/may/feed-328/inspirando-o-mundo-(maio-2012).aspx07/05/2012W pierwszy poniedziałek każdego miesiąca prezentujemy wydawcom wybór krótkich tekstów z naszej strony internetowej, które mogą zostać wykorzystane do zapełnienia działu z artykułami ze świata w waszej gazecie. Żeby przedrukować materiał, wystarczy kliknąć w „pobierz artykuł” i „pobierz obrazy z galerii”. Inne wersje językowe artykułów są dostępne pod tekstem.http://www.streetnewsservice.org/news/2012/may/feed-328/inspirując-świat-(maj-2012).aspx07/05/2012Hver første mandag i måneden tilbyr vi redaktørene et utvalg korte saker fra websiden vår. Pakken kan brukes for å fylle de internasjonale sidene i din gateavis. Ganske enkelt klikk ‘last ned artikkelen’ og ‘last ned bildegalleriet’ for å trykke stoffet. Sakene er også tilgjengelig på andre språk under teksten.http://www.streetnewsservice.org/news/2012/may/feed-328/inspirer-verden-(mai-2012).aspx07/05/2012毎月第一月曜日に、ニュースサイトから集めた短い記事を、編集者の皆さまにお届けします。これらの記事は、皆さまのストリートペーパーの国際面などに掲載していただくことが可能です。データを転載するには、「この記事をダウンロード（download article）」または「画像イメージをダウンロード(download gallery images)」をクリックして下さい。他言語のバージョンは、テキストの下よりダウンロードが可能です。http://www.streetnewsservice.org/news/2012/may/feed-328/inspiring-the-world-(2012-五月).aspx07/05/2012Chaque premier lundi du mois, nous présentons à nos éditeurs une brève sélection de quelques-unes des histoires qui figurent sur notre site Internet INSP News Service. Ce pack peut-être utilisé afin de gonfler les pages internationales de votre propre journal. Pour cela il vous suffit tout simplement de cliquer sur « télécharger l’article » et « télécharger la galerie d’images ». Les articles disponibles dans plusieurs langues sont indiqués en fin de texte. http://www.streetnewsservice.org/news/2012/may/feed-328/inspirer-le-monde-(mai-2012).aspx07/05/2012Dimitris Christoulas’ public suicide in Athens was a shocking reminder of the tragic human cost the economic crisis has caused, and as employment levels drop across Europe, it is the suicide rate that is on the rise.http://www.streetnewsservice.org/news/2012/may/feed-328/suicides-soar-during-financial-crisis.aspx07/05/2012Although the rain is widely welcomed in Zambia and marks the onset of the planting season for the nation's farmers, millions of people dread the annual downpours that bring death, disease and destruction.http://www.streetnewsservice.org/news/2012/may/feed-328/zambia’s-floods-wash-away-life-and-hope.aspx07/05/2012Canada’s aboriginal teens are failing behind their peers when it comes to high school graduation rates. Racism and lack of appropriate education are key causes of this disparity. http://www.streetnewsservice.org/news/2012/may/feed-328/aboriginal-students-face-barriers-to-graduation.aspx07/05/2012The Roma community are one of the most persecuted ethnic groups in the world, driven away and ignored by many, but not by German street papers. Hamburg publication Hinz&Kunzt has 50 Roma vendors, and visited colleague paper fiftyfifty in Dusseldorf, where 700 Roma are selling the paper and 25 now have been housed. http://www.streetnewsservice.org/news/2012/may/feed-328/german-street-papers-offer-safe-haven-for-roma.aspx07/05/2012Associated with health and beauty, mineral water is a massive business handling hundreds of millions of dollars in the world. Have you ever asked yourself what are the real benefits of not drinking tap water and buying plastic bottles made from PET that take years to decompose? Patricia Serrano takes a look into this premise, discovering things that may surprise you. http://www.streetnewsservice.org/news/2012/may/feed-328/to-drink-or-not-to-drink-mineral-or-tap-water.aspx07/05/2012Bajada: asociada a la salud y la belleza, el agua mineral es un super negocio que mueve cientos de millones en el mundo. ¿te preguntaste alguna vez cuáles son los beneficios reales de no tomar agua de la canilla y comprar botellas de pet que tardan años en degradarse? Patricia serrano se zambulló en un manantial de información, averiguó, se sorprendió y cuenta. http://www.streetnewsservice.org/news/2012/may/feed-328/ser-o-no-ser-¿agua-mineral-o-agua-de-la-canilla.aspx07/05/2012In the U.S. women are paid 77 cents for every dollar a man earns. In Indiana the wage gap can mean a woman may earn as much as $256 (USD) per week. For Latina and African-American woman the wage gap is even greater. http://www.streetnewsservice.org/news/2012/may/feed-328/women-are-worth-less-in-indiana.aspx07/05/2012German-Nigerian singer Nneka is a woman who has faced much hardship in her life, indeed her moto is ‘life never runs smoothly’. However, despite the many challenges she has faced she has made a successful music career for herself after fleeing Nigeria and starting a new life in Germany. http://www.streetnewsservice.org/news/2012/may/feed-328/“life-never-runs-smoothly”.aspx07/05/2012For a few Brits sick of the daily rat-race, exhausting commutes, terrible weather and economic turmoil, a new life in Eastern Europe is becoming ever-more appealing. One ex-pat explains why he packed his bags for the ‘white city’ of Belgrade and never looked back.http://www.streetnewsservice.org/news/2012/may/feed-328/why-brits-pack-their-bags-for-eastern-europe.aspx07/05/2012When Mitt Romney fastened a carrier containing Seamus, the Romneys’ Irish setter, to the roof of the family car, he could not have predicted the firestorm of controversy that the event would ignite almost 30 years later. http://www.streetnewsservice.org/news/2012/may/feed-328/mitt-is-mean-why-romney-is-still-dogged-by-seamus.aspx07/05/2012For 30 years, Feisal Fakharudin lived a heroin addict's life, sleeping on streets, getting into trouble with police and rotating in and out of drug treatment centers.http://www.streetnewsservice.org/news/2012/may/feed-328/malaysia-mosque-a-source-of-hope-for-heroin-addicts.aspx07/05/2012U.S. community health centers that cater to the poor and uninsured saw their patients' ranks swell by nearly 18 percent from 2008 to 2011 as job loss left more Americans without health insurance.http://www.streetnewsservice.org/news/2012/may/feed-328/us-health-centers-for-poor,-uninsured-see-ranks-swell.aspx07/05/2012While athletes around the world enter their final stages of training for the 30th Olympic Games in London this July, Saudi Arabia stands alone as the only country that has banned females from participating.http://www.streetnewsservice.org/news/2012/may/feed-328/another-olympics-sans-saudi-women.aspx07/05/2012Sexual harassment of school-going girls is one factor that may prevent this Pacific island nation from achieving the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) of eliminating gender disparity in education by 2015.http://www.streetnewsservice.org/news/2012/may/feed-328/sexual-abuse-keeps-girls-out-of-school.aspx07/05/2012William once was part of America’s workforce. He worked most of his life; a life that also included bouts with substance abuse and law enforcement. Yet this 55-year-old, who is now homeless, still dreams of returning to work. As a first step, he has become a vendor for Indianapolis’ new street paper Homeward Bound.http://www.streetnewsservice.org/news/2012/may/feed-328/vendor-spotlight-william-(homeward-bound,-usa).aspx07/05/2012On every first Monday of the month we present editors with a selection of short stories from the news service website. The package can be used to fill the international pages in your street paper. Simply click ‘download article’ and ‘download gallery images’ to reprint the material. Other language versions are available below the text.http://www.streetnewsservice.org/news/2012/may/feed-328/inspiring-the-world-(may-2012).aspx07/05/2012Každý prvý pondelok v mesiaci máme pre eidtorov pripravených niekoľko krátkych správ z wevoje stránky spravodajského servisu, ktoré môžu byť použité vo vašich pouličných novinách. Stačí si kliknúť na "stiahnuť článok" alebo "stiahnuť obrázky z galérie" a vytlačiť materiál. Verzie v iných jazykoch nájdete pod textom. http://www.streetnewsservice.org/news/2012/may/feed-328/inšpiruj-svet-(máj-2012).aspx07/05/2012Svakog prvog ponedeljka u mesecu upoznajemo urednike sa izborom kratkih priča sa sajta servisa vesti. Paket može da se koristi za popunjavanje međunarodnih stranica u vašim uličnim novinama. Jednostavno kliknite na „ preuzmi članak“ i „preuzmi galeriju slika“ da bi preštampali materijal. Verzije na drugim jezicima su dostupne ispod teksta.http://www.streetnewsservice.org/news/2012/may/feed-328/inspirišući-svet-(maj-2012).aspx07/05/2012Why is it that in North America, in every city, there are countless young homeless, desperate citizens? Youth who fall through the cracks and end up on the street. The machinery goes to work when a person is in trouble in order to make a profit off their backs - The system doesn't seek to "help" the homeless youth but to profit from their misery. Many of us have heard this before. You don't see it in the mainstream media so much - but in underground zines, and also, but not so often anymore, "street papers" too. http://www.streetnewsservice.org/news/2012/may/feed-330/the-industries-of-misery.aspx07/05/2012In front of a rundown building in central Athens, four men and a young woman pull a huge pot and bottle of gas from the trunk of a car and set them up on the pavement.http://www.streetnewsservice.org/news/2012/may/feed-328/election-brings-no-hope-to-athens-soup-kitchens.aspx04/05/2012In Germany many full-time workers cannot make a living from their wage and risk slipping into poverty. With this problem affecting both temporary and permanent staff, German street paper FREIeBURGER finds that there are possible political solutions to poverty, despite the country’s increasingly uncertain economic situation. http://www.streetnewsservice.org/news/2012/may/feed-328/germany’s-6-million-low-wage-workers-at-risk-of-poverty.aspx03/05/2012W prawicowym obozie szkoleniowym, młodzi Południowoafrykańczycy szkolą się do walki o swoje afrykanerskie dziedzictwo – i przeciwko tęczowemu narodowi Nelsona Mandeli. http://www.streetnewsservice.org/news/2012/may/feed-328/tylko-dla-najbielszych-w-afrykanerskim-obozie-szkoleniowym.aspx03/05/2012Na putu odrastanja, naši roditelji često zanemaruju činjenicu da igračke koje koristimo za zabavu utiču na razvijanje naših sposobnosti. Glavna vodilja im je naša sklonost ka omiljenoj igrački, pa se u odnosu na našu reakciju postavlja pretpostavka o interesovanjima i budućem profesionalnom opredeljenju. http://www.streetnewsservice.org/news/2012/may/feed-328/neki-novi-klinci.aspx03/05/2012Como parte de su gira “la ventura” pasó por la argentina y como siempre, tocó y cantó a pura alegría y estadio lleno. en mendoza, apoyó la causa contra la minería a cielo abierto. en neuquén, acompañó los 10 años de zanón. manuel cullen escuchó este diálogo y cuenta que manu chao rechaza la dictadura de la novedad y los insostenibles patrones de consumo. crónica de un artista rebelde y peregrino. http://www.streetnewsservice.org/news/2012/april/feed-327/manu-chao-“el-futuro-que-yo-sueño-es-un-futuro-de-compartir”.aspx30/04/2012Scottish-based charity the International Network of Street Papers (INSP) presented its latest innovation, INSP Digital, during its event 'INSPiring Business Success in the Digital Age' at Glasgow's City Chambers last week. http://www.streetnewsservice.org/news/2012/april/feed-327/inspiring-the-future-of-street-papers.aspx30/04/2012Bridging the gap between law enforcement and service providers is the theme of “Searching Out Solutions,” a recent government report outlining potential solutions to the criminalization of “acts of living” by people experiencing street homelessness. Throughout the country, different jurisdictions have laws that criminalize behavior like sleeping, eating and panhandling in public spaces. But, the costs of such laws are too high, the report says, for both local governments and those arrested. http://www.streetnewsservice.org/news/2012/april/feed-327/federal-report-shows-alternatives-to-criminalization-of-homelessness.aspx30/04/2012Within a decade, "most" of the global population could have access to affordable basic health care – if a series of "ambitious" programmes are put into action around the world. This is according to a new report released by the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR).http://www.streetnewsservice.org/news/2012/april/feed-327/majority-may-soon-enjoy-us-state-run-health-coverage.aspx30/04/2012With 35 students, the first secondary school specifically for transvestites and other members of sexual minorities who face discrimination in mainstream schools opened in March in the Argentine capital.http://www.streetnewsservice.org/news/2012/april/feed-327/first-school-for-transvestites-opens-in-buenos-aires.aspx30/04/2012The new state law aimed at evicting the Occupy Nashville encampment outside the Tennessee State Capitol is but one more in a long string of laws that have a negative impact on people experiencing homelessness, according to advocates for the homeless community who organized the “Rally for the Right to Exist” protest on April 1 at Legislative Plaza.http://www.streetnewsservice.org/news/2012/april/feed-327/homeless-advocates-'rally-for-the-right-to-exist'.aspx30/04/2012Dubbed “Flannery O’Connor with a telecaster” by the online magazine Twang Nation, Lindsay Fuller is no longer the Northwest’s little secret. Now based in Seattle, Wash., Fuller came of age in Birmingham, Ala., and the South still resonates in her raw, warm and foreboding lyrics, aggrandized by her distinct vocal delivery and a voice that has been likened to Lucinda Williams and Nick Cave. http://www.streetnewsservice.org/news/2012/april/feed-327/lindsay-fuller-‘play-your-heart-out,-and-hope-that-someone-is-listening’.aspx30/04/2012Years after the Neighbourhood Watch Scheme was introduced in Malawi to help police ease crime in the community, some groups claim to be doing good, yet an overwhelming number are abusing their positions to intimidate and steal from community members. http://www.streetnewsservice.org/news/2012/april/feed-327/neighborhood-watch-men-law-enforcers-or-thieves.aspx30/04/2012Horst, a vendor for street paper Hinz&Kunzt in Hamburg, discusses his battle with alcoholism and celebrates the landmarks in his life that has led to his full recovery, including his plans to get married.http://www.streetnewsservice.org/news/2012/april/feed-327/a-street-paper-vendor’s-letter-to-himself.aspx30/04/2012The myth among many Americans is that publicly funded housing is easily available to people who experience homelessness, have low incomes or disabilities, or are seniors. But, even though federal, state and local governments pump billions of dollars into housing programs each year, finding publicly funded housing is often a process that takes many years and leaves people with a need to find, or create, a temporary solution. http://www.streetnewsservice.org/news/2012/april/feed-327/affordable-housing-hold-up-in-nashville.aspx30/04/2012When singer Manu Chao visited Argentina on his latest tour, his gigs were packed with his usual happiness. But he also made political statements. In Mendoza, he supported the campaign against open-pit mining. In Neuquén, he performed at an event celebrating 10 years of factory workers' rights. Here, he explains why.http://www.streetnewsservice.org/news/2012/april/feed-327/manu-chao-'the-future-i-dream-of-is-a-future-of-sharing'.aspx30/04/2012When depression hits a person, the effects on family members are often underestimated. And when it involves young people, the impact on parents in particular can be huge. "I’m inconsistent. I fail. Do I feel isolated, battle-worn, guilt-ridden and terrified all the time? Tick, tick, tick, and absolutely." http://www.streetnewsservice.org/news/2012/april/feed-327/making-silence---when-your-teenage-child-fights-depression.aspx30/04/2012Not so long ago, in Burundi, both immediate and extended families vouched for all of their members, and their identities. Growing up at your uncle and aunt’s house only made tighter the links between family members who descended from a single ancestry. http://www.streetnewsservice.org/news/2012/april/feed-327/social-fabric-torn,-burundian-youth-perished.aspx30/04/2012A football that bobbed onto the shore of a remote Alaska island is likely the first salvageable debris from last year's Japanese tsunami that could be returned to its owner, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.http://www.streetnewsservice.org/news/2012/april/feed-327/football-swept-up-by-japanese-tsunami-found-in-alaska.aspx27/04/2012Bans on full-face veils in France and Belgium and a failure by other European countries to stop employers from enforcing informal dress codes means Muslim women are being denied jobs and education, Amnesty International said.http://www.streetnewsservice.org/news/2012/april/feed-327/amnesty-says-veil-bans-rob-muslims-of-jobs,-education.aspx27/04/2012More than 20 mobile home manufacturers have agreed to pay $14.8 million to thousands of U.S. hurricane victims who said they were harmed by formaldehyde in the trailers.http://www.streetnewsservice.org/news/2012/april/feed-326/thousands-housed-in-trailers-after-katrina-may-get-payments.aspx23/04/2012Need more protein in your diet? Try adding worms to your chocolate muffin recipe mix, or spice up a mushroom risotto with a sprinkling of grasshoppers.http://www.streetnewsservice.org/news/2012/april/feed-326/dutch-bug-cookbook-launched-to-stir-taste-for-insects.aspx23/04/2012Forty-seven years after the Equal Pay Act was signed into law, women in the United States are still struggling against wage discrimination in the workplace.http://www.streetnewsservice.org/news/2012/april/feed-326/only-four-fifths-of-men's-pay-for-women.aspx23/04/2012Hundreds of birch trees from the biggest Nazi death camp, at Auschwitz-Birkenau in Poland, are dotted around Berlin as a living memorial of this dark chapter in Germany's past.http://www.streetnewsservice.org/news/2012/april/feed-326/berlin-biennale-showcases-contemporary-political-art.aspx23/04/2012As many as 140,000 Americans nationwide will get their Social Security or Supplemental Security Income (SSI) benefits restored as a result of an order issued by Judge Sidney H. Stein in a federal court in Manhattan on April 13, 2012. The benefits in question date back to October 2006 and may total $1 billion. http://www.streetnewsservice.org/news/2012/april/feed-326/us-court-restores-social-security-benefits-for-thousands.aspx23/04/2012Candidates in the French presidential election are coming to use the word ‘immigrant’ like a ball to be kicked around from one side to another, analysts say. "Boot all the immigrants out, and everything will be fine. That’s the seductive and deceptive message from some candidates," says French professor Nonna Mayer.http://www.streetnewsservice.org/news/2012/april/feed-326/when-immigrants-become-the-football.aspx23/04/2012Over the past few years, the political landscape of the Middle East was wholly transformed by the diffusion of social media across the region. Accounting for 50-65 percent of the region's population, young Muslims quickly embraced these new platforms of mass communication and soon thereafter, they became leaders of revolutions.http://www.streetnewsservice.org/news/2012/april/feed-326/tweeting-democracy-across-the-arab-world.aspx23/04/2012The future is uncertain for the gregarious Alhasairi family, living in a downtown apartment block battle-scarred from last year’s overthrow of the Gaddafi regime. Like countless of similar cases across Libya, the property itself is now contested, as the original owners want to return home.http://www.streetnewsservice.org/news/2012/april/feed-326/libyans-now-battle-over-housing.aspx23/04/2012An art exhibition titled ‘Visible Words from Invisible People’ which illuminates the lives of young homeless people in the English city of Wakefield, also shines a light on homeless issues across the country.http://www.streetnewsservice.org/news/2012/april/feed-326/illuminating-art-exhibition-gives-voice-to-homeless.aspx23/04/2012The non-profit Dance for All has changed hundreds of young South Africans’ lives through the magic of movement. Co-founder and former principal dancer Phillip Boyd believes the discipline required for a life of dance can help keep kids off the streets and away from drugs: “Dance is hope and that’s what we provide.” http://www.streetnewsservice.org/news/2012/april/feed-326/steps-that-make-dreams-come-true.aspx23/04/2012While Zambia’ male football team may have brought home the 2012 African Nations Cup, the country’s women teams are also enjoying success on the pitch, yet their triumphs are going unrecorded by Zambia’s media and a lack of funding and support from the county’s Football Association is holding back female footballers. http://www.streetnewsservice.org/news/2012/april/feed-326/zambia’s-‘beautiful-game’-remains-one-sided.aspx23/04/2012The abolishment of prohibition zones once used by police in areas of Copenhagen finally allows the city’s homeless population, drug addicts and prostitutes a basic right: to walk the streets of Denmark’s capital freely, without incurring fines.http://www.streetnewsservice.org/news/2012/april/feed-326/copenhagen’s-prohibition-zones-abolished.aspx23/04/2012Nashville’s lack of public restrooms and Tennessee’s public indecency and indecent exposure law pose a problem for the city’s homeless community. When, for lack of any other option, they choose to answer nature’s call in public, they do so at the risk of citation or arrest. http://www.streetnewsservice.org/news/2012/april/feed-326/nashville’s-potty-problems.aspx23/04/2012In Boston, local organizations have been collaborating to help residents stay in their home post-foreclosure, through group actions and protests, lobbying and legal advice.http://www.streetnewsservice.org/news/2012/april/feed-326/how-bostonians-are-keeping-house.aspx23/04/2012Chicago’s Anti-Eviction Campaign is fighting to keep people who are being foreclosed in their homes and working to connect homeless people with vacant properties.http://www.streetnewsservice.org/news/2012/april/feed-326/chicago-campaigns-for-right-to-a-home.aspx23/04/2012Leading US activist, Barbara Poppe, speaks about the key issues facing America’s homeless, including their lack of housing rights, the link between criminalization of the homeless and the violence and hate crimes they often suffer as a result, and the continuing battle to end chronic homelessness in the US by 2015. http://www.streetnewsservice.org/news/2012/april/feed-326/homeless-czar-speaks-out.aspx23/04/2012Psykiatriambulansen i Bergen har vært på hjul siden 2005, som eneste av sitt slag. Bilen er spesialbygget til akuttpsykiatriske uttrykninger og ambulansepersonellet har spesialkompetanse innen psykisk helsearbeid. Flere prehospitale aktører, både nasjonalt og internasjonalt, ser nå til byen blant de syv fjell med tanke på å kopiere suksessen. http://www.streetnewsservice.org/news/2012/april/feed-326/en-helt-(u)vanlig-dag-paa-jobben.aspx23/04/2012Last year, Rosemarie, a street vendor for German street paper FREIeBÜRGER', made camp under the Kersten Miles Bridge in the centre of Hamburg along with several other of the city’s homeless. Despite angering local politicians who took steps to drive out the homeless, the local community rallied around Rosemarie and her companions and successful protested their right to stay. . http://www.streetnewsservice.org/news/2012/may/feed-328/under-the-bridge.aspx23/04/2012Hailing from Bamako, Mali’s rapidly growing yet impoverished capital city, blind duo Amadou and Mariam have found world-wide acclaim, including a Grammy nomination, as the biggest-selling music act to have emerged from Africa this century.http://www.streetnewsservice.org/news/2012/april/feed-327/married-to-music.aspx22/04/2012Evictions, up to 200 a day, have become a symbol of Spain's 5-year economic crisis, started by a collapse in the housing and construction industry that put millions out of work. This article is accompanied by a selection of powerful photographs from Reuters which document the difficult and traumatic experiences of eviction faced by hundreds of immigrants in Spain every day. http://www.streetnewsservice.org/news/2012/april/feed-325/photo-essay-facing-eviction.aspx16/04/2012Fighting foreclosures and evictions, activists say, gives the disparate movement a unifying focus and embodies its anti-Wall Street message. It also has offered a way for Occupy – up till now a largely white, middle-class movement – to broaden its reach to minorities.http://www.streetnewsservice.org/news/2012/april/feed-325/in-foreclosures,-occupy-groups-see-a-unifying-cause.aspx16/04/2012At Fallujah hospital they cannot offer any statistics on children born with birth defects – there are just too many. Parents don’t want to talk. "Families bury their newborn babies after they die without telling anyone," says hospital spokesman Nadim al-Hadidi. "It’s all too shameful for them."http://www.streetnewsservice.org/news/2012/april/feed-325/iraqi-children-victimised-like-laboratory-mice.aspx16/04/2012Since 2008, over 20 U.S. companies have imported illegally logged timber worth millions from the Peruvian Amazon, charged a multi-year investigative report released Tuesday by the Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA).http://www.streetnewsservice.org/news/2012/april/feed-325/us-still-importing-illegal-timber.aspx16/04/2012Celebrity philosopher Alain de Botton discusses why atheists should still be interested in religion and why McDonalds is a bit like the Catholic Church. http://www.streetnewsservice.org/news/2012/april/feed-325/alain-de-botton-on-‘religion-for-atheists’.aspx16/04/2012It is a testament to her strength that Lily O'Brien is here today; let alone that she has told her heartbreaking story in a new book, ‘The Girl Nobody Wants’. She wrote it to ensure that victims of institutionalised abuse in Ireland are not forgotten: “These children had no human rights. So many of them are dead now, from suicide, drugs, drink; thousands of children. People are not talking about the dead.” http://www.streetnewsservice.org/news/2012/april/feed-325/memoir-exposes-ireland’s-history-of-child-abuse.aspx16/04/2012Abigail Washburn’s original brand of folk pop effortlessly blends the sounds and traditions of American and Chinese culture. She speaks about the lure of American folk, the lyrical nature of Mandarin, taking her banjo to China and the healing and unifying power of music.http://www.streetnewsservice.org/news/2012/april/feed-325/the-folk-pop-fusion-of-east-and-west.aspx16/04/2012A new documentary recognizes the remarkable success one of the bestselling street papers in the INSP network. Chris Roberts’ documentary Street Paper tells the inspirational story of The Contributor and the people behind it, but the real stars are its vendors, through whose eyes the public can witness daily experiences of life on the streets. http://www.streetnewsservice.org/news/2012/april/feed-325/documentary-celebrates-street-paper-success.aspx16/04/2012Climate change is a source of concern for people in communities all over the world. Global temperatures continue to rise, floods are becoming more common and hurricanes and heavy snowfalls continue to plague some western countries.http://www.streetnewsservice.org/news/2012/april/feed-325/coming-to-terms-with-climate-change.aspx16/04/2012What would you say to your 16 year old self if you could go back in time? John Suchet, a British radio and TV presenter, author and journalist offers his teenage self some words of wisdom. http://www.streetnewsservice.org/news/2012/april/feed-325/letter-to-my-younger-self-john-suchet.aspx16/04/2012One of America’s foremost literary forces is Marge Piercy, a woman who lives in a tiny village on Cape Cod and has been writing strong, powerful works of fiction and poetry for five decades. http://www.streetnewsservice.org/news/2012/april/feed-325/marge-piercy-on-feminist-fiction.aspx16/04/2012Prisoners at the Ohio State Penitentiary went on a successful hunger strike for better living conditions and in solidarity with the Occupy movement. http://www.streetnewsservice.org/news/2012/april/feed-325/ohio-prisoners-stage-hunger-strike-with-occupy-for-prisoners.aspx16/04/2012Tuition fees in the United States have risen dramatically in the past three decades and the amount of student debt has soared. As higher education becomes increasingly necessary to secure stable employment, the stakes are particularly high for those on a low-income.http://www.streetnewsservice.org/news/2012/april/feed-325/the-costs-of-higher-education.aspx16/04/2012Advocates warn that continued welfare cuts in Washington DC will harm thousands of poor children, whose struggling families depend on benefits, such as the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, to meet their most basic needs.http://www.streetnewsservice.org/news/2012/april/feed-325/impact-of-welfare-cuts-causes-worry.aspx16/04/2012