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Updates & Legacy — Stigmabase is a Canadian Non-Governmental & Nonprofit Initiative. Our mission is to inform about stigma around the world and make the data collected accessible for researchers. Stigmabase is very attentive to misinformation and lists only reliable sources. — The marginalization of individuals or categories of individuals is a too common phenomenon. Millions of people are facing this problem around the world and many complex factors are involved.

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America's Smokiest: Pot Use Is "Double" in States Where Medical Marijuana Is ...

Pacific Standard Time — Friday, June 29, 2012

America's Smokiest: Pot Use Is "Double" in States Where Medical Marijuana Is ... : Here's something you can file under the category "you don't say": The rate of marijuana use in states that...

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Stigmabase is a canadian non-profit internet initiative dedicated to informing and raising awareness on the damaging effects of social exclusion and stigma around the world. The marginalization of individuals or categories of individuals is a too common phenomenon. Millions of people are facing this problem around the world and many complex factors are involved.

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Mail sorter loses claim for bullying

Pacific Standard Time — Tuesday, February 17, 2015

Mail sorter loses claim for bullying - The High Court has dismissed a mail sorter's claims she was subjected to a campaign of bullying and harassment which left her “terrified” about ...

Iceland implements gender-neutral blood donor rules

Pacific Standard Time — Thursday, September 10, 2026

is permanently prohibited from donating blood. Iceland is the latest country to lift restrictions for LGBTQ blood donors. The Australian Red Cross ... View article...

Dolly Parton paid for her longtime driver's gender-affirming care: report

Pacific Standard Time — Thursday, September 10, 2026

Parton's support of the LGBTQ community and her kindness to people who worked for her 'wasn't an act,' the editor of her 1994 memoir said after ... View article...

France far right expels policeman member over racist remarks

Pacific Standard Time — Thursday, September 10, 2026

France's main far-right party has expelled a member who is a policeman after body cam footage of him making racist comments sparked outrage ahead ... View article...

How a flock of 'gay rams' escaped the slaughterhouse to rule a New York fashion runway

Pacific Standard Time — Thursday, September 10, 2026

This German farmer saved gay rams from slaughter, turning their wool into high-fashion runway looks that fund global LGBTQ+ rights. View article...

90 percent of LGBTQ groups around the world have lost funding since 2025

Pacific Standard Time — Thursday, September 10, 2026

The New York-based global advocacy group surveyed 229 LGBTQ and intersex rights groups in 94 countries. Forty-nine percent of the organizations that ... View article...

Wrongful convictions are not mere coincidence, says sociology professor in new book

Pacific Standard Time — Thursday, September 10, 2026

Often, research about wrongful convictions studies isolated moments in the criminal justice process, whether it be an arrest, a trial or an exoneration. In her new book, “Crime Fictions: How Racist Lies Built a System of Mass Wrongful Conviction,” Associate Professor of Sociology Nicole Gonzalez Van Cleve challenges View article...

Far-right narratives and global conflict are reaching the classroom, leaders warn

Pacific Standard Time — Thursday, September 10, 2026

How to engage parents and communities when anti- racism work is challenged; How to strengthen leadership accountability and embed anti- racist practice ... View article...

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