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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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Teenage Marijuana Use May Hurt Future IQ

Pacific Standard Time — Tuesday, August 28, 2012

Teenage Marijuana Use May Hurt Future IQ: Though the study was conducted among New Zealand young people, the findings could be extended to adolescents in the United States as well. According to statistics released in June by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, American ...

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How Inequality and Passivity Are Eroding South Africa's Youth Potential and Threatening the 4IR

Pacific Standard Time — Monday, June 23, 2025

It threatens to sabotage South Africa's Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) ambitions before they begin. In a society as unequal as ours, inequality ... View article...

How community radio affects gender equality

Pacific Standard Time — Monday, June 23, 2025

... inequality at scale in developing countries ... The evidence makes a case for leveraging grassroots media to address gender inequality at scale in ... View article...

What's the secret to a more innovative workforce? New research points to LGBTQ+ inclusion

Pacific Standard Time — Monday, June 23, 2025

A recent study by researchers from Aalto University and the University of Vaasa revealed a strong link between LGBTQ -friendly corporate policies and ... View article...

US wealth inequality in 2022: A modest reversal at the top, persistent challenges below

Pacific Standard Time — Monday, June 23, 2025

The causes and consequences of income and wealth inequality are central concerns in economic research and policy discussions. View article...

What Pride Month Means in 2025

Pacific Standard Time — Monday, June 23, 2025

The current assaults on LGBTQ rights make it essential that communicators make sure they are fluent in the fight against those assaults. L. View article...

Economic inequality and the erosion of democracy

Pacific Standard Time — Monday, June 23, 2025

In economics there are different ways of measuring inequality . The Gini coefficient is an average measure of inequality across the whole population. A ... View article...

Carmel teens organized their own Pride festival. 5 years later, it's one of Indiana's biggest

Pacific Standard Time — Monday, June 23, 2025

In the span of just four weeks, they organized an LGBT pride festival for about 2,000 people. Indianapolis already had a longstanding monthlong ... View article...

'The Better Life Is Out of Reach': The Chinese Dream Is Slipping Away

Pacific Standard Time — Monday, June 23, 2025

“If you have to struggle, it means you're not good enough.” Anxiety over inequality is growing in China. Children of privilege inherit not only wealth ... View article...

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Anti-Transgender Bill Advances in Puerto Rico, Seeking to Ban Lifesaving Care for Youth ...

Pacific Standard Time — Wednesday, July 09, 2025

... LGBTQ puertorriqueñas. To stay informed about this bill and other pending legislative and legal updates, follow GLAAD on social media to keep ... View article...

20 years since 7/7 bombings: 'No to terrorism, no to war, no to racism'

Pacific Standard Time — Thursday, July 10, 2025

During rush hour on the morning of 7 July 2005, four suicide bombers attacked three London Underground trains and a bus. View article...

Ronald Goldman's The Empathy Evolution Explores the Origins of Violence, Racism ...

Pacific Standard Time — Thursday, July 10, 2025

Ronald Goldman delivers a profound and timely exploration of our ongoing struggles with violence, racism , political corruption, and mental illness. View article...

Pope Leo will bless same-sex unions despite having once decried the “homosexual lifestyle”

Pacific Standard Time — Thursday, July 10, 2025

Leo will continue his predecessor's historic decision allowing priests to honor queer couples, though same-sex marriage remains forbidden. View article...

The role of social connections in mitigating the harms associated with racism and discrimination

Pacific Standard Time — Thursday, July 10, 2025

In 2024, 45% of racialized Canadians aged 15 years and older reported that they faced racism and discrimination in the past five years. Eight in ten ( ... View article...

Vanderbilt LGBTQ Health lays off employees, cuts 'Trans Buddy Program

Pacific Standard Time — Thursday, July 10, 2025

LGBTQ Health advisory board accuses medical center of 'violence'. The Vanderbilt Program for LGBTQ Health recently laid off five staff members and ... View article...

House Democratic leaders call on GOP congressman to apologize over 'unhinged, racist ...

Pacific Standard Time — Thursday, July 10, 2025

House Democratic leaders call on GOP congressman to apologize over 'unhinged, racist and Islamophobic' attack on Ilhan Omar. View article...

It's time to scrap 'women in leadership' programmes

Pacific Standard Time — Wednesday, July 09, 2025

They dress up inequality as a confidence issue, a gravitas issue, a resilience issue. They repackage systemic failure as something women need to ... View article...

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