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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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Afghan shrine is haven for the mentally ill

Pacific Standard Time — Wednesday, October 24, 2012

Afghan shrine is haven for the mentally ill

Afghan shrine is haven for the mentally ill. Some traditionalists believe that those with mental disorders will be healed after spending 40 days in one of the shrine's 16 tiny concrete cells. A mentally ill man lies chained in a concrete cell in the ...

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Left behind by politicians

Pacific Standard Time — Thursday, April 24, 2025

Inequality is the elephant in the room. It is behind every major debate issue: tariffs, national security, public safety, affordability, and climate ... View article...

Killing of Indigenous Boy Suggests Racist Violence is Alive and Well in Australia

Pacific Standard Time — Thursday, April 24, 2025

... racism since Australia's colonisation in the late 18th century. The Latest Incident. Aboriginal teenager Cassius Turvey was the victim of a brutal ... View article...

Reducing diversity, equity and inclusion to a catchphrase undermines its true purpose

Pacific Standard Time — Thursday, April 24, 2025

When used as an abbreviation, DEI's role in tackling racism and bias becomes susceptible to political manipulation and dismantling. View article...

Lebanon crisis driving parents to seek unregulated “shadow” education, study shows

Pacific Standard Time — Thursday, April 24, 2025

The government's ongoing neglect of public education is intensifying social inequality , experts have warned. ... inequalities and widening the gap ... View article...

Parents Object to LGBTQ Books

Pacific Standard Time — Thursday, April 24, 2025

... LGBTQ themed books in an elementary school curriculum. Constitutional law expert Harold Krent, a professor at the Chicago-Kent College of Law ... View article...

New survey shows the extent of class privilege in UK journalism

Pacific Standard Time — Thursday, April 24, 2025

What is astonishing, though, is the scarcity of empirical data that could help us better understand the extent to which class inequality affects ... View article...

Poverty: the eternal companion of globalism - The rise of global inequality

Pacific Standard Time — Monday, April 14, 2025

What kind of fight against inequality and poverty in the Global South can we speak of, when in 2018 the combined assets of TNCs' overseas branches ... View article...

Iowa Republican wants Supreme Court to overturn same sex marriage & hand control to states

Pacific Standard Time — Thursday, May 08, 2025

A statehouse GOP lawmaker from eastern Iowa wants the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn the case that legalized same-sex marriage in America. State Sen. Sandy Salmon is in her first year in the state Senate after a decade in the Iowa House. She's proposed a few other pieces of anti-LGBTQ+ legislation in the past. View article...

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Iowa Republican wants Supreme Court to overturn same sex marriage & hand control to states

Pacific Standard Time — Thursday, May 08, 2025

A statehouse GOP lawmaker from eastern Iowa wants the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn the case that legalized same-sex marriage in America. State Sen. Sandy Salmon is in her first year in the state Senate after a decade in the Iowa House. She's proposed a few other pieces of anti-LGBTQ+ legislation in the past. View article...

How Discriminatory Criminal History Restrictions are a Barrier to Housing

Pacific Standard Time — Thursday, May 08, 2025

Every year, more than 700,000 people are released from incarceration and seek housing. Because of systemic racism within the criminal legal system ... View article...

A woman who called a Black child a slur has raised a backlash but also thousands of dollars

Pacific Standard Time — Thursday, May 08, 2025

A video showing a Minnesota woman at a playground admitting to using a racist slur against a Black child has garnered millions of views. View article...

Systemic failings and racism uncovered at Wales' largest hospital, review finds

Pacific Standard Time — Thursday, May 08, 2025

Incidents of theft, drug taking and racism have been reported at Wales' largest hospital, a report has found. A review of the operating theatres ... View article...

This Isn't a Flaw in the System—It Is the System

Pacific Standard Time — Thursday, May 08, 2025

... racism . The systems around African-Americans were not designed to uplift but rather to suppress their existence. To demand equality, justice, and ... View article...

Trans rights bill set to advance in the Colorado Senate, after sponsors address LGBTQ ...

Pacific Standard Time — Thursday, May 08, 2025

A coalition of national LGBTQ legal groups worried the original bill was vulnerable to legal challenges. Last Thursday the Senate Judiciary Committee ... View article...

Who could succeed Pope Francis? We look at 10 possibilities, both LGBTQ-friendly and not

Pacific Standard Time — Wednesday, May 07, 2025

These potential popes range from LGBTQ -friendly, continuing the ... Parolin had a rare LGBTQ -supportive moment in a book published in 2023 ... View article...

Fort Worth most likely city to survive a zombie attack

Pacific Standard Time — Wednesday, May 07, 2025

I get lots of stories pitched to me that are irrelevant, dumb or really uninteresting and have nothing to do with the LGBTQ community. This ... View article...

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