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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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Laws must stop abuse of mental health procedures

Pacific Standard Time — Thursday, October 25, 2012

Laws must stop abuse of mental health procedures: Because of the long-established compulsory mental health checkups for people suspected of being mentally ill, as well as poor legislation in this area, accusations of psychosis have sometimes been used as a tool for retaliation. Cases involving ...

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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Philosophy study suggests 'negligent racism' shaped global Covid-19 response

Pacific Standard Time — Tuesday, April 15, 2025

The researchers introduce a powerful concept – negligent racism – highlighting that policy decisions can be racist without intent. Instead, they say ... View article...

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A basic income support grant can address extreme poverty and inequality in South Africa

Pacific Standard Time — Monday, May 05, 2025

Economic modelling suggests that a basic income grant for all individuals aged between 18 and 59 could significantly reduce poverty and inequality ... View article...

Social mobility is key to tackling regional inequalities and unlocking economic growth

Pacific Standard Time — Monday, May 05, 2025

In the decade since, inequality , particularly in terms of opportunity, has become embedded. The consequence, socially and politically, has been ... View article...

Employment Equity alone won't fix economic inequality

Pacific Standard Time — Monday, May 05, 2025

He stated that the introduction of the employment equity law managed to reduce the inequality of workers in the workplace. This included the ... View article...

Cuomo was a same-sex marriage champion. He's not courting LGBTQ+ votes now

Pacific Standard Time — Tuesday, May 06, 2025

“We interpreted it to mean that the LGBTQ community doesn't mean jack shit to him,” said Joe Jourdan, Lambda's president. “Ignoring Lambda and ... 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...

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...

What we know about caste inequality in India

Pacific Standard Time — Monday, May 05, 2025

Whether or not the census schedule is significantly altered to capture caste-wise economic inequality – the census does collect some information ... View article...

Smithsonian National Museum of African Art delays LGBTQ Pride exhibit

Pacific Standard Time — Wednesday, May 07, 2025

Pride and Belonging in African Art” was originally scheduled to coincide with the WorldPride celebration in Washington. View article...

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