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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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Web addiction poses risk to mental health

Pacific Standard Time — Monday, October 15, 2012

Web addiction poses risk to mental health: Reports such as these are why there is a call for the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorder's inclusion of Internet-use disorder as a viable mental illness. People starving their children or children shooting their parents over video games?

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Maryland lawmakers plan to study reparations for slavery

Pacific Standard Time — Thursday, April 03, 2025

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Bullying, racism reported at uni's business school

Pacific Standard Time — Thursday, April 03, 2025

Staff in the University of Otago business school's marketing department have reported low levels of morale as well as bullying and racism , ... 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...

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...

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...

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...

The LGBTQ+ community has always endured. It's more crucial than ever to remember our strengths.

Pacific Standard Time — Thursday, April 03, 2025

The National Coalition for LGBTQ Health — an initiative using federal and local advocacy, education, and research to advance LGBTQ+ health and well- ... 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...

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Rising inequality now a part of nature of India's growth

Pacific Standard Time — Monday, April 28, 2025

Countering the Union government's statement on poverty reduction citing the World Bank's Spring 2025 Poverty and Equity Brief, Congress general ... View article...

School refuses to let high-performing Christian student graduate because she opted out of ...

Pacific Standard Time — Monday, April 28, 2025

At issue is a mandatory LGBTQ component of a health class, which the female student has been opted out of due to religious beliefs. The student, who ... View article...

The government suggests defunding the 988 suicide hotline for LGBTQ+ youth

Pacific Standard Time — Tuesday, April 29, 2025

"Just last year alone, approximately 40% of LGBTQ youth considered suicide," he says, citing data from the most recent survey by The Trevor Project, ... View article...

Racism in pain management causes needless suffering

Pacific Standard Time — Tuesday, April 29, 2025

Racism in pain management causes needless suffering ... Patients from minoritised ethnic groups often report that their pain is dismissed or downplayed ... View article...

Asia's megacities at a crossroads – and other urban transformation stories to read this month

Pacific Standard Time — Monday, April 28, 2025

Dhaka, one of the world's 10 largest cities. Without urgent and inclusive reforms, unchecked urban growth could deepen inequality , according to a new ... View article...

Racism driving social workers to consider leaving

Pacific Standard Time — Tuesday, April 29, 2025

As many as half of Scotland's social workers from minority ethnic backgrounds say their experience of racism in the workplace means they are ... View article...

Rebuilding politics: countering the far right with community empowerment

Pacific Standard Time — Monday, April 28, 2025

Empowering young people, building communities and engaging with politics at the local level are key to addressing the UK's wealth inequality . View article...

Social psychologist explains historical progress and pitfalls in addressing anti-Black racism

Pacific Standard Time — Tuesday, April 29, 2025

The book applies insights from social psychology to explain why anti-Black racism has appeared to decline in some realms, such as politics and ... View article...

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