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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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Death with Dignity, medical marijuana on state ballot

Pacific Standard Time — Tuesday, November 06, 2012

Death with Dignity, medical marijuana on state ballot: Several propositions appear today on the Massachusetts election ballot. From legalizing medical marijuana to physician−assisted suicide, registered voters — not elected officials — will determine if these initiatives become laws. “[Voting on ballot ...

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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...

Maryland lawmakers plan to study reparations for slavery

Pacific Standard Time — Thursday, April 03, 2025

... racism while also acknowledging the state's difficult budget conditions. “I have said and long stated that the history of racism in this state is ... 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...

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Pacific Standard Time — Wednesday, March 26, 2025

Hill says the framework focuses too much on addressing gender inequality and changing attitudes, while overlooking crucial opportunities to ... View article...

Queer Cameroon asylum seeker dies in Mediterranean crossing

Pacific Standard Time — Thursday, April 10, 2025

Ali (pseudonym), a 25-year-old Cameroonian belonging to the LGBTI community, sought asylum in Europe as he felt unsafe due to his sexual ... View article...

HIV remains a public health priority

Pacific Standard Time — Wednesday, April 02, 2025

Examples include disease outbreaks and natural disasters, climate change, and social determinants of health like poverty, inequality , and lack of ... View article...

A journey from white nationalism to anti-racism

Pacific Standard Time — Thursday, April 03, 2025

While they justify social hierarchies, anti- racists aim to dismantle them. Black explained that anti- racism , by contrast, is an expansive belief ... View article...

New Orleans Saints' Khalen Saunders Hosting LGBTQ

Pacific Standard Time — Thursday, April 03, 2025

"Being in the NFL is very male-dominant and heterosexual dominant and it feels as though there's not really a space for the LGBTQ community." Related: ... View article...

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D.C. opens its first LGBTQ senior home

Pacific Standard Time — Wednesday, April 16, 2025

Mary's House for Older Adults in Washington, D.C., is a new affordable housing project that is trying to ease the barriers LGBTQ seniors face when ... View article...

Nigel Farage clashes with teaching union over 'far right' claim

Pacific Standard Time — Thursday, April 17, 2025

The NEU's general secretary, Daniel Kebede, claimed there were "an awful lot of racists who are getting involved in Reform". Farage reacted angrily to ... View article...

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

Pacific Standard Time — Thursday, April 17, 2025

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

What Is This Nation?

Pacific Standard Time — Thursday, April 17, 2025

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LGBTQ+ students to be recognized and celebrated at Lavender Graduation

Pacific Standard Time — Thursday, April 17, 2025

... LGBTQ ,” Nguyen said. Graduating undergraduate and graduate ... “ LGBTQ students sometimes face barriers related to their LGBTQ identity ... View article...

Chicago Teachers Union ratifies groundbreaking contract cementing LGBTQ+ protections

Pacific Standard Time — Thursday, April 17, 2025

As school boards ban LGBTQ + books, conservative lawmakers target trans youth, and federal officials threaten funding for inclusive schools, ... View article...

Is travel really a balm for racism?

Pacific Standard Time — Thursday, April 17, 2025

But most Black people haven't had the opportunity to get a break from either political worries or racism in the United States. Data from Pew ... View article...

Lawsuit alleging environmental racism in Louisiana parish allowed to proceed, federal court says

Pacific Standard Time — Thursday, April 17, 2025

A civil rights lawsuit alleging a south Louisiana parish engaged in racist land-use policies by placing polluting industries in ... View article...

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