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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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Illinois Medical Marijuana Bill gets one more chance

Pacific Standard Time — Friday, December 07, 2012

Illinois Medical Marijuana Bill gets one more chance

Illinois has been on the verge of becoming the latest state to legalize medical marijuana for years. But last-second flip-flops by state legislators have repeatedly led to the Bill's defeat. With time running out in this current legislative session ...

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50 years of protest and resistance: why Iranians keep rising up

Pacific Standard Time — Monday, January 05, 2026

... women's rights; each movement has reflected deep frustration with authoritarian rule, corruption and inequality . View article...

Uniform Inequality: racism and sexism inside the British Armed Forces examined

Pacific Standard Time — Tuesday, December 23, 2025

This report examines how inequality is experienced within the British Armed Forces after enlistment, focusing on in-service discrimination, ... View article...

Mermaids, unicorns, vampires are an empowering part of our queer folk heritage

Pacific Standard Time — Tuesday, December 23, 2025

book demonstrates how the inherent queerness of creatures ‚ like vampires, unicorns, fairies, werewolves, demons, witches, and even ... View article...

Amazon Christmas party video full of Indian employees sparks racist comments

Pacific Standard Time — Friday, December 26, 2025

A viral video claiming to show a Christmas party at an Amazon warehouse in Canada has once again sparked a wave of racist comments on X, ... View article...

What is it like being Catholic and transgender?

Pacific Standard Time — Tuesday, December 30, 2025

... LGBTQ progress and especially transgender rights. Roughly 2.8 million Americans (less than 1% of the US population) identify as transgender ... View article...

Nigel Farage racism claims have not harmed his reputation, poll finds

Pacific Standard Time — Tuesday, December 30, 2025

More than 20 former pupils of Dulwich College have accused the Reform UK leader of holding ' racist , antisemitic and fascist views' as a ... View article...

Transgender neo-Nazi applies to become non-binary while on the run

Pacific Standard Time — Monday, December 22, 2025

Before changing his gender from man to woman, Liebich had referred to LGBT people as “parasites of society” and had disrupted a pride event in ... View article...

Internal Family Systems Therapy with Black Men Navigating Racialized Traumatic Grief

Pacific Standard Time — Friday, December 26, 2025

Research has shown that racial trauma “emotional, psychological, or physical pain as a result of racism ... racism is a normal and enduring ... View article...

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St. Louis LGBTQ+ community rallies in support of transgender athletes

Pacific Standard Time — Tuesday, January 13, 2026

The LGBTQ+ community rallied at St. Louis City Hall to support the rights of trans student athletes. This comes as the Supreme Court ... View article...

Why caste census will not annihilate the foundations of inequality

Pacific Standard Time — Monday, January 12, 2026

Unlike certain advocates of social justice, he contends that counting and categorising castes will not help redress economic and social inequalities . View article...

Violence, racism, medical neglect 'endemic' in state prisons

Pacific Standard Time — Tuesday, January 13, 2026

State Sen. Julia Salazar released a report Monday that asserts conditions in New York’s prisons remain dire, with inmates regularly neglected and abused, and correction officers not held accountable for wrongdoing or investigated for misconduct or alleged criminal violations. View article...

The negative impact of AI on rural healthcare

Pacific Standard Time — Monday, January 12, 2026

The risk is that innovation could become a force for widening inequality gaps, not closing them. Opinion: Chaos or community? Where to go from ... View article...

Study offers evidence that racial bias is at play in overrepresentation of Black youth in ...

Pacific Standard Time — Tuesday, January 13, 2026

And, so, what we wanted to do here is address the question, with all things similar, is it economics or racial bias?” explained Alicia ... View article...

AI, Gig Work, Rising Income Inequality Are Reshaping Youth Futures, Says WEF Report

Pacific Standard Time — Monday, January 12, 2026

Rising economic inequality , unemployment, and financial stress remains the key factors shaping the youth population's economic prospects. View article...

How the 1990s and 2000s property price boom reduced social mobility

Pacific Standard Time — Monday, January 12, 2026

This in turn led to a big increase in wealth inequality between homeowners and renters, as well as between homeowners in different parts of the UK. In ... View article...

Supreme Court weighs bans on trans athletes in women's and girls' sports teams

Pacific Standard Time — Monday, January 12, 2026

Kate Sosin, who covers LGBTQ issues for the non-profit newsroom The 19th, has been following these cases closely. View article...

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