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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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Changes to medical-marijuana law kick in

Pacific Standard Time — Wednesday, April 03, 2013

Changes to medical-marijuana law kick in

Voters endorsed the use of medical marijuana in 2008 to alleviate side effects of certain illnesses, such as cancer or chronic pain. But lawmakers said the law left too much open to interpretation and pushed through bipartisan measures at the end of ...

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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

LGBTQ Activists In Africa Work To Counter influence Of American Evangelicals

Pacific Standard Time — Thursday, April 10, 2025

The Washington Blade reports that American far-right evangelical organizations fund African MPs and religious groups and support their advocacy ... 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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Cutting Specialists From Suicide Hotline Threatens LGBTQ+ Youth, Experts Say

Pacific Standard Time — Tuesday, May 06, 2025

In October, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer ( LGBTQ +) individuals—approximately 1.2 million of whom have called the national suicide ... View article...

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