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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.

Fear and Misinformation: Meningitis and the LGBT Community

Pacific Standard Time — Sunday, April 14, 2013

Fear and Misinformation: Meningitis and the LGBT Community

Here is yellow journalism combined with bad politics: a young, otherwise healthy man from West Hollywood is in a coma from meningitis. Some West Hollywood politician made a public statement claiming he had died after contracting the disease at the ...

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Community health fair aims to change stigma of mental illness

Pacific Standard Time — Sunday, May 17, 2015

Community health fair aims to change stigma of mental illness - “It's embarrassing to admit that you can't do this. But one thing that I've learned here at this fair, is that mental illness is ...

Elder Queers offers a forum for LGBTQ connection while honoring those ...

Pacific Standard Time — Thursday, February 26, 2026

I realized later in life that I was queer and started to explore the local LGBTQ community more intentionally. I appear younger than I am (Black ... View article...

UN Forum Explores Ongoing Discrimination Faced By People of African Descent

Pacific Standard Time — Sunday, November 26, 2017

UN Forum Explores Ongoing Discrimination Faced By People of African Descent - Participants from Europe, Central Asia and North America gathered this week at a United Nations forum in Geneva to explore ways to combat racial discrimination and to ensure effective promotion and protection of the human rights of people of African descent. Speaking at the opening of the two-day ...

Gender inequality: female top guns discuss silent malaise in ivory towers

Pacific Standard Time — Monday, May 25, 2026

One of such is in the area of gender inequality and subtle, sometimes outright discrimination against the female gender. It is for this reason that ... View article...

This racist con is literally killing white Americans

Pacific Standard Time — Thursday, May 28, 2026

And the political response from the Republicans? They keep electing racist white politicians to refuse Medicaid expansion, slash food stamps, hand tax ... View article...

N.B. government supports inquiry into systemic racism against Indigenous people in justice system

Pacific Standard Time — Thursday, May 28, 2026

"We are fully supportive of an Indigenous-led inquiry on systemic racism ," Keith Chiasson, the province's Indigenous Affairs minister, told reporters ... View article...

Why Are Indians Suddenly Facing Racism?

Pacific Standard Time — Thursday, May 28, 2026

Why Are Indians Suddenly Facing Racism ? Why Are Indians ... Despite all this, Indians have not been immune to racist slurs and xenophobic ... View article...

False eviction letter fans the flames of anti-Indigenous racism in BC

Pacific Standard Time — Thursday, May 28, 2026

Williams and Sean Carleton, a professor at the University of Winnipeg who studies racism against Indigenous Peoples, both emphasized there is no ... View article...

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UN Forum Explores Ongoing Discrimination Faced By People of African Descent

Pacific Standard Time — Sunday, November 26, 2017

UN Forum Explores Ongoing Discrimination Faced By People of African Descent - Participants from Europe, Central Asia and North America gathered this week at a United Nations forum in Geneva to explore ways to combat racial discrimination and to ensure effective promotion and protection of the human rights of people of African descent. Speaking at the opening of the two-day ...

Community health fair aims to change stigma of mental illness

Pacific Standard Time — Sunday, May 17, 2015

Community health fair aims to change stigma of mental illness - “It's embarrassing to admit that you can't do this. But one thing that I've learned here at this fair, is that mental illness is ...

Elder Queers offers a forum for LGBTQ connection while honoring those ...

Pacific Standard Time — Thursday, February 26, 2026

I realized later in life that I was queer and started to explore the local LGBTQ community more intentionally. I appear younger than I am (Black ... View article...

Gender inequality: female top guns discuss silent malaise in ivory towers

Pacific Standard Time — Monday, May 25, 2026

One of such is in the area of gender inequality and subtle, sometimes outright discrimination against the female gender. It is for this reason that ... View article...

Gender inequality: Can't exclude married daughters from definition of 'family', rules SC

Pacific Standard Time — Wednesday, June 03, 2026

'It is incompatible with the constitutional guarantee of equality and perpetuates historical notions of gender inequality which the Constitution ... View article...

Don't let strategic commissioning make inequality worse

Pacific Standard Time — Monday, June 01, 2026

It's been the backbone of every serious health inequalities strategy of the past 15 years. Proportionate universalism carries a feature that finance ... View article...

Overcoming Educational Inequality in the Digital Era

Pacific Standard Time — Monday, June 01, 2026

One major cause of educational inequality is the lack of access to technology and internet connectivity. Many students from low-income families or ... View article...

How the death of Yves Sakila exposes Ireland's deeply rooted racism problem

Pacific Standard Time — Thursday, June 04, 2026

Joseph says that Irish racism is insidious because it is often couched in concerns about immigration, and housing scarcity – which immigrants are ... View article...

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