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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.

Medical marijuana advocates oppose proposed restrictions

Pacific Standard Time — Friday, April 12, 2013

Medical marijuana advocates oppose proposed restrictions

PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- More than a dozen medical marijuana advocates showed up at the State House on Thursday night to voice their opposition to a host of proposed amendments that would place serious restrictions on caregivers who provide marijuana to ...

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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 ...

Equality Texas Launches “Pride with Purpose” Campaign

Pacific Standard Time — Wednesday, May 20, 2026

LGBTQ advocacy group Equality Texas is launching a statewide fundraising campaign amid growing financial challenges for LGBTQ organizations ... View article...

Older Australians concerned about Labor's plan to reduce private health insurance rebates

Pacific Standard Time — Monday, May 18, 2026

The federal government has sold the rebate cuts for older Australians as a way of addressing generational inequality . Announcing the move at the ... View article...

New research shows gap between advantaged and disadvantaged students is growing

Pacific Standard Time — Monday, May 18, 2026

The report, Years apart: Australia's growing educational inequality show these 'learning gaps' only get wider as students progress through school, ... View article...

Unprecedented Ruling Finds Hungary's Anti-LGBTQ Laws In Breach Of EU Values

Pacific Standard Time — Thursday, April 30, 2026

Genocide Watch reports that the European Union's top court has ruled that Hungarian anti- LGBTQ laws violate EU rules and infringe its values of ... View article...

Senegal's Anti-LGBTQ+ Law Sparks Fears Over HIV Healthcare Access

Pacific Standard Time — Wednesday, May 06, 2026

The legislation also criminalises the funding and so-called “promotion of LGBT ideology”, restricting free speech and effectively outlawing advocacy ... View article...

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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 ...

Equality Texas Launches “Pride with Purpose” Campaign

Pacific Standard Time — Wednesday, May 20, 2026

LGBTQ advocacy group Equality Texas is launching a statewide fundraising campaign amid growing financial challenges for LGBTQ organizations ... View article...

Baltimore's gay community to name Pelosi a 'Hometown Hero'

Pacific Standard Time — Sunday, October 27, 2013

Baltimore's gay community to name Pelosi a 'Hometown Hero' - Also being honored at the event for their "continuing dedication to fight the good fight in the name of justice and equality" will be Carlton Smith, an HIV /AIDS ...

German tourists accused of drawing swastika, writing "Adolf was here" on LGBTQ bench in ...

Pacific Standard Time — Wednesday, May 20, 2026

Miami Beach police said Christoph Rehak and Gunther Manfred Jekschtat both confessed to the crime after being interviewed by investigators. View article...

U.S. attorney nominee confirmed despite anti-LGBTQ history, no trial experience

Pacific Standard Time — Thursday, May 21, 2026

U.S. attorney nominee confirmed despite anti- LGBTQ history, no trial experience. Nine felony grand jury indictments tied to Darin Smith dismissed last ... View article...

Developed Countries Extracted 900 Million Tons of Resources from Latin ...

Pacific Standard Time — Wednesday, May 20, 2026

Researchers at ICTA-UAB urge a restructuring of international trade to reduce inequalities between the global north and south. Without changes, Latin ... View article...

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