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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.

Prison instructor pleads guilty to smuggling drugs

Pacific Standard Time — Tuesday, May 28, 2013

Prison instructor pleads guilty to smuggling drugs: Raynold Gerling, Shawn Jones and Brian Palmquist, all 28 years old, died in 2006 and 2007 with methadone in their bodies. Methadone is a synthetic narcotic used to treat people addicted to drugs such as codeine, heroin or morphine. It helps addicts ...

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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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As trillions of dollars are passed from one generation to the next, economists are ...

Pacific Standard Time — Monday, June 08, 2026

Some economists argue that if inherited wealth becomes a bigger driver of inequality , governments may need to rethink how it is taxed. But in isn ... View article...

Black girls hit by double burden of racism and misogyny online

Pacific Standard Time — Tuesday, June 09, 2026

... racism and misogyny online, with charities warning that harmful content ... Misogynoir is a term referring to the combined force of anti-Black racism ... View article...

Education and Inequality in Society: Learning from the Lives of Two Migrant Youths

Pacific Standard Time — Monday, June 08, 2026

The later sections link the biographical trajectories of these young people to structural inequalities and the failure of the education policy in ... View article...

Idris Elba's wife in 'racism' blast over woman who hit her car and asked: 'Where are you from?'

Pacific Standard Time — Tuesday, June 09, 2026

Sir Idris Elba's wife Sabrina Dhowre Elba has called out a “ racist ” interaction with a “hostile” woman who backed into her parked car in London. The ... View article...

Campaign launched to support health and care staff facing racism at work

Pacific Standard Time — Tuesday, June 09, 2026

Greater Manchester Integrated Care Partnership (GM ICP) has launched its 'No Space for Racism ' campaign alongside a video featuring a GP ... View article...

Women's universities and Japan's gender paradox

Pacific Standard Time — Monday, June 08, 2026

Japan's recent political milestone—the election and re-election of Takaichi Sanae as Prime Minister—has drawn fresh attention to gender inequality ... View article...

10 Authors Share Why They Write LGBTQ+ Literature

Pacific Standard Time — Tuesday, June 09, 2026

... LGBTQ content in picture books. And I've seen small children rush over to Uncle Bobby's Wedding with excitement and grab it to take home to show ... View article...

Intersectional inequalities, structural racism, and environmental ...

Pacific Standard Time — Thursday, June 11, 2026

At the same time, stark geographic inequalities within Europe persist, with health outcomes and system capacity varying significantly across regions. View article...

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