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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.

South Africa's poorest hooked on cocktail of heroin and anti-HIV drugs

Pacific Standard Time — Thursday, October 31, 2013

South Africa's poorest hooked on cocktail of heroin and anti-HIV drugs - Cheap and highly addictive, it is said to include marijuana, low-grade heroin and other additives like rat poison and antiretrovirals, which are used to treat HIV.

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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...

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...

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...

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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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

Lack of legal help might stop LGBTQ asylum seekers

Pacific Standard Time — Thursday, June 11, 2026

Despite the politicization of the nation's asylum process and the threat of deportation, many immigrants in the United States are still seeking ... View article...

Being a Queer Immigrant in a Time of White Christian Nationalism

Pacific Standard Time — Tuesday, June 16, 2026

I escaped anti-LGBTQ+ violence and intimidation in my native country only to find it here in the United States. View article...

Calls mount for independent investigation into alleged Montreal police racism

Pacific Standard Time — Tuesday, June 16, 2026

... discrimination and racism by a group of Montreal police officers, as the province faced mounting calls for an ... View article...

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