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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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Revealed -- mentally ill people at greater risk of being victims of violence

Pacific Standard Time — Monday, June 23, 2014

Revealed -- mentally ill people at greater risk of being victims of violence
- People have generally been more concerned about violence by mental health patients than the potential vulnerability of those patients to violent acts ...

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Pacific Standard Time — Monday, September 30, 2024

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In some instances, the racist attitudes behind such paintings have been explicitly expressed by artists or painting owners, making them well- ... View article...

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Pacific Standard Time — Tuesday, October 08, 2024

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Pacific Standard Time — Tuesday, October 08, 2024

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Pacific Standard Time — Wednesday, October 09, 2024

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