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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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Connecticut court to hear case of teen refusing chemotherapy

Pacific Standard Time — Wednesday, January 07, 2015

Connecticut court to hear case of teen refusing chemotherapy
- When a 17-year-old Connecticut girl refused medical treatment for cancer and her mother agreed with her decision, state ...

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How Inequality and Passivity Are Eroding South Africa's Youth Potential and Threatening the 4IR

Pacific Standard Time — Monday, June 23, 2025

It threatens to sabotage South Africa's Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) ambitions before they begin. In a society as unequal as ours, inequality ... View article...

How community radio affects gender equality

Pacific Standard Time — Monday, June 23, 2025

... inequality at scale in developing countries ... The evidence makes a case for leveraging grassroots media to address gender inequality at scale in ... View article...

What's the secret to a more innovative workforce? New research points to LGBTQ+ inclusion

Pacific Standard Time — Monday, June 23, 2025

A recent study by researchers from Aalto University and the University of Vaasa revealed a strong link between LGBTQ -friendly corporate policies and ... View article...

Economic inequality and the erosion of democracy

Pacific Standard Time — Monday, June 23, 2025

In economics there are different ways of measuring inequality . The Gini coefficient is an average measure of inequality across the whole population. A ... View article...

US wealth inequality in 2022: A modest reversal at the top, persistent challenges below

Pacific Standard Time — Monday, June 23, 2025

The causes and consequences of income and wealth inequality are central concerns in economic research and policy discussions. View article...

What Pride Month Means in 2025

Pacific Standard Time — Monday, June 23, 2025

The current assaults on LGBTQ rights make it essential that communicators make sure they are fluent in the fight against those assaults. L. View article...

Carmel teens organized their own Pride festival. 5 years later, it's one of Indiana's biggest

Pacific Standard Time — Monday, June 23, 2025

In the span of just four weeks, they organized an LGBT pride festival for about 2,000 people. Indianapolis already had a longstanding monthlong ... View article...

'The Better Life Is Out of Reach': The Chinese Dream Is Slipping Away

Pacific Standard Time — Monday, June 23, 2025

“If you have to struggle, it means you're not good enough.” Anxiety over inequality is growing in China. Children of privilege inherit not only wealth ... View article...

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Artificial Inequality: AI is exacerbating career and gender divides, research from The ...

Pacific Standard Time — Wednesday, July 16, 2025

Based on a survey of 1,000 Canadian knowledge workers, the study reveals that 43% now use AI tools daily, reporting usage of 11 times or more per week. AI usage is paying dividends for frequent users, with more than a third (35%) reporting time savings of more than 11 hours a week, opening the door to the possibility of a four-day working week for some. View article...

Star Trek actor George Takei and coming out in 2005

Pacific Standard Time — Wednesday, July 16, 2025

Twenty years ago, Alexander Cho was a young editor at Frontiers, the long-running LGBTQ magazine based in Los Angeles, when he received a call ... View article...

Canberra : ACT scraps restrictions on LGBTQIA+ people, sex workers donating plasma

Pacific Standard Time — Monday, July 14, 2025

" Gay men are just as altruistic as anyone else. They want to help others, and they've been prevented from doing so. That changes today, and it's ... View article...

Brazil's controversial conversion therapies: Rising concerns for transgender people

Pacific Standard Time — Tuesday, July 15, 2025

As the first country on the continent to legalise gay marriage, Brazil is seen as one of the most advanced in terms of LGBT rights. Yet it is also ... View article...

In a divided world, I found the community I was craving on the streets of Washington DC

Pacific Standard Time — Friday, July 18, 2025

I'd just left a gay bar in Washington DC when news broke of the massacre at Pulse nightclub in Orlando. Forty-nine LGBT+ people were murdered, ... View article...

30 Years After Chicago's Deadliest Heat Wave, Systemic Racism Is Still the Root Problem

Pacific Standard Time — Thursday, July 17, 2025

... racism that caused so many Black Chicagoans to die. Chicago faces enduring segregation and environmental racism that puts the communities hit ... View article...

New Hampshire's Republican Governor Vetoes Her Own Party's Anti-LGBTQ Bills

Pacific Standard Time — Thursday, July 17, 2025

Governor Kelly Ayotte defied GOP lawmakers by rejecting legislation targeting transgender rights, LGBTQ books, and student privacy. View article...

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Pacific Standard Time — Friday, July 18, 2025

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles spark outrage over LGBT character who has taken over from Raphael. Jennika, a yellow-masked mutant and member of the ... View article...

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