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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.

Slight variation in Gene for BDNF may Boost Obesity Risk in Children

Pacific Standard Time — Monday, November 02, 2015

Slight variation in Gene for BDNF may Boost Obesity Risk in Children
- Dr. Jack Yanovski, an investigator at the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, said from past many ...

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Ahead of midterm election, HRC report reveals what's at stake for bullied LGBTQ+ students

Pacific Standard Time — Thursday, September 24, 2026

... 2024 survey of students found "a devastating correlation between declining mental health of LGBTQ+ youth and the passage of anti- LGBTQ laws." View article...

Gavin Newsom explains the surprising reason he just vetoed a pro-trans bill

Pacific Standard Time — Wednesday, September 23, 2026

“This bill would prohibit future governors from recognizing a request for extradition of a person subject to criminal liability based on allegations ... View article...

Bill Gates pushes for 'smarter use' of AI to battle global inequality

Pacific Standard Time — Wednesday, September 23, 2026

New coalition of Anthropic, Google, OpenAI Foundation and others are working to make AI more accessible in underrepresented languages. View article...

Where wage inequality is increasing and decreasing. What CT is seeing

Pacific Standard Time — Monday, September 14, 2026

Where wage inequality is increasing and decreasing. Wage equality helps define how workers share in economic growth. When top earners pull far ahead ... View article...

Grand challenges 'require social science response'

Pacific Standard Time — Monday, September 14, 2026

... inequality , a new report says – but the social sciences must also step up by offering solutions rather than just critiquing problems. The ... View article...

Trans woman has ears surgically removed to become 'a dragon'

Pacific Standard Time — Wednesday, April 06, 2016

Trans woman has ears surgically removed to become 'a dragon' - Eva Tiamat Baphomet Medusa — Tiamat for short — prefers to be identified as “it” and wants to become a “mythical beast” through a series of intense ...

University of Melbourne publishes second Annual Report on Racism

Pacific Standard Time — Thursday, September 24, 2026

... Racism Commitment in 2023 and complaints and reports of racism submitted by students and staff in 2025. Importantly, it also gives visibility to ... View article...

Young people should know history of the fight for human rights

Pacific Standard Time — Thursday, September 24, 2026

Our country was founded by white men, who didn't think about giving full rights to Black Americans, women, the LGBTQ community (what they knew of it, ... View article...

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Trans woman has ears surgically removed to become 'a dragon'

Pacific Standard Time — Wednesday, April 06, 2016

Trans woman has ears surgically removed to become 'a dragon' - Eva Tiamat Baphomet Medusa — Tiamat for short — prefers to be identified as “it” and wants to become a “mythical beast” through a series of intense ...

Childhood mental illness has a stigma

Pacific Standard Time — Tuesday, October 22, 2013

Childhood mental illness has a stigma - Clearly there is substantial prejudice against children with mental illness among the adult population – so it is time for an increase in public awareness and ...

Racial disparities in Oklahoma prison admissions led to Black people disproportionately exposed ...

Pacific Standard Time — Monday, December 21, 2020

A prison reform group has outlined what it says was a pattern of racial disparities that led to African Americans being disproportionately exposed to ... View article...

Extreme inequality is not a given, it is a political choice and we can unmake it

Pacific Standard Time — Monday, October 05, 2026

The G20 should create an International Panel on Inequality to produce periodic, scientifically rigorous assessments of the magnitude and changes ... View article...

Income inequality: minimal impact of the migration gap

Pacific Standard Time — Monday, October 05, 2026

Fedea reveals that only between 1% and 3% of income inequality in Spain is due to the difference in income between Spanish households and ... View article...

Grindr Buys Telehealth Firm in $250M Deal

Pacific Standard Time — Monday, October 05, 2026

“Together, we can revolutionize access to HIV prevention, just as Grindr revolutionized how gay men meet, and accelerate progress toward ending the ... View article...

What will the next leader of the UN need to get the job done in an increasingly complex world?

Pacific Standard Time — Monday, October 05, 2026

Mahama also raised perhaps the most difficult problem that will confront the next U.N. chief: the world's “intense fragmentation, deepening inequality ... View article...

"A deranged city": Palma gentrification, social inequality, tourism …

Pacific Standard Time — Monday, October 05, 2026

... inequality , population pressure, traffic, tourism, cruise ships". She says the pandemic fuelled a surge in the desire to travel, while social ... View article...

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