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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.

The Quest to Understand Why a Tribal Population Is at More Risk for Suicide

Pacific Standard Time — Monday, May 14, 2018

The Quest to Understand Why a Tribal Population Is at More Risk for Suicide
- One observed that 90% of those committing suicide had a mental disorder. Such biological predisposition has not been probed in India, according to ...

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Top stories of the last 30 days

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 ...

Older Australians concerned about Labor's plan to reduce private health insurance rebates

Pacific Standard Time — Monday, May 18, 2026

The federal government has sold the rebate cuts for older Australians as a way of addressing generational inequality . Announcing the move at the ... View article...

Equality Texas Launches “Pride with Purpose” Campaign

Pacific Standard Time — Wednesday, May 20, 2026

LGBTQ advocacy group Equality Texas is launching a statewide fundraising campaign amid growing financial challenges for LGBTQ organizations ... View article...

New research shows gap between advantaged and disadvantaged students is growing

Pacific Standard Time — Monday, May 18, 2026

The report, Years apart: Australia's growing educational inequality show these 'learning gaps' only get wider as students progress through school, ... View article...

Unprecedented Ruling Finds Hungary's Anti-LGBTQ Laws In Breach Of EU Values

Pacific Standard Time — Thursday, April 30, 2026

Genocide Watch reports that the European Union's top court has ruled that Hungarian anti- LGBTQ laws violate EU rules and infringe its values of ... View article...

Senegal's Anti-LGBTQ+ Law Sparks Fears Over HIV Healthcare Access

Pacific Standard Time — Wednesday, May 06, 2026

The legislation also criminalises the funding and so-called “promotion of LGBT ideology”, restricting free speech and effectively outlawing advocacy ... View article...

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Top stories of the last 7 days

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 ...

Equality Texas Launches “Pride with Purpose” Campaign

Pacific Standard Time — Wednesday, May 20, 2026

LGBTQ advocacy group Equality Texas is launching a statewide fundraising campaign amid growing financial challenges for LGBTQ organizations ... View article...

Baltimore's gay community to name Pelosi a 'Hometown Hero'

Pacific Standard Time — Sunday, October 27, 2013

Baltimore's gay community to name Pelosi a 'Hometown Hero' - Also being honored at the event for their "continuing dedication to fight the good fight in the name of justice and equality" will be Carlton Smith, an HIV /AIDS ...

Is inequality falling because we all now get free stuff online?

Pacific Standard Time — Monday, May 25, 2026

Some economic ideas are just too silly -- too stupid even -- to be taken seriously. No, this isn't a reference to Marxist ideas about how badly ... View article...

Why Gender Inequality Still Haunts the Economy

Pacific Standard Time — Monday, May 25, 2026

Gender inequality in the labor market remains both pervasive and paradoxical. Despite widespread opposition to gender disparities, ... View article...

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...

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