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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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Montreal public health joins push urging Ottawa to decriminalize all drugs

Pacific Standard Time — Sunday, July 29, 2018

Montreal public health joins push urging Ottawa to decriminalize all drugs
- The director of Montreal's public health department is welcoming a recent report by Toronto's board of health pushing the federal ...

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Owner of Siberian gay club charged with 'extremism' and placed under house arrest

Pacific Standard Time — Tuesday, November 12, 2024

Russia continues the repression of its LGBTQ citizens with the arrest last month of the owner of a gay club in the Siberian city of Chita in the ... View article...

Eight Albanian activists of the LGBTQ community were physically attacked in Belgrade

Pacific Standard Time — Monday, November 18, 2024

Journalist Idro Seferi has said that eight activists from Albania of the LGBT community were physically attacked while returning from the ... View article...

Conservative Masculinity's Contradictory Attitude Toward Gay Men Has a Long History

Pacific Standard Time — Thursday, November 21, 2024

While ultimately unsuccessful, in 1929, it was the Social Democratic Party that introduced legislation to decriminalize homosexuality . In contrast, ... View article...

Popular Portland LGBTQ bar & grill vandalized twice in 3 months

Pacific Standard Time — Thursday, November 07, 2024

For the second time in the past three months, Escape Bar & Grill, a popular Portland LGBTQ space was robbed and vandalized last week. View article...

Anti-Black racism in Canadian health care: a qualitative study of diverse perceptions of ...

Pacific Standard Time — Thursday, November 14, 2024

“Anti-Black racism ” refers to the unique manifestation of racism ... “I can't just point [to] her and say, 'You're a racist , you're a racist ! View article...

Keturrah Herron is first openly LGBTQ woman elected to Kentucky Senate

Pacific Standard Time — Thursday, November 07, 2024

Keturah Herron has won her race for the Kentucky state Senate, making her the first openly LGBTQ woman elected to that legislative body. View article...

A push for equality: Benidorm's grants towards preventing gender violence

Pacific Standard Time — Monday, November 11, 2024

... inequality and violence ... inequality and violence. Amid Spain's changing reputation for sexist violence, headway is being made across the ... View article...

Religiosity, perceived family support, and gender disclosure of LGBTQ + medical students in ...

Pacific Standard Time — Thursday, November 14, 2024

The well-being of LGBTQ + medical students can be influenced by religiosity, family support, and the disclosure of their gender identity or sexual ... View article...

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This government just took a major step towards banning anti-LGBTQ+ hate speech

Pacific Standard Time — Tuesday, December 03, 2024

Poland made a landmark move for LGBTQ+ rights after it banned hate speech against sexual orientation and gender in a new set of regulations. View article...

We must defend the LGBT groups who support our young people

Pacific Standard Time — Wednesday, December 04, 2024

This is the situation currently facing LGBT Youth Scotland, a national charity which provides youth groups and support for LGBTQ+ young people aged 13 ... View article...

Majority of black women experience sexual harassment at work stemming from racism, report finds

Pacific Standard Time — Thursday, December 05, 2024

More than 70 per cent said they had been bullied or harassed at work, with 53 reporting that they had been subjected to racist comments made in their ... View article...

The Cost of Inequality: Why the Global Economy Cannot Afford to Leave Women Behind

Pacific Standard Time — Monday, December 02, 2024

... inequality for women and girls globally, and how this compromises growth and prosperity for all. “AI and the green economy have the potential to ... View article...

How the Coming Home Tour supports LGBTQ Wisconsinites this Holiday Season

Pacific Standard Time — Thursday, December 05, 2024

The statewide tour of PFLAG meetings shares stories of LGBTQ history and heritage to help people feel more grounded. View article...

Johnson County Democrat becomes first openly gay member to serve as a Kansas party leader

Pacific Standard Time — Tuesday, December 03, 2024

Brandon Woodard will serve as the KS Legislature's minority leader, making him the first openly LGBTQ+ party leader in state history. View article...

Educational inequality in Belgium returns to pre-1950 levels, study finds

Pacific Standard Time — Monday, December 02, 2024

Even a bit worse," Verhaeghe remarked. The results showed that inequality in higher education, except for a brief decline after World War II, has ... View article...

Changing people's minds one event at a time

Pacific Standard Time — Wednesday, December 04, 2024

Oxfam is a global movement of people fighting inequality to end poverty and injustice. Together we offer lifesaving support in times of crisis and ... View article...

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