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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.

Opioids only partly explain America's 'deaths of despair'

Pacific Standard Time — Monday, October 01, 2018

Opioids only partly explain America's 'deaths of despair'
- Drug overdoses aren't the only reason for shortening life expectancies—income inequality and immigration have something to do with it too.

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Top stories of the last 30 days

School Board to consider plans that would increase inequality in student enrollment

Pacific Standard Time — Monday, October 12, 2026

But that only works if the city's neighborhoods are not facing radical economic inequality . And they are. Sadly, neighborhood schools mean segregated ... 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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

New Las Vegas LGBTQ tradition Pride on Paradise honors the Fruit Loop's history

Pacific Standard Time — Thursday, October 08, 2026

Before Nevada repealed its anti-sodomy law in 1993, members of the LGBTQ community could be jailed and fined for engaging in same-sex conduct or even ... View article...

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Top stories of the last 7 days

School Board to consider plans that would increase inequality in student enrollment

Pacific Standard Time — Monday, October 12, 2026

But that only works if the city's neighborhoods are not facing radical economic inequality . And they are. Sadly, neighborhood schools mean segregated ... View article...

LGBT veteran attacks 'inadequate' military payout scheme rules

Pacific Standard Time — Monday, October 12, 2026

A Falklands veteran says the government's compensation scheme is 'inadequate and ill-informed' for excluding those bullied into resigning. View article...

Countries locked into IMF austerity programs are also around twice as vulnerable to ...

Pacific Standard Time — Monday, October 12, 2026

... inequality and push more people into hunger. In Ecuador and Guinea-Bissau, for example, governments are being required to implement austerity ... View article...

Justice Alito rages against marriage rights

Pacific Standard Time — Monday, October 12, 2026

Justice Samuel Alito said that marriage equality should be overturned because it makes Christians look bad for opposing it View article...

Diversity Regulations for Clinical Trials & the Underrepresentation of Native American Women

Pacific Standard Time — Tuesday, October 13, 2026

Reviews federal clinical-trial diversity rules and explains why Native American women remain underrepresented. It proposes community-centered ... View article...

Second school in Colorado Springs alleges racism by members of Lutheran High School community

Pacific Standard Time — Tuesday, October 06, 2026

"I am deeply troubled by reports of racist behavior experienced by visitors to our community. Racism and discrimination have no place in Parker ... View article...

Why the right turned on Indian-Americans, explained

Pacific Standard Time — Tuesday, October 13, 2026

American racism is very interesting, always has been. And there is a type that says, immigrants are dirty, they come here, they're uneducated, they ... View article...

Turkey Is Brutally Oppressing Queer People. Here's What You Need to Know

Pacific Standard Time — Monday, October 12, 2026

From 2022 onwards, “ LGBT ” became an organizing theme in government politics. Official discourse now casts the LGBTQI+ movement, and increasingly ... View article...

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