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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 Trump administration wants to let doctors discriminate against trans patients

Pacific Standard Time — Thursday, May 30, 2019

The Trump administration wants to let doctors discriminate against trans patients
- As Vox's German Lopez wrote in 2016, many LGBTQ people experience discrimination in health care settings. In one 2010 survey, 28 percent of trans ...

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LGBTQ advocates ask Virginia leaders to rescind proposed policies for trans students

Pacific Standard Time — Thursday, November 24, 2022

In light of the recent mass shooting at a gay nightclub in Colorado Springs, an LGBTQ advocacy group is asking leaders in Virginia to rescind ...

Mail sorter loses claim for bullying

Pacific Standard Time — Tuesday, February 17, 2015

Mail sorter loses claim for bullying - The High Court has dismissed a mail sorter's claims she was subjected to a campaign of bullying and harassment which left her “terrified” about ...

Wealth inequality is undermining basic human rights

Pacific Standard Time — Monday, September 07, 2026

By enacting equitable/appropriate legislation and income tax strategies which reduce wealth inequality . But morality, at times, does not guide ... View article...

Do you think treating students differently based on their race is ever justified in order to ...

Pacific Standard Time — Monday, September 07, 2026

Do you think colleges and universities that use race as a factor in admissions or other programs in an attempt to reduce racial inequality should or ... View article...

Korea risks 'capability divide' in its pursuit for AI leadership

Pacific Standard Time — Monday, August 31, 2026

I call the emerging inequality around this phenomenon a "capability divide": the growing distance between environments where AI deepens human ... View article...

Global justice report offers bold ideas but misses the realities of 2 billion informal workers

Pacific Standard Time — Wednesday, September 02, 2026

As economists and experts on labour, inequality and the informal economy, we believe there is a great deal to support in the report, which was ... View article...

Gender inequality forcing SA female athletes into dual careers

Pacific Standard Time — Monday, August 31, 2026

Appearing before members of parliament alongside the Commission for Gender Equality, Banyana Banyana head coach Desiree Ellis warned that SA continues ... 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...

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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...

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...

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...

Stand Up To Racism celebrate after far-right Edinburgh event stopped

Pacific Standard Time — Thursday, September 24, 2026

ANTI- RACISM campaigners have declared 'victory' after a planned far-right event in Edinburgh was cancelled. 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...

Sex-based discrimination in medicine costs lives

Pacific Standard Time — Wednesday, September 23, 2026

This inequality costs lives. A British Heart Foundation-funded study ... Including women in more trials would go a long way towards addressing the ... View article...

For lesbian victims of domestic violence, competent care is scare

Pacific Standard Time — Wednesday, September 23, 2026

Research shows LGBTQ people have higher rates of mental health conditions than their non-LGBTQ+ peers. A study published last year in JAMA Network ... View article...

Indonesia: President designates spread of LGBTQ (LGBTQI+) culture as Nonmilitary Threat

Pacific Standard Time — Wednesday, September 23, 2026

Responding to recent backlash against online expression of LGBTQI+, which derived from the Presidential Regulation on General Policy for National Defense, which classifies the spread of LGBTQI+ culture as a non-military threat to the state, Amnesty International Indonesia’s executive director Usman Hamid says: View article...

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