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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.

Study: Rural LGBTQ+ youth in Pa. find community online

Pacific Standard Time — Monday, August 25, 2025

LGBTQ+ youth in rural Pennsylvania face greater mental health challenges than their urban peers but a new report showed they have found ways to build community online.

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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 ...

My Son's Racist Views Are Destroying Our Family

Pacific Standard Time — Thursday, August 13, 2026

Your son's racism has caused real harm to your daughter, her husband and their child. ... You say your son has “become” a racist , and you suspect he's ... View article...

Why is sociology the hate-piñata of the social sciences?

Pacific Standard Time — Monday, August 24, 2026

But when sociologists talk about our findings on inequality , we often highlight its negative consequences. By arguing that inequalities might be ... View article...

The invisible lives of LGBT immigrants

Pacific Standard Time — Wednesday, August 13, 2014

The invisible lives of LGBT immigrants - This is especially true for LGBT immigrants who are living in the U.S. without documentation. The immense pressure Villeges felt to live up to his ...

Medicaid to stop covering gender-affirming care for transgender kids

Pacific Standard Time — Thursday, August 13, 2026

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services announced a rule, effective Oct. 13, that ends Medicaid and CHIP coverage for gender‑affirming surgeries and hormone treatments for minors, citing child protection View article...

LGBTQ+ passages cut from Russian edition of Pope Francis' memoir

Pacific Standard Time — Tuesday, August 18, 2026

The Russian edition of Pope Francis' autobiography had passages about LGBTQ+ issues censored, according to media reports. View article...

Education is not the great equaliser' – Professor warns Malta's system risks reproducing inequality

Pacific Standard Time — Monday, August 17, 2026

Borg said Malta's above-average university participation should not obscure persistent inequalities elsewhere in the education system. He said simply ... View article...

If you don't count it, you don't have to fix it

Pacific Standard Time — Monday, August 17, 2026

In the twisted logic of this political moment, counting racial inequality is treated as a form of racial discrimination, while actual discrimination ... View article...

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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 ...

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...

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...

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...

Young women were promised economic independence. Housing inequality is putting it out of reach

Pacific Standard Time — Monday, August 31, 2026

Housing inequality compounds existing inequalities . That is why this is about much more than whether a young person can afford an apartment at 28 ... View article...

Can Rawlsian Theory Create An Egalitarian Society?

Pacific Standard Time — Monday, August 31, 2026

In any complex society, some degree of inequality is almost inevitable. The more important question is whether those inequalities are morally and ... View article...

Mass funeral for Mexico's first openly non-binary magistrate, Ociel Baena, in Aguascalientes

Pacific Standard Time — Monday, August 31, 2026

... People hug after the mass funeral for Mexico's first openly non-binary magistrate and LGBTQ activist, Ociel Baena, and their partner, Dorian ... View article...

'Slavery is not a thing of the past': UN supports call for reparations

Pacific Standard Time — Tuesday, September 01, 2026

Its effects continue to be felt in systemic inequality and racism . This was reiterated by the UN Committee against Racial Discrimination ( ... View article...

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