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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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Australia: Disproportionate Removal of Aboriginal Children

Australian Eastern Time — March 27, 2025

Western Australia's child protection authorities are disproportionately removing children from Aboriginal families and ...

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What is hepatitis B, the virus at the centre of the recent hospital infection alert?

Australian Eastern Time — March 14, 2025

Babies of infected mothers, Aboriginal and Torres Straight Islander people, people who engage in unprotected sex, men who have sex with men ... View article...

What is Awhina from MAFS Australia's ethnicity? Explaining her name origin and...

Australian Eastern Time — March 20, 2025

In te reo, the language of the Māori people, 'wh' is typically pronounced like the English 'f' sound. So Awhina's name is pronounced more closely to ... View article...

New Aboriginal women's health clinic to open in Melbourne

Australian Eastern Time — March 04, 2025

The Australian government has announced the establishment of an Aboriginal women's health clinic in Melbourne. View article...

The mental health challenges facing queer mob

Australian Eastern Time — March 25, 2025

As the shine of Mardi Gras fades for another year, queer First Nations people reflect on the prejudice they can face, even from close to home. View article...

New suicide prevention centre to drive culturally responsive pratice

Australian Eastern Time — March 07, 2025

UWA will channel its expertise in suicide prevention and wellbeing for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people into a new centre. View article...

NT justice system faces 'looming crisis' over Indigenous incarceration

Australian Eastern Time — March 25, 2025

Concerningly, the North Australian Aboriginal Justice Agency (NAAJA) says this data doesn't even reflect the "significant rise in the prison ... View article...

Promising vaccine step closer to help tuberculosis epidemic

Australian Eastern Time — March 11, 2025

While the disease is uncommon in Australia, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in the Northern Territory and Far North Queensland are ... View article...

New twist in alleged Mount Panorama sacred claim

Australian Eastern Time — March 07, 2025

“The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Heritage Protection Act 1984 needs urgent reform to stop it from being weaponised.” However, the New South ... View article...

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'Spirit will be set free': remains of young Aboriginal man returned to Tasmania after 170 years in UK

Australian Eastern Time — March 28, 2025

Tasmanian Aboriginal Centre says 'tide is turning' in its negotiations to repatriate ancestral remains and important cultural items. View article...

Homecoming for Indigenous remains and shell necklace

Australian Eastern Time — March 28, 2025

The remains of a young Aboriginal man and a shell necklace kept at two northern hemisphere universities have been returned to their traditional ... View article...

Aboriginal education officer accused of kidnapping schoolgirls, giving them drugs

Australian Eastern Time — March 26, 2025

Jayden Thorpe on trial in Newcastle court for allegedly kidnapping and giving drugs to two girls while working as Aboriginal education officer in ... View article...

Aboriginal women are scared to seek help for fear their children will be taken, report finds

Australian Eastern Time — March 27, 2025

Human Rights Watch spoke to 33 Aboriginal parents who between them have had 114 children removed and placed in out-of-home care. View article...

Getting on with reforms to improve children's lives

Australian Eastern Time — March 28, 2025

The new policy directions will further help ensure children are at the centre of decision-making, apply essential protective measures for Aboriginal ... View article...

Traditional owners accuse NT government of 'treating them like children' in meeting on ...

Australian Eastern Time — March 26, 2025

The Aboriginal Sacred Sites Act protects about 15,000 recognised Indigenous heritage in the territory. It is the strongest legislation to protect ... View article...

15 New 'Affordable Rentals' In Kāinga Māori

Australian Eastern Time — March 28, 2025

... Māori , says chief executive Enid Ratahi-Pryor. She said it was Sir Hirini Mead who defined the difference between a papakāinga and a kāinga Māori . View article...

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