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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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Aboriginal human rights experts take Australia's racist youth justice policies to the United Nations

Australian Eastern Time — April 01, 2025

Aboriginal leaders are calling on the United Nations to take urgent action to address Australia's 'discriminatory and punitive youth justice ...

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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...

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...

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...

Family fights for change ahead of prison death inquest

Australian Eastern Time — March 25, 2025

The family of an Aboriginal man who died in custody in 2022 hopes his inquest will bring about change in the justice system. 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...

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...

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Incarceration crisis: youth laws to face UN scrutiny

Australian Eastern Time — April 02, 2025

"This approach is not only failing Aboriginal people and Aboriginal children, it's failing Australia." The complaint from Dr McGlade, an expert ... View article...

Te Pāti Māori refusing to attend privileges committee hearing on Parliament haka

Australian Eastern Time — April 02, 2025

Te Pāti Māori is refusing to face Parliament's powerful Privileges Committee over its Treaty Bill protest haka. The party says they fear they ... View article...

Movies aren't the only attraction at Māoriland Film Festival

Australian Eastern Time — April 01, 2025

His activism started when he was in school, where speaking te reo Māori was not welcomed by the principal. He has expressed his hurt through many ... View article...

The Stolen Children of Aotearoa is confronting but essential viewing

Australian Eastern Time — April 01, 2025

The disproportionate numbers of those taken being Māori was no accident. Smale traces this violence back to its roots – not in the formation of social ... View article...

Surviving melanoma has a new genetic story

Australian Eastern Time — April 01, 2025

Using an NHMRC Early Career Fellowship, Dr Ward, discovered a particular melanoma risk variant in the IRF4 gene2 is strongly associated with melanoma at body sites with a known poor prognosis, tumour thickness and poorer survival rates. View article...

New grant sends culturally targeted quit smoking program national

Australian Eastern Time — April 02, 2025

An Indigenous-led program that's already helping hundreds of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people quit smoking and vaping is about to go ... View article...

WellSouth boosts free flu vaccination eligibility

Australian Eastern Time — April 01, 2025

Hundreds of Māori and Pacific Island people in Southland and Otago who are aged 55 – 64 years old are once again covered for the flu vaccine this ... View article...

These Blak women are travelling to Samoa to play footy and share culture

Australian Eastern Time — April 01, 2025

Founded to create opportunities for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women from both remote and urban communities, Murri Gummaz is more than ... View article...

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