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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's failure to uphold human rights scrutinised in UN speech

Australian Eastern Time — Friday, November 28, 2025

We pay our respect to Elders past and present. This land always was, and always will be Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander land. Sovereignty has ...

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I know where you live': Wāhine Māori Councillors ramp up security after threats

Australian Eastern Time — Friday, November 07, 2025

Māori councillors Mawera Karetai and Toni Boynton have both received threats and harassment during this year's election . View article...

Rural nurses target vaccination 'hesitancy'

Australian Eastern Time — Friday, October 31, 2025

Vaccine mistrust. Māori GP Doctor Nina Bevin said she was worried about the low vaccination rates . Dr Bevin said despite years of hard mahi from the ... View article...

NT Aboriginal health leaders mark Diabetes Feet Day with call for greater investment in foot health

Australian Eastern Time — Thursday, November 13, 2025

The Aboriginal Medical Services Alliance Northern Territory and Central Australian Aboriginal Congress have called for greater awareness and ... View article...

World's largest indigenous education conference kicks off in Auckland

Australian Eastern Time — Tuesday, November 18, 2025

The four-day conference features keynote presentations from a number of Māori academics including educator Professor Linda Tuhiwai Smith, linguistic ... View article...

Iwi leaders unveil AI safeguards to protect Māori data

Australian Eastern Time — Friday, October 31, 2025

Te Kāhui Raraunga - the working arm of the Data Iwi Leaders Group - has unveiled a new framework designed to protect Māori data use in the AI age ... View article...

Minerals Council and Indigenous groups unite to overhaul Aboriginal heritage laws

Australian Eastern Time — Tuesday, November 11, 2025

Indigenous activists would need to prove their connection to sites they seek to protect under proposed changes to commonwealth Aboriginal heritage ... View article...

Teen vaping impacts on smoking rates, researchers say

Australian Eastern Time — Wednesday, November 19, 2025

New research shows vaping is a likely reason for higher-than-expected smoking rates among Māori and Pasifika teens . See Why This Portable High ... View article...

Sexual Violence Recovery and Healing Grant Program in Australia

Australian Eastern Time — Thursday, November 13, 2025

The program prioritises support for a wide range of groups, including Aboriginal communities, multicultural communities , LGBTIQA+ individuals , people ... View article...

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Te Tai Tokerau hui backs Mariameno Kapa-Kingi amid Te Pāti Māori row

Australian Eastern Time — Wednesday, November 26, 2025

Expelled Te Pāti Māori MP Mariameno Kapa-Kingi says there are moments when she thinks “how did we get here”. Two years ago, she beat long-standing ... View article...

Commitment to lifelong learning agreed at major distance education conference

Australian Eastern Time — Wednesday, November 26, 2025

The overarching conference theme drew from the Māori concept of ako – honouring the value of reciprocity and knowledge exchange in the teaching and ... View article...

WA to host global rheumatic heart disease congress

Australian Eastern Time — Wednesday, November 26, 2025

... Aboriginal Westen Australians and disadvantaged people around the world ... Aboriginal communities. Virtually eradicated in large parts of ... View article...

Protecting 50,000 years of culture, quantifying earned attention and 'pre-bunking' on ...

Australian Eastern Time — Wednesday, November 26, 2025

Representatives from the Murujuga Aboriginal Corporation ( MAC ) and consultancy Orizontas will detail how misinformation in the weeks preceding the ... View article...

Reducing Ageism Grants Program recipients

Australian Eastern Time — Thursday, November 27, 2025

The grants program aims to promote respectful relationships towards older Aboriginal people and emphasise cultural strengths. View article...

A fight to save ancestral lands in Indonesia

Australian Eastern Time — Thursday, November 27, 2025

In New Zealand, the story of a young Māori Rhodes scholar, Naianga Tapiata , has become inseparable from that of a trailblazing ancestor figure: ... View article...

How much do people fear crime in New Zealand?

Australian Eastern Time — Thursday, November 27, 2025

Māori adults were also less confident that the criminal justice system was fair regardless of whether they faced financial stress . People who had been ... View article...

Former Te Pāti Māori leaders not prepared to walk away

Australian Eastern Time — Tuesday, November 25, 2025

Former co-leaders and presidents of Te Pāti Māori have signed a letter saying they want to salvage the divided party and are not prepared to walk ... View article...

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