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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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Game designed to save dying Aboriginal language wins global awards

Australian Eastern Time — Thursday, November 20, 2025

With only eight fluent Nyiyaparli speakers remaining, an Aboriginal group is racing against time to save their 41000-year-old language.

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Top stories of the last 30 days

Aboriginal activist Rachel Perkins joins faith leaders at Ramadan dinner

Australian Eastern Time — Thursday, March 30, 2023

Aboriginal film director and activist Rachel Perkins joined faith leaders to discuss the Uluru Statement at an Iftar dinner held at Lakemba ... View article...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Aboriginal spiritual healer Stephen Norman Richards charged with string of rapes

Australian Eastern Time — Tuesday, October 28, 2025

An Aboriginal spiritual healer once nominated for Australian of the Year has faced court charged with a string of rapes and indecent assaults on ... View article...

Expressions of interest sought from community for committee to advise on new board of inquiry

Australian Eastern Time — Thursday, October 30, 2025

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people with a connection to the Canberra region can now submit an expression of interest to be part of a ... View article...

A history of expulsion: Six time MPs got given the boot by their own party

Australian Eastern Time — Tuesday, November 11, 2025

It's a short list, one reserved for the few in New Zealand's political history who've been shown the door by their own party. On Monday, Te Pāti Māori ... View article...

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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...

Worsening suicide crisis requires urgent action nationwide, say Aboriginal and Torres Strait ...

Australian Eastern Time — Wednesday, November 19, 2025

The Centre of Best Practice in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Suicide Prevention, the National Aboriginal Community Controlled Health ... 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...

First Peoples' Assembly warns proposed youth crime changes risk pushing kids 'into a ...

Australian Eastern Time — Tuesday, November 18, 2025

" Aboriginal communities will again bear the brunt of the government's proposed changes, which will result in Aboriginal children being locked up ... View article...

Unique rehabilitation program offers alternative to prison system

Australian Eastern Time — Tuesday, November 18, 2025

An Aboriginal man in waist-height water, holding fishing spear, with words on. With the Northern Territory prison population sitting at a record ... View article...

NSW government fights new direct discrimination claim in child removal class action

Australian Eastern Time — Tuesday, November 18, 2025

... Aboriginal — “explicitly” discriminated based on race. “The plain meaning of this is that the Aboriginal race of a person in a home is treated as ... View article...

Māori ethnic population nears million

Australian Eastern Time — Wednesday, November 19, 2025

Nearly a million people living in Aotearoa New Zealand identify as Māori – and that number is likely to be more than a million by 2033, ... View article...

When a party breaks up like a bad marriage

Australian Eastern Time — Tuesday, November 18, 2025

From the outside, Te Pāti Māori's relationship looked perfect but, for some period of time, the seams have been popping apart, one by agonising ... View article...

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