Stigmabase | North America

I Stand with the 13% of Americans Who Think Judge Judy Is on the Supreme Court  - There is a crisis in American civic education . Survey after survey shows that recent college graduates are alarmingly ignorant of America's history and ...

OECD highlights Latin America's economic challenges  - OECD highlights Latin America's economic challenges ... “Better education , health and infrastructure, combined with pro-competition structural reforms ...

World Bank urges Latin America not to leave young people behind  - One in five 15- to 24-year-olds in Latin America are ninis. Although ... Almost three-quarters of ninis live in cities and overall education levels are low.

Harvard just proposed a radically new approach to college admissions in America  - The Harvard Graduate School of Education released a report on ... on the campuses of elite colleges in America , as Inside Higher Ed has reported.

Pinkwashing accusations toward Israeli speakers shake up LGBTQ conference  - Two Israeli LGBT rights advocates will be speaking this year at The National LGBTQ Task Force's Chicago conference after all, in spite of accusations ...

How Intersectionality Makes You Stupid - Yet for a 36-hour period earlier this week, the National LGBTQ Task Force chose to ally itself not with the one country in the Middle East that ...

Everyone Pissed At LGBTQ Conference's Jewish Event - The nation's largest conference of LGBTQ advocates has come under fire for allowing a reception by pro-Israeli advocates. The reception was set to ...

16 LGBTQ Historical Treasures Hiding In The NYPL's Photo Archives  - We already told you about the New York Public Library's newly digitized archives and their upcoming Remix Residency, but we were so overwhelmed ...

Houston mom defies antigay bigotry with ad celebrating her gay son  - Back in November, a Houston city ordinance that would've extended civil rights and non-discrimination protections to LGBTQ people was defeated by ...

The Center for Gender and Sexualities Studies adjusts as its own department  - Eva Martinez Powless, the director of the LGBTQ Resource Center and the CIE, said the split was a smart move because the GSRC was never ...

Why sentencing reform is an LGBTQ issue  - Less widely discussed, however, has been the disproportionate impact that it has had on lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer ( LGBTQ ) ...

My message of pride': A mother's newspaper ad celebrates her son's coming out  - Joan Wilson said that she subsequently started the Society of Lucky Mothers, a group that supports children in the LGBTQ community. She wrote on ...

Medical marijuana growers look to Mexico for business opportunities  - A man gestures during a demonstration in support of the legalisation of marijuana outside the supreme court building in Mexico City.

Mental illness : who's faking it?  - In recent years, awareness of mental health in the workplace has ramped up – and rightly so. An employee's job can often be a source of mental  ...

Care for Syrian refugee children goes above and beyond  - Treating Syrian refugee children with infections, malnutrition and psychological trauma are all in a day's work for a dedicated Toronto pediatrician.

Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics Applauds Senate Agriculture Committee's Work on Child ...  - Child nutrition programs provide an infrastructure that improves children's health on a nationwide scale, while also improving school attendance, test ...

Rare disease patients deserve better health care, says teen with MPS  - A teenager with a life-threatening rare genetic disorder is urging the Canadian government to make sure everyone with rare diseases receives the ...

At-Risk Teens Aren't Getting HIV Tests, CDC Says  - Parents, educators and clinicians can also do a better job of talking to teens about sexual health , and starting these conversations at an early age ...

Helping parents help teens  - "It's open to anyone who deals with teens so it could be teachers, it could be health professionals, it could be parents," she said. "They will go through ...

Teens Who Tan Indoors May Be More Likely to Smoke, Drink, Use Drugs: Study  - But the results do suggest that teens who tan indoors -- upping their odds for ... "It's a short step for a teen involved with one risky health behavior to try ...