In a new report, the World Health Organization (WHO), UN Population Fund (UNFPA), Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA), and the UN human rights office (OHCHR), warned that key institutions ...
The term ableism is gaining momentum. For instance, the National Institutes of Health is now calling for research on the effects of ableism on disabled people's health. But what does ableism actually ...
Season 2 of Molly of Denali will consist of a one-hour special and 23 half-hour episodes. (Photo: PBS Kids) A new set of adventures are coming up for Molly Mabray, the 10-year-old protagonist of Molly ...
Mental health stigma refers to negative beliefs people may hold about those with mental illness, which can lead to stereotypes, prejudice, and discrimination. Public awareness and literacy have ...
Irene Blair is a professor of psychology and neuroscience whose research focus is stereotyping, prejudice and discrimination, and she works with several multidisciplinary groups to examine disparities ...
Recent race-related events in Ferguson, Mo., St. Louis, Baltimore, Chicago, Charleston, S.C., and New York City -- all point to the continuing need to study and understand race relations in modern ...
For young children, being taught prejudiced ideas trumps positive experiences when it comes to attitudes toward other groups of people, a new study finds. First-graders who are told by an adult that ...
Some of the confusion in thinking about matters of race stems from the ambiguity in the terms that we use. I am going to take a stab at suggesting operational definitions for a couple terms in our ...
“The previous policy would have protected people experiencing caste discrimination, but we felt it was important to lift this up and explicitly express a position on caste equity.” — Sylvia ...
“It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.” This thought-provoking quote from Gabriel García Márquez highlights a ...
Ageism – the stereotyping, prejudice, and/or discrimination of individuals or groups based on their age – is all around us. One just has to look at a rack of birthday cards for images ridiculing older ...