| Roma and Dalits experience high levels of discrimination and are stigmatised to a severe degree. |
| Older women can be stigmatised particularly when poverty is acute and accused of witchcraft, leading to violence and expulsion from their homes. |
| Citizens undergo useless linguistic ragging while Communities are completely stigmatised. |
| Many patients usually wish to conceal their condition as far as possible, to avoid embarrassment and being stigmatised by visible physical deformity. |
| This trauma was exacerbated by the fact that many women who had been raped were stigmatised and ostracised by their spouse, family and community. |
| However, they are often less stigmatised and may have had the opportunity to go to school or to gain prior work experience. |
