They believe they are burdened by a triple social stigma: as women, black, and lesbians.
Organiser Reno Sammut said the social stigma attached to tattooing was disappearing and the industry was booming.
The social stigma of illegitimacy has disappeared, and single parent families are considered part of the norm.
It also helps to ameliorate the social stigma and incapacity to function independently that illiterate people often face.
The social stigma attached to gambling is still strong, despite the change in business practices over the past decade.
Other pledges are aimed at improving the quality of life of patients, and reducing the social stigma they often suffer.
For a long time that social stigma, combined with restrictive planning rules and a powerful heritage lobby, inhibited further lofty schemes.
The BBC's Prudent Nsengiyumva in the capital, Kigali, says many abuses go unreported because of the social stigma surrounding them, especially rape.
Our correspondent says gays and lesbians in Ghana maintain their relationships underground because of the social stigma associated with their sexual orientation.
Those economic challenges are in addition to the tax hikes, smoking bans, health concerns and social stigma that have made the cigarette business tougher.
But many people don't understand the effects of the condition and as Freeland discovered, in parts of Africa albinos often suffer social stigma, prejudice and even attacks.
Smokers face tax increases, bans, health concerns and social stigma worldwide, but the effect of those on cigarette demand generally is less stark outside the United States.
Because of the social stigma associated with vice investments like tobacco, alcohol and firearms, many institutional investors shun them, either by choice or by socially-responsible investment mandate.
Personal bankruptcy has become easier, less tarred with social stigma, and more common: according to the American Bankruptcy Association, between 1.3m and 1.4m people will declare bankruptcy this year.
There was also a social stigma around sharing.
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Not only is there a law against it -- but there is a such a social stigma that goes along with being gay in India that there is a reluctance to talk about the issue openly.
Campaigners say children are sexually abused by relatives, neighbours, at school and at care homes for orphans and that most of the cases go unreported because in India's traditional system, parents and families are afraid of attracting social stigma.
The stigma of social housing can often be eliminated by making it indistinguishable from neighbouring private housing.
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Ravi Zacharias cites three worrisome trends: Secularization resulting in the loss of stigma around anti-social behavior.
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Ida Magli, an anthropologist, has come up with another reason: childlessness no longer bears a stigma, and the social pressure to marry and have children is much weaker.
The result is often further stigma, discrimination and social exclusion.
Just as there is less stigma attached to financial problems, so the rise of Social Security and Medicare has sharply reduced the financial uncertainty of old age.
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Other students are turning toward computer science because of a change in social mores: A backlash against Wall Street bailouts means careers in the financial sector may now carry a negative stigma, said Adam Cannon, associate chair for undergraduate education in Columbia's department of computer science.
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