The Walk Free Foundation notes that people who are "linguistically isolated, culturally disoriented, subjected to crushing debts and have little to no knowledge of their rights" are most at risk.
We are one family, but across the globe women's access to civic participation, employment and other basic human rights are constricted by normative social structures within which they are subjected to culturally accepted cycles of physical abuse, exploitation and violence.
Culturally, the Ryukyuans have been subjected to both Japanese and Chinese influence.
During translation and where required, expressions used in the items were subjected to more culturally acceptable linguistic equivalents similar to concept and meaning to the original items.
Through film and video screenings and installations, Zmijewski tackles a series of politically topical and culturally relevant subjects.
In Kenya, people can use S.M.S. to ask anonymous questions about culturally taboo subjects like AIDS, breast cancer and sexually transmitted diseases, receiving prompt answers from health experts for no charge.
Ms. Ayobami, who studied fiction writing with Ms. Adichie and Margaret Atwood, said she worried at first that Nigerian readers might balk at a novel that hinges on culturally touchy subjects like polygamy, infidelity and belief in magic.
It began with cultural institutions being encouraged to find new ways of bringing people in or going out to people: locally or culturally relevant subject-matter, unconventional venues, outdoor theatre or art.
A decrease in the levels of both adrenocorticotropical hormone (ACTH) and s-prolactin was observed in culturally stimulated subjects, whereas the average baseline s-prolactin level of 7 ng/l for the non-culturally stimulated group was unchanged after the experiment.
Heading the campaign is 80-year-old Boon-ja Lee, who started the organization to encourage Korean Americans to talk about the culturally taboo subject of death and dying.
