Updates & Legacy — Stigmabase is a Canadian Non-Governmental & Nonprofit Initiative. Our mission is to inform about stigma around the world and make the data collected accessible for researchers. Stigmabase is very attentive to misinformation and lists only reliable sources. — The marginalization of individuals or categories of individuals is a too common phenomenon. Millions of people are facing this problem around the world and many complex factors are involved.
| The prison carries a huge amount of symbolism. It is seen as emblematic of America's
power in Afghanistan and has become a central pillar of President Hamid
Karzai's struggle to regain control of key matters before the US
withdraws combat troops next year. |  |