Domestic violence has long been a taboo subject in Armenian circles.

Due to its embarrassing nature and the shame felt by sufferers, the subject was taboo for a long time, and is the subject of many urban legends.

Mao s Cultural Revolution was launched 40 years ago this month, yet, despite 20 years of economic liberalization, its wounds remain a taboo subject.

Now, with drug companies increasingly seeking to develop medications that target particular racial groups, the long taboo subject of racial genetics has reemerged.

In 2003 a plan of action was presented for opening up discussion on domestic violence in ethnic minority communities, where it is very much a taboo subject.

Domestic violence was a taboo subject in Benin, as elsewhere, and any problems were generally settled within the immediate family itself or with the assistance of moral or village authorities.

Yet our leaders consider these subjects taboo.

Today, the topic of political reform is taboo.

The HIV AIDS leadership programme of UNDP mobilized people in Cambodia, 45 per cent of whom were women, to bring the taboo subject of sexual behaviours that fuel the pandemic into the public debate.

Despite a longstanding taboo against using nuclear weapons, disarmament remains only an aspiration. So, is a taboo merely on the use of such weapons sufficient?

Is it a taboo to talk about Palestine today?

One example is Eurobonds, which Merkel has declared taboo.

Kissing and fondling in public, even by spouses, is taboo.

Indeed, much of what happened under Chairman Mao remains taboo.

Sex without marriage is still a taboo in Muslim majority Bangladesh.

Fundamental reform of the Common Agricultural Policy should not remain a taboo.

But, until now, it was taboo to discuss Putin s private life publically.

So, is a taboo merely on the use of such weapons sufficient?

She ll teach them there is nothing taboo about wanting to stay alive.

Layma said to me later, It's a taboo, you know, in West Africa.

Although homosexuality remains taboo, gays seem safe. Physical attacks against them are rare.

Despite a longstanding taboo against using nuclear weapons, disarmament remains only an aspiration.

The Government is also supporting initiatives to break the silence on taboo subjects.

While lack of sanitation impacts everyone, the taboo around toilets can disproportionately affect women.

The debate on innovative mechanisms for the financing of development is no longer taboo.

It used to be that even mentioning corruption in some official circles was considered taboo.

But these same men think it s taboo for their women to go to a gynecologist.

The point of Holocaust denial is to remove the taboo now associated with the original crime.

I heard that until very recently AIDS was seen as such a taboo even by doctors.

Young people don t know, because most parents have shut up about it, lest they get themselves and their children in trouble, and because the subject is never mentioned in the official Chinese media it is a taboo. Websites mentioning the events of 1989 are closed down.

AV So taboo number three you can't talk about your miscarriage but today I'll talk about mine.

The only question is whether that taboo will fall before or after next year s German general election.

A multicultural society that accepts every taboo of its diverse groups would have little to talk about.

Like most societies discussion of sexual abuse in the family, particularly incest is taboo in Pakistan also.

Cases of sexual violence may go unreported owing to the taboo and stigma attached to being impure .

It has been said that Hiroshima and Nagasaki created a taboo against any further use of nuclear weapons.

Sexual abuse is a taboo and it is, sometimes, practiced in families and the victims know the perpetrators.

Most men on the other hand deterred by fear, ignorance, pride, and, sometimes, taboo refuse to be tested voluntarily.

Perhaps because so many other taboos have fallen, the taboo on sex with children is guarded with almost fanatical zeal.

For example, in most Western countries there is a strong cultural taboo against eating dog, cat, horse, or monkey meat.

You're changing the subject. What was the subject?

Envy, it's a real taboo to mention envy, but if there is one dominant emotion in modern society, that is envy.

AV A quick bonus taboo for you, that we should not be working together, especially with three children and we are.

After World War II, for obvious reasons, the expression of nationalist emotions was virtually taboo in Europe (not least in Germany).

But, ironically, that hasn t necessarily resulted in a higher degree of financial security, owing to the don t talk about money taboo.