Abul Kamal Azad was lured into borrowing thousands of dollars to get a job in London. There his sponsor enslaved him. He couldn't refuse, because his sponsor could have him deported at any time.

After he and his fellow slaves testified against their enslaver, they were threatened with deportation. But if they went back to Bangladesh without paying their debts, the money lenders might kill their families.

That threat is the other key to the situation, as it makes almost any resolution hopeless.

Other injustices appear in the background. What enabled him to sell his wife's jewelry — was he trampling her rights so he could lose her money as well as his own?

In an overpopulated place like Bangladesh, circumstances will inevitably put many people into desperate situations where they feel impelled to take bad risks. Some will end up destitute; the only uncertainty is whom and how. To have children in such a situation is simply wrong. What Bangladesh needs most is a lot fewer children.

Millions of girls live in cultures where menstruation is taboo, and they don't understand what is happening or what is best to do. Some have to sell sex in order to get pads to wear.

Some skip school while menstruating, because they would be sneered at in class.

This is patriarchy at work, aided by its faithful servant, religion.

The Israeli human rights organization B'Tselem has given up complaining to military courts about the crimes of occupation soldiers. These courts are so biased that reporting crimes to them is useless.

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