Globalization's irony: Spice Girls t-shirts, sold to raise money to campaign for equality, were made in a factory in Bangladesh by women getting paid around 30 cents per hour.

The book No Logo explained how business-supremacy treaties knocked down the unions that were starting to raise the wages of factory workers in some low-wage countries.

The article also shows, tangentially, how the practice of despising sex workers is tied into broader misogyny.

The British Commonwealth disregards its charter about democracy and human rights by hosting a summit in Rwanda.

The Philippines government approved an "autonomous region" for the part of Mindanao inhabited mostly by Muslims.

The article does not say whether the agreement reduces freedom of religion and other human rights in that region. Islamic law tramples various human rights, so there is reason to be concerned about that danger.

Nicaraguan thugs raided an opposition news publisher; the editor has fled to exile in Costa Rica.

Martin Luther King held views that were labeled as radical.

Nowadays, they are not so radical — many of them are supported by most Americans.