The thugs in Bangladesh are repressing a strike by garment workers. They are paid very little and are forced to work in dangerous conditions.

Nepal is pressuring families quite firmly to stop confining women to special huts when they are menstruating, and to let girls go to school when menstruating.

The UK has a tradition of consulting organizations of patients and disabled people to improve the services for them, but this is falling by the wayside.

Oakland, California, is moving people from sidewalks to sheds, whether they like it or not.

A shed could be physically better and some people could be glad to move to one. But the sheds require people to have roommates even if they can't get along. Those who feel unsafe in them are forbidden to go back to the sidewalk.

I don't see any reason Oakland can't offer sheds to those who prefer them while also allowing encampments.

Women in Nigeria who escaped from Boko Haram have freedom, to the extent a woman can have freedom in that patriarchal culture, but they can't get work and go hungry. Some of them go back to Boko Haram.