What China's hukou permit costs a rural migrant
China's hukou ties welfare to where you are registered. Rural migrants in cities earn less, struggle to get welfare, and often leave their children behind.
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North Korea ranks people by what their grandparents did
North Korea's songbun system grades each person by family background and loyalty, and shapes where they live, study and work, a UN panel and researchers say.
Red notices: Interpol's nearest thing to a global warrant
Interpol runs no manhunts of its own. It links police across 196 countries, and the Guardian found some regimes using that channel against critics.
Haiti's restavek children work for their keep, not a wage
A restavek in Haiti is a child sent by poor parents to live with another household, where they fetch water, clean and mind children instead of school.
Pakistani police shot Dhaka students demanding language rights
Police shot Bengali-speaking students in Dhaka in 1952 after they defied a ban on assembly. The protest helped shape Bangladesh's 1971 founding.
Europe's only banned theatre company still performs, from exile
Belarus Free Theatre is the only company in Europe prohibited on political grounds. Its members left Minsk for London, and kept staging work from there.
A V&A exhibition shows what accessible design means
The V&A shows a vibrating harness for deaf gig-goers and a font from protest placards. A US advocate says cities should consult disabled people early.
Australia's Stolen Generations survivors still wait on redress
Nearly 30 years after the Bringing Them Home inquiry, the Healing Foundation says Stolen Generations survivors still lack records, care and redress.
Argentine adults can change legal gender with no doctor or judge
Argentina's 2012 Gender Identity Law lets adults change the gender and name on official papers by their own declaration, and puts treatment on health plans.
Every UN member but the US signed the children's rights treaty
The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child sets out what every under-18 is owed, from a name to contact with both parents. Scotland made it law in 2024.