A woman with a child cycles in June 2011 past an advertisement for a developer on the walls of the demolished neighborhood where Professor Zhao Fengping had her home in Zhengzhou in north central China's Henan province. Trying to save her octogenarian mother from eviction and her childhood home from being razed, Zhao, who teaches public administration at Zhengzhou University, turned to China's new information disclosure rules. In records she obtained, she found lapses and glaring mistakes that should have stopped the project. But the wrecking crews came in November 2010. Zhao's mother, a widow in her 80s, lost her home and now lives with each of her children in turn. The process plunged Zhao into depression for weeks. She says right-to-know laws mean nothing without a more open political system, where people can use the information to change policies and fight for their rights. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)
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