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In much of the world, the most dangerous thing a woman can do is become pregnant.

A little bit of attention can go a long way.

Some degree of prostitution will probably always be with us, but we need not acquiesce to widespread sexual slavery.

Random violence is incredibly infectious.

It's time for a 21st-century abolitionist movement in the U.S and around the world.

I have often tried to tell the story of a place through people there.

We all might ask ourselves why we tune in to these more trivial matters and tune out when it comes to Darfur.

The fact that people will pay you to talk to people and travel to interesting places and write about what intrigues you, I am just amazed by that.

Isn't it time to talk not only about weather, but also about climate?

All of a sudden their husband's dead and maybe a child is dead and they have absolutely nothing - and they're heading through the desert at night.

The world spends $40 billion a year on pet food.

But they had learned an important lesson about how defeating poverty is more difficult than it seems at first.

The tide of history is turning women from beasts of burden and sexual playthings into full-fledged human beings.

In many poor countries, the problem is not so much individual thugs and rapists but an entire culture of sexual predation.

The equivalent of five jumbo jets' worth of women die in labor each day, but the issue is almost never covered.

Most of us employ the Internet not to seek the best information, but rather to select information that confirms our prejudices .

The conflict in Darfur could escalate to where we're seeing 100,000 victims per month.

Once you've created a connection of empathy, rational arguments can play a supportive role.

It is better to inconsistently save some lives than to consistently save none.

You will be judged in years to come by how you responded to genocide on your watch.

I think it's dangerous to be optimistic. Things could go terribly wrong virtually overnight.

To be born poor in America today is to have a much smaller chance statistically of entering the middle class than was true a generation ago.

Every year 3.1 million Indian children die before the age of 5, mostly from diseases of poverty like diarrhea.

It really is quite remarkable that Darfur has become a household name. I am gratified that's the case.

In the long struggle against sex trafficking, we finally have a breakthrough!

It's easy to keep issuing blame to Republicans or the president.

A few countries like Sri Lanka and Honduras have led the way in slashing maternal mortality.

Sexism and misogyny. How else to explain why so many more witches were burned than wizards?

Women aren't the problem but the solution. The plight of girls is no more a tragedy than an opportunity.

Neither Western donor countries like the U.S. nor poor recipients like Cameroon care much about Africans who are poor, rural and female.

Neither left nor right has focused adequately on maternal health.

Most of the villagers were hiding in the bush, where they were dying from bad water, malaria and malnutrition.

When women gain a voice in society, there's evidence of less violence.

Teaching in a village school in Nepal was a freaking piece of cake compared to teaching in my native land.

Half a million women die each year around the world in pregnancy. It's not biology that kills them so much as neglect.

Here, in impoverished northern India state of Bihar, near the Nepalese border, there's not much else available commercially-- except sex.

In general, talking about human rights tends to be very persuasive for people who care about human rights.

You educate a boy, and you're educating an individual. You educate a girl, and you're educating a village.

-African Proverb

Environmental groups are too often alarmists. They have an awful track record, so they've lost credibility with the public.

While Americans have heard of Darfur and think we should be doing more there, they aren't actually angry at the president about inaction.

1266What matters to the children's well-being isn't so much the level of the family's wealth as whether it is controlled by the mother or the father.

Just a little help, a small security force, a bit of food, can save lives.

There are ten times as many sex slaves transported around the globe today as agrarian slaves were transported in the 1790s.

The bulk of the emails tend to come after a column. I can get about 2,000 after a column.

Was given as a first-world citizen, and I believe it is my responsibility to work so that these opportunities are available to all.

You don't need to invade a place or install a new government to help bring about a positive change.

Even though we are peripheral to the slavery, our action is necessary to overcome a horrific evil.

Americans of faith should try as hard to save the lives of African women as the lives of unborn fetuses.