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

The news media's silence, particularly television news, is reprehensible. If we knew as much about Darfur as we do about Michael Jackson, we might be able to stop these things from continuing.

Palestinian militancy has accomplished nothing but increasing the misery of the Palestinian people. If Palestinians instead turned more to huge Gandhi-style nonviolence resistance campaigns, the resulting videos would reverberate around the world and Palestine would achieve statehood and freedom.

If only women are talking about women's rights, then the issue has failed from the start. If you think about the Holocaust, that wasn't just a Jewish issue. Civil rights weren't just a black issue.

America's education system has become less a ladder of opportunity than a structure to transmit inequity from one generation to the next.

A little bit of attention can go a long way.

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