Neither Western donor countries like the U.S. nor poor recipients like Cameroon care much about Africans who are poor, rural and female
Nicholas D. KristofThere are ten times as many sex slaves transported around the globe today as agrarian slaves were transported in the 1790s.
Nicholas D. KristofYou don't need to invade a place or install a new government to help bring about a positive change.
Nicholas D. KristofMore girls were killed in the last 50 years, precisely because they were girls, than men killed in all the wars in the 20th century. More girls are killed in this routine gendercide in any one decade than people were slaughtered in all the genocides of the 20th century. The equivalent of 5 jumbo jets worth of women die in labor each day... life time risk of maternal death is 1,000x higher in a poor country than in the west. That should be an international scandal.
Nicholas D. Kristof