Conservatives, who have presumed that the key to preventing AIDS is abstinence-only education, and liberals, who have focused on distribution of condoms, should both note that the intervention that has tested most cost-effective in Africa is neither... Secular bleeding hearts and religious bleeding hearts will have to forge a common cause.

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

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

A little bit of attention can go a long way.

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

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

More 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.