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

Laws matter, but typically changing the law by itself accomplishes little.

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

One of the great failings of the American education system (in our view) is that young people can graduate from university without any understanding of poverty at home or abroad.

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

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

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