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

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

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.

I try to be careful about wording. One of the things I've tried to combat in my blog is the notion that journalists are arrogant and unconcerned with the readership.

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

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

The greatest threat to extremism isn't drones firing missiles, but girls reading books.