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

There could be a powerful international women's rights movement if only philanthropists would donate as much to real women as to paintings and sculptures of women.

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

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.

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

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.

Write letters to your editors, write to your members of Congress, and write to your news stations.