The fact that people will pay you to talk to people and travel to interesting places and write about what intrigues you, I am just amazed by that.

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

A few countries like Sri Lanka and Honduras have led the way in slashing maternal mortality.

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

Every year 3.1 million Indian children die before the age of 5, mostly from diseases of poverty like diarrhea.

In the nineteenth century, the central moral challenge was slavery. In the twentieth century, it was the battle against totalitarianism. We believe that in this century the paramount moral challenge will be the struggle for gender equality around the world.

Sometimes I wish eastern Congo could suffer an earthquake or a tsunami, so that it might finally get the attention it needs. The barbaric civil war being waged here is the most lethal conflict since World War II and has claimed at least 30 times as many lives as the Haiti earthquake.