More Americans die in gun homicides and suicides in six months than have died in the last 25 years in every terrorist attack and the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq combined.

Neither left nor right has focused adequately on maternal health

We all might ask ourselves why we tune in to these more trivial matters and tune out when it comes to Darfur

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

In the long struggle against sex trafficking, we finally have a breakthrough!

If one is talking to a finance minister of a poor country, moral arguments tend not to get very far. But if you can argue that their country is going to grow 2 percent faster per year if they can just harness the power of the female half of the population more effectively, that is an argument they consider.

Usually people are very much focused on keeping their kids alive.