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

Photographs are still being taken but aren't being shown. There's one of a skeleton bound at the wrists with pants still around its ankles; if it was a woman, she was likely raped; if it was a man, he was possibly castrated.

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

There are other issues I have felt more emotionally connected to, like China, where I lived and worked for some time. I was living there when Tiananmen Square erupted

In much of the world, the most dangerous thing a woman can do is become pregnant.

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

If President Bush is serious about genocide, an immediate priority is to stop the cancer of Darfur from spreading further, which means working with France to shore up Chad and the Central African Republic.