The north of the Central African Republic is now a war zone, with rival armed bands burning villages, kidnapping children, robbing travelers and killing people with impunity.

If you just try to make rational arguments about why people should care about Congo and how 5 million people have died, then people tend not to be receptive. But once you've created a connection of empathy, rational arguments can play a supportive role.

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

The equivalent of five jumbo jets' worth of women die in labor each day, but the issue is almost never covered.

The conflict in Darfur could escalate to where we're seeing 100,000 victims per month

Neither left nor right has focused adequately on maternal health

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.