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.

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

One of the principles of journalism is you don't lie. You never lie.

It really is quite remarkable that Darfur has become a household name. I am gratified that's the case.

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

The way you get leaders to care about issues of conscience is to apply political pressure. It's less a question of persuading leaders directly and more trying to build a social movement that holds their feet to the fire.

Solar power is one of the most hopeful technologies but still produces about 0.01 percent of U.S. electricity. The U.S. allocates just $159 million for solar research per year - about what we spend in Iraq every nine hours.