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.

The news media's silence, particularly television news, is reprehensible.

The greatest threat to extremism isn't drones firing missiles, but girls reading books.

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

I think that [Donald] Trump is frankly a bigot. He has a racist history.

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

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