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- 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…
- Abortion politics have distracted all sides from what is really essential: a major aid campaign to improve midwifery, prenatal care and emergency obstetric services in…
- Every year 3.1 million Indian children die before the age of 5, mostly from diseases of poverty like diarrhea.
- Most of the villagers were hiding in the bush, where they were dying from bad water, malaria and malnutrition
- When anesthesia was developed, it was for many decades routinely withheld from women giving birth, since women were "supposed" to suffer. One of the few…
- So let us be clear about this up front: We hope to recruit you to join an incipient movement to emancipate women and fight global…
- The tide of history is turning women from beasts of burden and sexual playthings into full-fledged human beings.
- One of the great failings of the American education system (in our view) is that young people can graduate from university without any understanding of…
- As soon as I was old enough to drive, I got a job at a local newspaper. There was someone who influenced me. He wrote…
- The news media's silence, particularly television news, is reprehensible. If we knew as much about Darfur as we do about Michael Jackson, we might be…
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