"While Americans have heard of Darfur and think……" — Nicholas D. Kristof
"While Americans have heard of Darfur and think we should be doing more there, they aren't actually angry at the president about inaction"
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- I think it's dangerous to be optimistic. Things could go terribly wrong virtually overnight
- There could be a powerful international women's rights movement if only philanthropists would donate as much to real women as…
- Conservatives, who have presumed that the key to preventing AIDS is abstinence-only education, and liberals, who have focused on distribution…
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- The world spends $40 billion a year on pet food.
- Women aren't the problem but the solution. The plight of girls is no more a tragedy than an opportunity.
- The equivalent of five jumbo jets' worth of women die in labor each day, but the issue is almost never…
- Americans of faith should try as hard to save the lives of African women as the lives of unborn fetuses.
- A few countries like Sri Lanka and Honduras have led the way in slashing maternal mortality.