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Conservatives, who have presumed that the key to preventing AIDS is abstinence-only education, and liberals, who have focused on distribution of condoms, should both note that the intervention that has tested most cost-effective in Africa is neither... Secular bleeding hearts and religious bleeding hearts will have to forge a common cause.
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Just a little help, a small security force, a bit of food, can save lives
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The greatest threat to extremism isn't drones firing missiles, but girls reading books.
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Usually people are very much focused on keeping their kids alive.
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A few countries like Sri Lanka and Honduras have led the way in slashing maternal mortality.
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Americans of faith should try as hard to save the lives of African women as the lives of unborn fetuses.
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A little bit of attention can go a long way.
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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 poor countries.
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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.
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...Environmental groups are too often alarmists. They have an awful track record, so they've lost credibility with the public.
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I try to be careful about wording. One of the things I've tried to combat in my blog is the notion that journalists are arrogant and unconcerned with the readership.
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Neither Western donor countries like the U.S. nor poor recipients like Cameroon care much about Africans who are poor, rural and female
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There are ten times as many sex slaves transported around the globe today as agrarian slaves were transported in the 1790s.
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The photos were taken by African Union soldiers. People in Congress saw them. I thought if people could see them, there would be public outcry. No one would be able to say, We just didn't know what was going on there.
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In the nineteenth century, the central moral challenge was slavery. In the twentieth century, it was the battle against totalitarianism. We believe that in this century the paramount moral challenge will be the struggle for gender equality around the world.
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Neither left nor right has focused adequately on maternal health
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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 poverty at home or abroad.
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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.
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I think when hundreds of thousands of lives are on the line, you might have to set aside some principles.
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One of the things that really got to me was talking to parents who had been burned out of their villages, had family members killed, and then when men showed up at the wells to get water, they were shot
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