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It is better to inconsistently save some lives than to consistently save none.

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A few countries like Sri Lanka and Honduras have led the way in slashing maternal mortality.
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In general, talking about human rights tends to be very persuasive for people who care about human rights.
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A little bit of attention can go a long way.
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In much of the world, the most dangerous thing a woman can do is become pregnant.
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The equivalent of five jumbo jets' worth of women die in labor each day, but the issue is almost never covered.
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Photographs are still being taken but aren't being shown. There's one of a skeleton bound at the wrists with pants still around its ankles if it was a woman, she was likely raped if it was a man, he was possibly castrated.
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Random violence is incredibly infectious
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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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Rising seas create a higher baseline for future storm surges. The New York City Panel on Climate Change has projected that coastal waters may rise by two feet by 2050 and four feet by the end of the century.
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Sometimes I wish eastern Congo could suffer an earthquake or a tsunami, so that it might finally get the attention it needs. The barbaric civil war being waged here is the most lethal conflict since World War II and has claimed at least 30 times as many lives as the Haiti earthquake.
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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.
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We all might ask ourselves why we tune in to these more trivial matters and tune out when it comes to Darfur
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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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Look, we'll have to confront the pathologies of poverty at some point. We can deal with them cheaply at the front end, in infancy. Or we can wait and jail a troubled adolescent at the tail end. To some extent, we face a choice between investing in preschools or in prisons.
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There isn't a political price to be paid yet for doing nothing. People need to get upset with President Bush. People need to get upset with their Congressmen.
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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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...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 think it's dangerous to be optimistic.
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In the long struggle against sex trafficking, we finally have a breakthrough!
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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 to shore up Chad and the Central African Republic.
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