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The U.N. Population Fund has a maternal health program in some Cameroon hospitals, but it doesn't operate in this region. It's difficult to expand, because President Bush has cut funding
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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
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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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It really is quite remarkable that Darfur has become a household name. I am gratified that's the case.
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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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Compassion isn't a sign of weakness, but a mark of civilization.
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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 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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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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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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...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 have often tried to tell the story of a place through people there.
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I think that [Donald] Trump is frankly a bigot. He has a racist history.
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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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Laws matter, but typically changing the law by itself accomplishes little.
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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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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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If the U.S. wants to help people in tsunami-hit countries like Sri Lanka and Indonesia - not to mention other poor countries in Africa - there's one step that would cost us nothing and would save hundreds of thousands of lives. It would be to allow DDT in malaria-ravaged countries.
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