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In the long struggle against sex trafficking, we finally have a breakthrough!

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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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There seems to be this sense among even well-meaning Americans that Africa is this black hole of murder and mutilation that can never be fixed, no matter what aid is brought in.
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In much of the world, the most dangerous thing a woman can do is become pregnant.
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Neither left nor right has focused adequately on maternal health
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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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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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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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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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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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It really is quite remarkable that Darfur has become a household name. I am gratified that's the case.
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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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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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If one is talking to a finance minister of a poor country, moral arguments tend not to get very far. But if you can argue that their country is going to grow 2 percent faster per year if they can just harness the power of the female half of the population more effectively, that is an argument they consider.
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The greatest threat to extremism isn't drones firing missiles, but girls reading books.
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Just a little help, a small security force, a bit of food, can save lives
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A few countries like Sri Lanka and Honduras have led the way in slashing maternal mortality.
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The tide of history is turning women from beasts of burden and sexual playthings into full-fledged human beings.
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We tie ourselves in knots when we act as if democracy is good for the United States and Israel but not for the Arab world. For far too long, we've treated the Arab world as just an oil field.
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Our nearly century-long experiment in banning marijuana has failed as abysmally as Prohibition did... In contrast, legalizing and taxing marijuana would bring in substantial sums that could be used to pay for schools, libraries or early childhood education.
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Compassion isn't a sign of weakness, but a mark of civilization.
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