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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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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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All of a sudden their husband's dead and maybe a child is dead and they have absolutely nothing - and they're heading through the desert at night.
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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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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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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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The conflict in Darfur could escalate to where we're seeing 100,000 victims per month
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China was probably the worst place in the world to grow up female 100 years ago. There was foot binding, female infanticide, concubinage, and child marriage, and now it's one of the better places. So I really do feel that we're on the right side of history here.
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Compassion isn't a sign of weakness, but a mark of civilization.
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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 few countries like Sri Lanka and Honduras have led the way in slashing maternal mortality.
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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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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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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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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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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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Neither left nor right has focused adequately on maternal health
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Just a little help, a small security force, a bit of food, can save lives
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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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