For lack of a few pinches of ordinary iodised table salt in the diet of a third world pregnant mother, a child can lose up to ten IQ (Intelligence Quotient) points.

The tools to crush modern slavery exist, but the political will is lacking.

It's no accident that the countries that have enjoyed an economic take off have been those that educated girls and then gave them the autonomy to move to the cities to find work

In contrast, Western historians, and those in South Korea, say the North attacked the South on June 25, 1950. Both sides agree that after the war began, the North Korean Army captured Seoul in three days and pushed as far south as Pusan before American troops arrived to drive back the North Koreans nearly as far north as the border to China.

One of the best ways to fight poverty and to fight terrorism is to educate girls and bring women into the formal labor force.

Our focus has to be on changing reality, not changing laws.

When the history of African development is written, it will be clear that a turning point involved the empowerment of women.