Random Violence Is Incredibly Infectious

The Bulk Of The Emails Tend To Come After A Column. I Can Get About 2,000 After A Column.

More Girls Were Killed In The Last 50 Years, Precisely Because They Were Girls, Than Men Killed In All The Wars In The 20th Century. More Girls Are Killed In This Routine Gendercide In Any One Decade Than People Were Slaughtered In All The Genocides Of The 20th Century. The Equivalent Of 5 Jumbo Jets Worth Of Women Die In Labor Each Day... Life Time Risk Of Maternal Death Is 1,000x Higher In A Poor Country Than In The West. That Should Be An International Scandal.

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.

I Have Often Tried To Tell The Story Of A Place Through People There.

The Way You Get Leaders To Care About Issues Of Conscience Is To Apply Political Pressure. It's Less A Question Of Persuading Leaders Directly And More Trying To Build A Social Movement That Holds Their Feet To The Fire.