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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.

A Few Countries Like Sri Lanka And Honduras Have Led The Way In Slashing Maternal Mortality.

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.

One Thing The Humanitarian World Doesn't Do Well Is Marketing. As A Journalist, I Get Pitched Every Day By Companies That Have New Products. Meanwhile, You Have Issues Like Clean Water, Literacy For Girls, Female Empowerment. People Flinch At The Idea Of Marketing These Because Marketing Sounds Like Something Only Companies Do.

There Are Ten Times As Many Sex Slaves Transported Around The Globe Today As Agrarian Slaves Were Transported In The 1790s.