Once you've created a connection of empathy, rational arguments can play a supportive role..

The world spends $40 billion a year on pet food..

You don't need to invade a place or install a new government to help bring about a positive change..

In general, talking about human rights tends to be very persuasive for people who care about human rights..

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 k….

It is better to inconsistently save some lives than to consistently save none..

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

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 ma….

Individual storytelling is incredibly powerful. We as journalists know intuitively what scientists of the brain are discovering through brain scans, ….

I think that [Donald] Trump is frankly a bigot. He has a racist history..

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 mo….

Women aren't the problem but the solution. The plight of girls is no more a tragedy than an opportunity..

In the nineteenth century, the central moral challenge was slavery. In the twentieth century, it was the battle against totalitarianism. We believe t….

...Environmental groups are too often alarmists. They have an awful track record, so they've lost credibility with the public..

So let us be clear about this up front: We hope to recruit you to join an incipient movement to emancipate women and fight global poverty by unlockin….

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. Meanwhil….

I have often tried to tell the story of a place through people there..

Most of us employ the Internet not to seek the best information, but rather to select information that confirms our prejudices ..

The greatest threat to extremism isn't drones firing missiles, but girls reading books..

When anesthesia was developed, it was for many decades routinely withheld from women giving birth, since women were "supposed" to suffer. One of the ….

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 ….