A Few Countries Like Sri Lanka And

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.

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 Step That Would Cost Us Nothing And Would Save Hundreds Of Thousands Of Lives. It Would Be To Allow Ddt In Malaria-ravaged Countries.

The Conflict In Darfur Could Escalate To Where We're Seeing 100,000 Victims Per Month

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

A Little Bit Of Attention Can Go A Long Way.