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Conservatives, who have presumed that the key to preventing AIDS is abstinence-only education, and liberals, who have focused on distribution of condo...more

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

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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 unlocking...more

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The tide of history is turning women from beasts of burden and sexual playthings into full-fledged human beings.

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Anybody who has spent time in Indian brothels and also, say, at Indian brick kilns knows that it is better to be enslaved working a kiln. Kiln workers...more

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

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Here, in impoverished northern India state of Bihar, near the Nepalese border, there's not much else available commercially-- except sex.

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Imagine the outcry if the Pakistani or Indian governments were burning women alive at those rates. Yet when the government is not directly involved pe...more

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There are 2-3 millions prostitutes in India, and although many of them now sell sex to some degree willingly, and are paid, a significant share of the...more

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Rescuing girls from brothels is the easy part, however. The challenge is keeping them from returning. The stigma that girls feel in their communities ...more

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In India, a "bride burning"-- to punish a woman for inadequate dowry or to eliminate her so a man can remarry-- takes place approximately once every t...more