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One of the things that really got to me was talking to parents who had been burned out of their villages, had family members killed, and then when men showed up at the wells to get water, they were shot.
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It's easy to keep issuing blame to Republicans or the president.
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Just a little help, a small security force, a bit of food, can save lives.
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You would see people going back to homes that had been burned, putting thatch over their structures again. They still couldn't leave the area without the danger of men being killed or women being raped, but it was a start.
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The bulk of the emails tend to come after a column. I can get about 2,000 after a column.
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You don't need to invade a place or install a new government to help bring about a positive change.
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The U.N. Population Fund has a maternal health program in some Cameroon hospitals, but it doesn't operate in this region. It's difficult to expand, because President Bush has cut funding.
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There is an element of anger among women who've been raped. There's certainly a major element of humiliation. But it really does seem like a medical condition of shock and horror.
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The north of the Central African Republic is now a war zone, with rival armed bands burning villages, kidnapping children, robbing travelers and killing people with impunity.
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Most of the villagers were hiding in the bush, where they were dying from bad water, malaria and malnutrition.
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There are other issues I have felt more emotionally connected to, like China, where I lived and worked for some time. I was living there when Tiananmen Square erupted.
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Half a million women die each year around the world in pregnancy. It's not biology that kills them so much as neglect.
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There isn't a political price to be paid yet for doing nothing. People need to get upset with President Bush. People need to get upset with their Congressmen.
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