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How to Think About the Responsibility to Protect

Susan Yoshihara

When Cyclone Nargis hit Burma a month ago, killing as many as a hundred thousand people, the French foreign minister invoked the “responsibility to protect” as a way to...

The False Choice Between Development and Daughters

Susan Yoshihara

Right now, in almost any corner of the world, a baby girl is being killed just because she is a girl. Her mother may be rich or poor, educated...