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Nicholas D. Kristof

Nicholas Donabet Kristof (born April 27, 1959) is an American journalist and political commentator. A winner of two Pulitzer Prizes, he is a regular CNN contributor and has written an op-ed column for The New York Times since November 2001. Kristoff is a self-described progressive. According to The Washington Post, Kristof "rewrote opinion journalism" with his emphasis on human rights abuses and social injustices, such as human trafficking and the Darfur conflict. Archbishop Desmond Tutu of South Africa has described Kristof as an "honorary African" for shining a spotlight on neglected conflicts.

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A few countries like Sri Lanka and Honduras have led the way in slashing maternal mortality.

Country, Led, Mortality, Sri, Sri Lanka, Way

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

Breakthrough, Long, Sex, Struggle, Trafficking

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.

Armed, Burning, Children, North, People, War

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

Billion, Food, Pet, World, Year, Years

There are ten times as many sex slaves transported around the globe today as agrarian slaves were transported in the 1790s.

Agrarian, Politics, Sex, Ten, Today

Abortion politics have distracted all sides from what is really essential: a major aid campaign to improve midwifery, prenatal care and emergency obstetric services in poor countries.

Country, Abortion, Essentials, Services, Emergency, Countries

The equivalent of five jumbo jets' worth of women die in labor each day, but the issue is almost never covered.

Each Day, Equivalent, Issues, Jumbo, Labor, Worth

One of the great failings of the American education system (in our view) is that young people can graduate from university without any understanding of poverty at home or abroad.

American, Home, People, View, Views

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

Confirms, Information, Internet, Prejudice, Seek, Select

The bulk of the emails tend to come after a column. I can get about 2,000 after a column.

Column, Columns, Email, Emails, Literature, Tend

Neither left nor right has focused adequately on maternal health

Adequately, Focused, Left, Maternal, Maternal Health, Right

Rising seas create a higher baseline for future storm surges. The New York City Panel on Climate Change has projected that coastal waters may rise by two feet by 2050 and four feet by the end of the century.

Baseline, City, Create, Feet, New York, Two

I try to be careful about wording. One of the things I've tried to combat in my blog is the notion that journalists are arrogant and unconcerned with the readership.

Arrogant, Blog, Literature, Tried, Trying, Unconcerned

Write letters to your editors, write to your members of Congress, and write to your news stations.

Congress, Editors, Letters, Members, News, Writing

Most of the villagers were hiding in the bush, where they were dying from bad water, malaria and malnutrition

Dying, Malaria, Malnutrition, Water

We tie ourselves in knots when we act as if democracy is good for the United States and Israel but not for the Arab world. For far too long, we've treated the Arab world as just an oil field.

Spring, Ties, Israel, Knots, Tie

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 women's power as economic catalysts. That is the process under way - not a drama of victimization but of empowerment, the kind that transforms bubbly teenage girls from brothel slaves into successful businesswomen. This is a story of transformation. It is change that is already taking place, and change that can accelerate if you'll just open your heart and join in.

Brothel, Change, Drama, Girl, Recruit, Teenage

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

Book, Extremism, Girl, Girls, Reading

Sometimes I wish eastern Congo could suffer an earthquake or a tsunami, so that it might finally get the attention it needs. The barbaric civil war being waged here is the most lethal conflict since World War II and has claimed at least 30 times as many lives as the Haiti earthquake.

Attention, Earthquakes, Haiti, Lives, Suffering, War

I think when hundreds of thousands of lives are on the line, you might have to set aside some principles.

Aside, Lines, Principles, Set, Thinking, Thousands

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