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Who Are the 'Sheroes' In Your Life?

Reena De Asis | Posted 12.02.2012 | Impact
Read More: Sheryl WuDunn, Women, Women's Rights, V-Day, Half the Sky, Rape, Poverty, United Nations, Eve Ensler, Nicholas D. Kristof, Domestic Violence, One Billion Rising, Video, Impact News
Reena De Asis

"Sheroes" are everyday people doing extraordinary things! They are the courageous women and men who actively stand up for women's rights.

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17 Smart Books You Must Read This Summer

Lisa Bloom | Posted 09.13.2011 | Books
Read More: Emma Donoghue, Ann Fessler, Books, Summer Reads, Iris Chang, Jennifer Egan, Dave Eggers, Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn, T. Colin Campbell, Summer Reading, Sheryl WuDunn, Isabel Wilkerson, Barbara Demick, Samantha Power, Lisa See, Jonathan Franzen, Lisa Bloom, Nora Ephron, Peggy Orenstein, Slidepollajax, Carrie Fisher, Jeannette Walls, Nicholas D. Kristof, Jonathan Safran Foer, Books News
Lisa Bloom

How do you find great books to read? Here's a reading list of books that will stir you, provoke you, keep you up at night and make you late for work, and get your grey matter sizzling.

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Why Japan Will Weather This Disaster

Robyn Griggs Lawrence | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Read More: Shiho Kanzaki, Wabi-Sabi, Japan Earthquake, Japan Tsunami, Nicholas D. Kristof, Healthy Living News
Robyn Griggs Lawrence

In the wake of such mega-destruction, human nature compels us to think first of our own friends and loved ones. As the earthquake and tsunami ripped through Japan, my thoughts turned immediately to my friend, Buddhist priest Shiho Kanzaki.

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Shine A Light

Tamsin Smith | Posted 05.25.2011 | Impact
Read More: Honor Killings, Sex Trafficking, Nicholas D. Kristof, Half the Sky Movement, I-Vawa, Impact News
Tamsin Smith

Don't keep turning pages, hoping that the next chapter will be better. Everyday is a blank screen. Switch off the chatter.

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The Time is Ripe, Let's End Contemporary Slavery

Chelsea-Lyn Rudder | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Read More: Melanne Verveer, Women's Rights, Sheryl WuDunn, Caroline Manzo, Human Rights, Half the Sky, President Obama, Human Trafficking, Women's Issues, Chelsea-Lyn Rudder, Demi Moore, Contemporary Slavery, Sex Trafficking, Nyu, Nicholas D. Kristof, Ashton Kutcher, World News
Chelsea-Lyn Rudder

Timeliness is important when confronting a monumental challenge like sex trafficking. However, social change only occurs as a result of an ongoing struggle, and stakeholders cannot sit and wait for the right time.

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Memorandum to: Senator Edward M. Kennedy, the U. S. State Department, the FBI, and President-Elect Obama

Dr. Susan Corso | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Muhammad Tabir Tabassum, Jane Perlez, U. S. State Department, Senator Edward. M. Kennedy, Pakistan, Kashmir, New York Times, Fbi, Nicholas D. Kristof, Inspad, Senator Kennedy, Politics News
Dr. Susan Corso

When I called my senator's office three months ago, I spoke to a sweet intern there. He promised to have Senator Kennedy's foreign affairs people get back to me. They did not.

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