First Things RSS Feed - Susan Yoshihara https://www.firstthings.com/author/susan-yoshihara en-us Copyright 2025 First Things. All Rights Reserved. ft@firstthings.com (The Editors) ft@firstthings.com (The Editors) Mon, 20 Jan 2025 16:56:54 -0500 https://d2201k5v4hmrsv.cloudfront.net/img/favicon-196.png First Things RSS Feed Image https://www.firstthings.com/rss/author/susan-yoshihara 60 How to Think About the Responsibility to Protect https://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2008/06/how-to-think-about-the-respons https://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2008/06/how-to-think-about-the-respons Mon, 16 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0400 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 override the Burmese government’s intransigence and thus deliver live-saving aid. For weeks, aid trickled in as planes sat on runways and ships sat offshore. Tragically, more than a million survivors have yet to receive assistance, and this after suffering decades of abuse from their government.

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]]> The False Choice Between Development and Daughters https://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2007/08/the-false-choice-between-development-and-daughters https://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2007/08/the-false-choice-between-development-and-daughters Thu, 23 Aug 2007 00:00:00 -0400 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 or uneducated. One thing is certain: She is not alone. She is part of a growing global trend of sex selective abortion and infanticide that favors sons and proves deadly for daughters. The practice, once thought to be unique to China and India, is catching on in Central Asia, Latin America, and the rest of the world. In an era when girls can rightly aspire to unprecedented status alongside their brothers, why are more parents choosing not to let them live?

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