In this post, we look at how human rights offer protection for women facing gender-based violence. Poverty, inequality and unemployment are conditions under which violence thrives. However, the figures showed it was not enough.
Us stock indexes hit record intraday highs for the second straight day on Tuesday, with the Dow topping 19,000 and the S&P 500 moving past 2,200 as the post-election rally continued.
The China Daily, the official state-run English-language newspaper, said many Chinese commentators were revelling in the demise of the TPP, and called it an “excessively complex” deal that was “doomed from the start”.
23 officially confirmed to India that its top diplomat will attend a global conference on Afghanistan in Amritsar early next month amid intensifying deadly military tensions between New Delhi and Islamabad.
The US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has proposed voluntary guidelines [PDF] created to reduce driver distraction by mobile devices in vehicles. NHTSA doesn’t want passengers to be blocked from full use of their device, however, so it also asks for the...
The euro, which is vulnerable to a slew of political risks including an Italian constitutional referendum next month and French and German elections next year, hit an 11-month low of $1.0567.
Trump said he did not want to inflict any more suffering on Hillary Clinton, explaining why he did not intend to investigate Clinton for her handling of classified information or the dealings of the Clinton Foundation.
It was expected to touch almost every sector of the USA economy and have the greatest impact on nonprofit groups, retail companies, hotels and restaurants, which have many management workers whose salaries are below the new threshold.
Analysts seemed unconvinced, however, that the late-phase trial, which treated more than 2,000 patients with a mild form of Alzheimer’s disease, could have met its goal.
While waiting for the in-coming U.S. president to make his climate position clear, many now look to the rest of the world to bolster the Paris Agreement.