A recent study by the Center for Economic Policy Research says that, in order to ease imbalances, the European Union needs to ma

A recent study by the Center for Economic Policy Research, or CEPR, in London says the best way to ease imbalances would be for Asian governments, the United States and the European Union to coordinate policy. It says that while Asia needs to make changes, the US also has to save more and cut spending.

Violence against women nullifies their enjoyment of human rights. That is the focus of a declaration of women foreign ministers attending the annual six-week session of the UN Human Rights Commission in Geneva. The initiative on violence against women seeks to turn the indifference surrounding women’s human rights into sincere engagement for the protection and advancement of women. Austria’s Foreign Minister, Benita Ferrero-Waldner, warns that gender-based violence is perhaps the most shameful human rights violation.