Children as young as one have been raped by armed men during the conflict in Sudan, the UN said on Tuesday, condemning it as ...

The last negotiations for a treaty to rein in plastic waste ended in a stalemate, but some participants saw signs of a possible breakthrough this summer.

The United Nations Environment Programme on Monday said a new round of negotiations toward a global plastics treaty will take ...

Some Swiss pension funds are managed by American banks. Washington's geopolitical U-turn now calls into question the prudence ...

Countries that favor a plastics treaty with limits on production, along with some product and chemical phase-outs, say they ...

The Algerian authorities have maintained their repression of civic space through a brutal crackdown on the rights to freedom ...

Israel “strongly rejects” an upcoming conference in Switzerland on international humanitarian law in the Middle East, the Foreign Ministry says. “The planned conference is part of the legal warfare ...

The U.N. human rights chief has expressed concern about a “fundamental shift in direction” taking place in the United States ...

Parliament will be debating five popular initiatives in the spring session. Foreign policy will also be the subject of debate ...

Asharq Al Awsat Switzerland said it will host an international conference on March 7 on the protection of Palestinian civilians in the occupied territories, as called for in a United Nations vote.The ...

The Fourth Geneva Convention, part of a series of international treaties agreed in 1949 after World War Two, defines ...

These new objectives coincide with the country's commitment to The Paris Agreement, a legally binding international treaty ...