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

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

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

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

U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres says human rights are being “suffocated” around the world. He lashed out at voices of ...

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

A panel of United Nations experts on Wednesday warned that the Nicaraguan government has dismantled the last remaining checks ...

Switzerland is concerned about the disengagement of certain states from the UN Human Rights Council, said foreign minister Ignazio Cassis. The United States and Israel are currently boycotting the ...

Army chief Thomas Süssli said that Switzerland could provide around 200 soldiers for a UN peacekeeping mission.

At the seventh meeting of the 58th Session of UN Human Rights Council, India said that Pakistan was a failed state surviving ...

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 ...

Araqchi is going to participate in the high-level segment of the UN Conference on Disarmament and the UN Human Rights Council session to outline Iran’s positions, the ministry’s website reported.