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 ...

India has slammed UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk's unfounded and baseless remarks in the 58th regular session of the United Nations Human Rights Council regarding the situations in ...

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 ...

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.

Negotiations on the first-ever global treaty to tackle plastic pollution will resume in August in Switzerland after countries were unable to reach an agreement during talks in South Korea last ...

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

Switzerland is worried about the disengagement of certain states from the UN Human Rights Council, said Ignazio Cassis, as the United States and Israel boycott the Geneva-based body.

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

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi has traveled to Geneva to take part in the 58th session of the United Nations Human ...

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