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

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

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

Switzerland could contribute around 200 troops to a prospective peacekeeping mission in Ukraine if such a request were ...

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.

Switzerland has invited 196 states who are parties to the Geneva Conventions to participate in a conference next week on the ...

U.N. human rights experts and activists condemned on Sunday the arrest of an American, pro-Palestinian journalist in the Swiss city of Zurich, saying it raised concerns about freedom of speech.

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

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

As 120 conflicts rage around the world from the DR Congo to Gaza and from Sudan to Ukraine, UN human rights chief Volker Türk on Monday urged the international community to step up to defend fund ...

Switzerland said it will host an international conference on March 7 on the protection of Palestinian civilians in the ...