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

The cooling weather phenomenon La Nina that emerged late last year is weak and likely to be brief, the UN said Thursday, ...

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

Federal Department of Home Affairs. Bern, 06.03.2025 - The 69th session of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) will open in New York on 10 March. This editi ...

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

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 ...

As the number of violent conflicts reaches “the highest level since World War II,” arms transfers and diversion are contributing to internal repression, human rights abuses and serious violat ...

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

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 ...