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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The rights chief of the United Nations expressed deep concern on Monday about a "fundamental shift in direction" by the ...

The United Nations rights chief expressed deep concern on Monday about a "fundamental shift in direction" by the United ...

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

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