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

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

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.

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

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

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 ...

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

Swiss castles achieved a new visitor record last year. In total, more than 1.5 million people visited the country's 30 most ...

A senior Chinese envoy voiced firm support for the Palestinian people's just course in restoring their legitimate national ...

More than 17,000 participants attended the landmark conference, which "marked a significant turning point for the global ...