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

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, ...

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.

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

Defence Minister Israel Katz ordered troops to prepare for "a prolonged stay", saying the camps had been cleared "for the coming year" and residents would not be allowed to return ...

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

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 ...

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

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

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.