The United Nations (UN) said Thursday it was allocating US$110 million from its emergency fund for life-saving assistance in ...

Six months ago, the United Nations General Assembly asked Switzerland to organise a conference on the fourth Geneva Convention, which offers protection to civilians in armed conflicts, to address the ...

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

With global humanitarian funding being scaled back precipitously, the United Nations on Thursday allocated US$110 million from the Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF) to boost life-saving assistanc ...

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

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

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