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 ...

Switzerland has cancelled a conference on the application of the Geneva Conventions to the occupied Palestinian territories ...

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 ...

Dr. Chris Nwanoro, Charge d’Affaires of the Embassy of the Federal Republic of Nigeria to Sao Tome & Principe, has once again made history. , at the United Nations headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, ...

LONDON - The foreign minister of breakaway northern Cyprus said on Thursday an informal meeting of Greek and Turkish Cypriots ...

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

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

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 ...

Children as young as one have been raped by armed men during the conflict in Sudan, the UN said on Tuesday, condemning it as ...

Switzerland is concerned about the disengagement of certain states from the UN Human Rights Council, said foreign minister Ignazio Cassis. The United States and Israel are currently boycotting the ...

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