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

The cooling weather phenomenon La Nina that emerged late last year is weak and likely to be brief, the UN said Thursday, ...

At the U.N. meeting, set to take place in Geneva from March 17-18, Greek and Turkish Cypriots will be joined by Turkey, ...

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

The Swiss Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced on Thursday that the Conference of High Contracting Parties to the Fourth Geneva Convention, which was scheduled to be held on Friday in Geneva, has ...

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

Switzerland has invited 196 states who are parties to the Geneva Conventions to participate in a conference next week on the ...

GENEVA — The United Nations human rights chief has expressed concern about a "fundamental shift in direction" taking place in ...

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

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