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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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.

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

Some Swiss pension funds are managed by American banks. Washington's geopolitical U-turn now calls into question the prudence of this choice.

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

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

Switzerland is stepping up its efforts to cut emissions ... a legally binding international treaty adopted by 196 parties in ...

South Sudan stands at a precarious juncture as it enters another extended transitional period. The ongoing clashes between ...