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

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

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

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

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

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

A dozen Dallas teens are urging the United Nations Human Rights Council this week to advance women’s rights and regional ...

At the seventh meeting of the 58th Session of UN Human Rights Council, India said that Pakistan was a failed state surviving ...

Countries that favor a plastics treaty with limits on production, along with some product and chemical phase-outs, say they ...

Israel “strongly rejects” an upcoming conference in Switzerland on international humanitarian law in the Middle East, the Foreign Ministry says. “The planned conference is part of the legal warfare ...

A senior Chinese envoy voiced firm support for the Palestinian people's just course in restoring their legitimate national ...