Three UN Special rapporteurs, Mary Lawlor, Astrid Puentes Rian, and Irene Khan, issued a collective statement expressing ...

Discussions at the Regional Forum on Sustainable Development will serve as preparation for the High-level Political Forum in July at the UN in New York. There too, Switzerland will work to ensure that ...

In 1999, the UN Security Council decided to impose sanctions against Al-Qaeda and the Taliban in response to the threat these groups posed to international peace and security. Switzerland implemented ...

GENEVA, March 6 (Reuters) - Switzerland has cancelled a conference ... The Palestinian ambassador to the United Nations in Geneva, Ibrahim Khraishi, told Reuters earlier that his delegation ...

Switzerland UN U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights (UNHCR) Volker Türk speaks during a press conference about the publication of UN Human Rights fact-finding report on Bangladesh protests ...

ahead of a meeting to discuss the future of stalled peace talks over the divided island of Cyprus at the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, Tuesday, March 18, 2025. (Pierre Albouy/Keystone via AP) ...

The UN General Assembly mandated Switzerland to organise the conference, as it is the depository of the international treaties setting out the rules of war and humanitarian law. Switzerland said ...

Geneva, 18 Mar (ONA) —- A small plane crashed in the Alps in southeastern Switzerland today, killing three persons. Local sources reported that the Extra EA-400 propeller plane took off from the ...