The International Association of World Peace Advocates (IAWPA) has announced that Ambassador John Metchie has been appointed ...

Switzerland's security is inextricably linked to that of the wider European continent, the neutral country's outgoing defence ...

US funding suspension is a "real earthquake" for international organisations. SWISS CEO rules out fare cuts despite record profits. More in today’s briefing.

There was 'no desire from the other contracting parties to postpone or continue,' says Franz Perrez, head of directorate of ...

Bern, 06.03.2025 - The Conference of High Contracting Parties to the Geneva Conventions on the implementation of the Fourth Convention (prot ...

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

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 ...

International Women’s Day is both a celebration and a call to action. Switzerland, too, strives to make gender equality an ...

Countries classified as mostly or moderately free have a poverty rate of 1.8%. Countries categorized as mostly unfree or repressed have a poverty rate of 15.7%.

Cyprus's president on Wednesday said he was committed to resuming reunification talks with Turkish Cypriots, and said any ...

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 ...