GENEVA (Reuters) -Switzerland has cancelled a conference on the application of the Geneva Conventions to the occupied Palestinian territories for want of participants, its Foreign Affairs Ministry ...

GENEVA (Reuters) - Switzerland has invited 196 states who are parties to the Geneva Conventions to participate in a conference next week on the situation of civilians living in the Israeli occupied ...

GENEVA -U.N. human rights experts and activists condemned on Sunday the arrest of an American, pro-Palestinian journalist in the Swiss city of Zurich, saying it raised concerns about freedom of speech ...

The UN rights chief on Wednesday rejected as "unlawful" proposals for the annexation of or forced transfer from Palestinian territories, warning they posed a threat to the entire region. "We must ...

NPR's Juana Summers speaks with Michael Lynk, former U.N. Special Rapporteur for human rights in Palestinian territories, about recent international moves to recognize a Palestinian state. This week, ...

A boy holds a Palestinian flag on top of a mound of rubble in the central Gaza Strip. Eyad Baba/AFP/Getty Images Palestinians have pursued statehood for over a century. As the Israel-Hamas war in the ...

JERUSALEM, June 11 (Reuters) - An Israeli move to cut off cooperation with Palestinian banks could halt the supply of essential goods such as food and fuel to the Palestinian territories, the ...