The process towards a legally binding instrument on business and human rights (also known as the “UN Treaty”) has now been underway for a decade. The initiative is based on the realisation that the ...

Marce Gutiérrez-Graudiņš was hoping she’d be a part of history last month when more than 170 countries gathered in Busan, South Korea, to forge a legally binding global treaty to curb plastic ...

Mr Carter's presidency, though marred by economic struggles, is remembered for significant achievements such as the 1978 Camp David Accords between Egypt and Israel, and the Panama Canal Treaty of ...

You got to treat us fairly and they haven’t treated us fairly." Make no mistake what Trump is doing is negotiating a new treaty for the Panama Canal and hence, a better deal for the American people.

India and Bangladesh signed an extradition treaty in 2013, in the context of several Indian and Bangladesh fugitives hiding and operating out of the other country. But the mere existence of the treaty ...

Russia and Iran plan to formalize relations with the signing of a new strategic partnership treaty in the days before President-elect Donald Trump's inauguration. The news was broken by Iranian ...

The first treaty obliged Panama to operate the canal neutrally, with nondiscriminatory pricing, and allowed the United States to defend it from any threat that might interfere with its neutrality.

The General Assembly on Tuesday adopted the United Nations Convention against Cybercrime, a landmark global treaty aimed at strengthening international cooperation to combat cybercrime and protecting ...

To develop the capacities of the Local Government Units for effective and uniform management of human resources in compliance with national legislation and standards. To strengthen institutional ...

Leaving the 1997 Ottawa Treaty prohibiting the use, stockpiling, production and transfer of anti-personnel landmines would require majority backing by Finland's parliament. Quitting the agreement ...

Opposition to David Seymour's Treaty of Waitangi Principles Bill was strong throughout Aotearoa. Photo / Getty Images The Treaty Principles Bill poses major risk to public health and equity ...

The treaty gave Brits the same rights to live, study and work in the EU. The Commission is taking the U.K. to the Court of Justice of the EU (ECJ). Although Britain ceased to be bound by EU law ...