UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres met Sweden's Prime Minister in Stockholm on Wednesday, ahead of the conference marking the 50th anniversary of the city's historic environment summit .
Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg said wealthy countries were using "loopholes" to avoid taking action on the climate crisis, while attending a UN summit in Madrid on Wednesday.
Swedish teen climate activist Greta Thunberg departed the United States on Wednesday, hitching a ride to Europe aboard a catamaran to attend a UN climate summit in Madrid.
A UN human rights expert, under fire for a controversial article about the rape allegations facing Julian Assange, told AFP on Tuesday he stands by claims that Swedish police sought to "silence" the WikiLeaks founder.
The Swedish Council for Higher Education (UHR) has outlined some of the unanswered questions about the future of British students in Sweden in the event of a no-deal Brexit.
Sweden said Sunday it had recalled its ambassador to Guatemala for consultations, citing the "political situation in the country and bilateral relations" Foreign Minister Margot Wallstrom said.
The United Nations is opening a new science and innovation centre in Lund to help startups to develop technologies promoting peace, security, human rights and development.
The United Nations intends to convene peace talks on Yemen soon after receiving firm assurances from the parties that they will attend negotiations in Sweden, the UN envoy said Friday.
UN Secretary-General António Guterres hailed Sweden as a bridge-builder between nations following a meeting with Stefan Löfven marking the conclusion of a UN Security Council summit in the Nordic country.
The UN Security Council summit at Swedish villa Backåkra enters its second day Sunday, with Special Envoy for Syria Staffan de Mistura joining ambassadors.
The UN Security Council is meeting in a secluded farmhouse on the southern tip of Sweden on Saturday in a bid to overcome deep divisions over how to end the war in Syria.
After a week of bitter acrimony over Syria, UN Security Council ambassadors are heading to a farmhouse in southern Sweden for a retreat to try to break the deadlock over how to end the war.
Sweden is set to co-host a donors' conference next month to help fill a funding gap at the UN agency for Palestinian refugees caused by the US' decision to cut support.
The UN Security Council is expected to vote, probably on Thursday, on a draft resolution demanding a 30-day ceasefire in Syria to allow deliveries of humanitarian aid and medical evacuations, diplomats said.
A new report looking at how children in Sweden are pulled into violent Islamic extremism shows that they often live with the presence of violence and a feeling of hopelessness in their everyday lives.
Sweden's Foreign Ministry has decided not to make almost 900 pages of information relating to the country's campaign to join the UN security council available to the public.
The Swedish government has condemned Donald Trump's recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, saying it risks greater instability in the region.
A Swedish-backed resolution circulating at the United Nations General Assembly on Wednesday seeks to relaunch an investigation into the death of the world body's late chief Dag Hammarskjöld, who was killed in a 1961 plane crash in Africa.
US Secretary of Defence James Mattis sent a letter to Swedish Defence Minister Peter Hultqvist warning the Nordic nation of a negative impact on relations should they sign an anti-nuclear bomb treaty, according to a report in a Swedish newspaper.
The United States on Monday urged the United Nations to launch a special investigation into the murder of two UN experts, including Zaida Catalán from Sweden, who had been gathering evidence of mass graves in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Sweden wants the UN to help with investigations into the murder of an expert killed in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), after the African country's attorney general opened a probe into allegations that a former minister played a role in her death.
Two men will stand trial in the Democratic Republic of the Congo for the murder of Swedish UN worker Zaida Catalán in March, while a separate Swedish investigation is still on-going.
