The Israeli foreign ministry has summoned Swedish ambassador Carl Magnus Nesser and reprimanded him over Stockholm's support of a UNESCO resolution that denounced actions taken by Israel in Jerusalem.
Swedish statistics icon and health professor Hans Rosling has been posthumously honoured with a UN prize in recognition of his creative presentations on global health and poverty, it has been announced.
A Swedish aid worker who was abducted in the Democratic Republic of Congo has been found dead, the Foreign Ministry and the United Nations confirmed on Wednesday.
Donald Trump has made a number of statements which suggest that the USA is going to protect human rights to a lesser degree than before. As such, the EU and Sweden, with its place on the UN Security council, must step forward and take a greater responsibility to protect human rights on a global level, writes Robert Hårdh from human rights group Civil Rights Defenders.
Sweden's presidency of the UN Security Council will focus on conflict prevention and the inclusion of women in peace processes, Foreign Minister Margot Wallström has revealed.
Sweden focused on gaining the support of small nations and countries in Africa in order to be elected onto the UN Security Council, according to classified documents studied by the Swedish press.
Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Löfven has promised to double his country's number of troops in Iraq following a meeting with Iraqi counterpart Haider al-Abadi on Monday.
The Swedish government will vote in favour of a United Nations resolution banning nuclear weapons, the country’s foreign minister Margot Wallström has confirmed
Swedish celebrity statistician Hans Rosling has criticized the UN and policy makers for using 'fourfold inaccurate' figures to make decisions on how to distribute aid money in a new, myth-busting article.
Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Löfven has been asking celebrities to back his new plan to give unions more influence in global companies. But the endorsements aren't coming - and Swedish companies like Spotify are lukewarm too.
Syria and the EU's refugee crisis were top of the agenda as UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon met Prime Minister Stefan Löfven in Stockholm on Wednesday.
The Swede tasked with ending the conflict in Syria has warned that the planned resumption of troubled peace talks next week is not realistic, in an interview with a Swedish newspaper.
Julian Assange has insisted that Sweden is legally bound to respect a UN panel ruling that he has been "unlawfully detained" at Ecuador's London embassy.
UPDATED: Officials in Trelleborg in southern Sweden have told The Local that around 1,000 unaccompanied refugee children and young adults who have arrived in the town over the last month have since gone missing.
Stefan Löfven, the Swedish prime minister, gave a short speech on Saturday night at the Global Citizen festival in Central Park in New York, before being followed on stage by US pop star Beyoncé.
Sweden’s foreign minister, Margot Wallström, in New York to attend the United Nations Sustainable Development Summit, has been garnering support for Sweden to get a seat on the UN Security Council, according to Swedish public broadcaster, Sveriges Radio.
A UN tribunal has ordered the reinstatement of Swedish official Anders Kompass who was suspended for leaking a report to France about child abuse by French soldiers sent to the Central African Republic in 2014.
UPDATED: A senior Swedish aid worker has been suspended from his job at the United Nations for allegedly leaking an internal report claiming that French soldiers deployed in the Central African Republic have been abusing children.
Sweden’s Prime Minister Stefan Löfven has told reporters in New York that the United Nations appears highly interested in his country, as he lobbies to get the Nordic nation a seat on the UN Security Council.
Sweden’s candidacy for a seat on the UN Security Council will dominate Stefan Löfven’s trip to New York and Washington, DC. While in the US, he will also meet Vice-President Joe Biden.
