The world's governments are in Lima, Peru this week to lay the foundations for a new United Nations Convention on Climate Change. Sweden must play a more assertive role to push for change, says Svante Axelsson from the Swedish Society for Nature Conservation.
Another 230 million kronor ($31m) is set to be donated by the Swedish government to fight the Ebola virus in west Africa, making it the largest contributor in the world in terms of funding per capita.
Sweden's parliament voted on Tuesday in favour of sending up to 160 troops to Mali on July 1 for a maximum of one year in support of a UN peacekeeping mission to the country.
The Swedish government wants to send troops and police officers to participate in UN peace keeping efforts in Mali, arguing it's "in Sweden's interests" to support peace and security in the west African nation.
Two former managers of truck maker Scania were on Wednesday indicted on charges of violating the UN sanctions against Saddam Husseins's regime in Iraq, the Swedish Ministry for Justice said Wednesday.
France, Britain, Germany and Sweden called Monday on the United Nations to quickly draw up a comprehensive arms trade treaty that will reduce what they called "a growing threat to humanity".
The Social Democrats have regained their position as Sweden's largest political party, according to a new poll, helping Sweden's three centre-left opposition parties amass more combined support than the centre-right Alliance government.
Swedish minister for the environment, Lena Ek, welcomed the deal to decrease emissions of greenhouse gases, reached on Sunday following intense negotiations during the UN Climate Change Conference in South Africa.
For the fifth time, Sweden has been criticised by the UN's Committee on the Rights of the Child for not having introduced their children's rights convention as Swedish law.
Foreign minister Carl Bildt revealed his impressions of Libyan dictator Muammar Qaddafi at a press conference held Monday, describing him as simultaneously “bizarre” and “fascinating”.
As the economy continues to heat up, Swedes are working more overtime than ever before, with extra hours clocked in some sectors shooting up by more than 30 percent.
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has appointed Sweden's Minister for International Development Cooperation Gunilla Carlsson as a member of the new UN High-level Panel on Global Sustainability.
Aides to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon were in damage control mode on Wednesday after a blistering attack on his leadership by the outgoing Swedish head of a UN unit battling internal fraud.
The Swedish government on Monday condemned the killing of the top United Nations official in Somalia, calling the assassination an assault on peace efforts in the war-torn country.
Major tensions remain in Iraq but there are signs the situation is improving, the top UN envoy in Baghdad said Tuesday, just ahead of an international conference on the war-torn country in Stockholm.
Södertälje mayor Anders Lago received praise while in Washington this week from US presidential candidate Barack Obama and other members of congress for how well his city has handled its influx of Iraqi refugees.
A United Nations conference on the international community's support for Iraq's development will take place in Sweden on May 29th, Swedish Foreign Minister Carl Bildt said on Thursday.
UN arms monitors from Sweden, Gambia, Indonesia and South Korea died when their UN helicopter crashed in the mountains of eastern Nepal, the world body said Tuesday.
Sweden and Norway have offered to send a joint engineering unit to support the United Nations' and African Union's force in the war-torn Sudanese province of Darfur.
Sweden and Norway will consider sending a joint group to participate in the new peacekeeping force for Darfur that was approved by the UN, Swedish Foreign Minister Carl Bildt said Wednesday.
The United Nations said Friday it signed a contract with Swedish builder Skanska to handle the preconstruction phase of a 1.9 billion-dollar renovation of its crumbling New York headquarters.
