Six young Portuguese climate activists take 32 European governments to court, saying they violated human rights by failing to address climate change.

More than 2,000 women are taking the Swiss government to court claiming its policy on climate change is violating their right to life and health. The case is the first time the European Court of ...

A former member of a Belarusian security services unit on trial for the disappearance of three prominent opponents of ...

The European Court of Human Rights is hearing one of the most ambitious legal efforts yet to force action on climate change.

A former member of a Belarusian special unit accused of involvement in the disappearances of prominent opposition figures was ...

Six young adults and children argued that governments across Europe aren’t doing enough to protect people from climate change ...

GENEVA (AP) — A court in northern Switzerland on Thursday acquitted a former security Belarusian operative over the enforced disappearances of three of President Aleksander Lukashenko's political ...

The Swiss Government has drafted new anti-money laundering regulations which will impose a higher standard than the rest of Europe. The new rules will hold lawyers, consultants and banks to a ...

Switzerland has proposed sweeping measures to clamp down on money laundering in an effort to shed the country’s reputation as a haven for ill-gotten gains.

STORY: Switzerland's glaciers are melting at record rate,shrinking their overall volume by 10% in the last two years, according to a Swiss monitoring body. "It is really possible that we are going to ...

Pilots decided to abort take-off Friday evening after a Swiss Airlines flight ran into a flock off birds during its takeoff at O’Hare International Airport, an airline spokesman said. The Boeing ...

In a landmark case, six young people say European nations aren’t doing enough to protect people from climate change.