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Compulsory social measures: the long way to rehabilitation
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Recommendations for the implementation of Swiss guidelines for human rights defenders
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Expulsion initiative: Council of States insists on hardship clause
10.12.2014
10 December: Manifold support for human rights in Switzerland
03.12.2014
NGO conference issues recommendations to the OSCE foreign ministers conference in Basel