Multilateral Policy
Against the proposition of its consultative commission, the National Council has accepted a ban on cluster munitions. The bill is now being returned for detailed discussion to the National Council Sec...
As is generally known, every state can make reservations when ratifying an international human rights treaty, which express that the respective country only accepts certain articles of a treaty to a l...
Based on Resolution 1267, the UN member states are under the obligation to fight terror in various ways. Among these rank directed sanctions in the financial sector, travel restrictions as well as an ...
For more than a year now after the violent attacks on the Gaza Strip between December 2008 and January 2009, Israel is still restricting the free movement of people and keeping up its economic b...
As interdepartmental and inter-cantonal delegation of Swiss officials visited the US detention centre at Guantanamo Bay in August 2009. Justice ministry spokesman confirmed the visit which aim was to ...
On 3 December 2008, Switzerland signed the international Convention on Cluster Munitions in Olso. In a statement, Foreign Minister Micheline Calmy-Rey described the Convention as an important miles...
The Parliament voted in favour of the extension of the juridical basis, which will enable Switzerland to continue its cooperation with international tribunals until 31 December 2013. This is what th...
