Children's Rights / Children's Policy
In this section you find news concerning children's rights issues and Swiss policy concerning families and children.
Children are not treated equally in Switzerland. This is the outcome of the second report presented by the Swiss Netwok for the Rights of the Child to the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child on 22...
The Swiss Federal Court allowed a Turkish mother to stay in Switzerland with her naturalised Swiss child after the death of her husband. The child's interest is more important, it empahsised. Wi...
The Swiss government wants a better protection of minors against sexual abuses. Therefore, it invites the cantons to give an opinion whether Switzerland should sign or not the new Council of Europe ...
Since June 2008, the general public have the possibility of reporting any information regarding child sex tourism cases to the appropriate judicial authorities via Internet. A reporting form was pre...
About thousand children in Switzerland live without residence permits. With this, theirs basic rights are violated, living in the fear of being discovered, socially isolated, in poverty. At the occa...
UNICEF Switzerland is leading a national campaign from 6 February to 8 March against the practice of female genital mutilation (FGM). Every year, around 3 million girls have had their genitals parti...
On the 25th of October 2007 23 member states of the Council of Europe (CoE) signed the newly adopted Convention on the Protection of children against sexual exploitation and sexual abuse. Switzerlan...
In November 2007 proceedings were opened concering a case of female genital mutilation (FGM) in the canton of Zurich. It is the first time that such a case has come before a court in Switzerland. The ...
Sex with children as part of the holiday fun? For many tourists, flying to South East Asia, Latin America, Africa or Eastern Europe means they plan to sexually exploit minors. A recent UNICEF study ...
The poverty and social exclusion of children and young people remains a largely “taboo” subject, despite reminders of welfare organisations such as Caritas or Children Lobby Switzerland....
The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) was ratified by the Swiss Parliament on 26 March 1997. Ten years later, several children’s organisations observe the implementation of the CR...
The Swiss Association for the Protection of Children (SAPC) has extended its national child abuse prevention campaign called “My Body Belongs to Me”. With a pilot project launched on 16 ...
