Rights of persons with disabilities
In its decision of December 2011, the Federal Office of Civil Aviation (FOCA) convicted the Swiss subsidiary of easyJet because of its practice towards disabled passengers in wheelchairs. Up to now the airline only transported wheelchair users if the...
On 22 December 2010, the Federal Council has started the consultation phase about joining the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. Its ratification has been called for by various professional organisations for a long time. The consu...
Equal rights for people with disabilities have advanced on several fronts in the past five years. Both representatives of the federal administration and of organizations active in the support to people with disabilities agreed on that when they prese...
A municipality in Canton Zug refused to naturalise a young boy because of his mental disability. According the an article published in the « Tages Anzeiger » on 30 October 2008, the municipal authorities justified this decision by expla...
Humanrights.ch offers a news type of service for the Swiss-German deaf community: human rights presented in sign languages. The section proposes key documents on human rights and their implementation in Switzerland. The project was supported by the...
Switzerland should sign and start the ratifying process of the UN Convention on persons with disabilities as well as the Optional protocol, demands the head organisation of private help for persons with disabilities (DOK), the Council for equ...
The fifth revision of the Federal Disability Insurance scheme was accepted in a nationwide ballot on 17 June 2007. Nearly 60 per cent of voters came out in favour of annual spending cuts of about SFr500 million and a reduction by 20 per cent in the...
