National policy: miscellaneous
On 23 December 2010, the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons
from Enforced Disappearance will enter into force. Already 21 c...
On October 30th 2009, the UN human rights committee – which is responsible for the monitoring of UN Covenant on civil and political rights &ndas...
In a petition to the Swiss Government handed in on 30 August 2009, the International Day of the Disappeared, twenty-one non-governmental organisations...
Switzerland delivered its third state report concerning the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) to the Human Rights Committ...
On 27 February 2008, the Federal Council proposed a legislative change regulating conscientious objection. It decided that the assessment that men h...
The Paul Grueninger Foundation awarded their annual prize to two persons from Uzbekistan for exceptional acts of humanity and courage. The foundatio...
The information platform humanrights.ch presents a new database with organisations active in human rights issues based in Switzerland. Its well pres...
Property rights are human rights. This is what highlights the first volume of the new Swiss Human Rights Book series. It is edited under the auspice...
The human rights organisation Amnesty International (AI) launched in London its annual assessment of human rights in 152 countries, including Switze...
The Federal Chancellery informed mid September that it published a fully revised English translation of the Federal Constitution. This complements t...
The Federal Department of Federal Affairs (FDFA) presented a booklet intituled «ABC of Human Rights» at the occasion of the 60th a...
Presented on 28 Mai 2009, the latest annual report of the international human rights organisation presents the dramatic effects of the economic cris...
During the summer of 2009, the association Humanrights.ch celebrates its tenth anniversary. This was an occasion to edit a booklet portraying the path...
In recognition of the fact that it is now impossible to separate today's global trends from human rights, the complementary online media InfoSud...
