Human Rights in the Federal Administration
In the «Federal Administration» section you will find information on the human rights dossiers of federal departments who work together in the interdepartmental «Core Group International Human Rights Policy» (Kerngruppe internationale Menschenrechtspolitik, KIM). KIM is coordinated by the Human Rights Section of Political Affairs Division IV of the Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA).
All of the information in the «Federal Administration» section was made available to us by the participating federal departments who have themselves determined the form of presentation and amount of information on human rights topics in their area. The portrait pages which will provide you with further information on the human rights dossiers of the relevant federal departments:
Documented federal offices:
- Federal Office of Public Health
HIV and Aids Section / Migration and Health - Federal Office of Justice
- Federal Office of Culture
- Federal Office for Agriculture
- Federal Office for Migration
- Federal Social Insurance Office
International Affairs I / International Affairs II /
Families, Generations and Society Domanin (FGS):
Child Affairs / Youth Affairs / Family Affairs - Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC)
- Directorate of Public International Law (DFA)
Section for Human Rights and Humanitarian Law /
Swiss UN-Mission in Geneva - Directorate of Political Affairs (DFA)
Political Affairs Division III, UN Coordination /
Political Affairs Division IV, Section for Human Rights Policy - State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (seco)
International Labour Affairs /
Swiss National Contact Point on OECD Guidlines - Federal Office for Equality of People with Disabilities
- Federal Office for Equality of Women and Men
- Service for Combating Racism
- Federal Commission for Women's Issues
- Federal Commission of Child and Youth Affairs
- Federal Commission on Migration Issues
- Federal Commission against Racisme
Update: 23.05.2011
