Human Rights Problems? - Useful Adresses in Switzerland
Most of the following links are to pages in German or French. Usually you can find a telephone number on those pages and contact them directly.
Free legal advice by lawyer's associations
In many municipalities cantonal lawyer's organisations offer free legal advice:
Aid for victims of violence
Offices of the Ombudsman
There are offices of the Ombudsman in some cities and cantons
Pre-trial detention / Detention
- Criminal defence emergency service Zurich
- Criminal defence emergency service Basel: telephone number: 061 272 02 02
Discrimination of women
- List of all federal, cantonal and communal offices for the equality of women
- List of women's shelters in Switzerland
- List of help desks for men / against male violence
- Forced marriages:
www.zwangsheirat.ch
www.terre-des-femmes.ch
Racial discrimination
- Sos rassismus deutschschweiz , phone: 0800 55 44 43 (free emergency number)
- Federal Commission against Racism
- List of help desks (searchable)
Refugees / Migrants / Police violence / Deportation
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- FIZ Women's information centre for women from Africa, Asia, Latin America and Eastern Europe, phone: 01 240 44 22
- List of legal advice bureaus for asylum seekers
- Swiss Refugee Council, phone: 031 370 75 75
- Solidarité sans frontières, phone: 031 311 07 70
- Undocumented migrants:
Helpdesk Bern phone: 031 385 18 27
Helpdesk Zürich phone: 043 243 95 78
Helpdesk Basel phone: 061 681 56 10
Discrimination of persons with disabilities and mental illnesses
- AGILE, Self-help group for persons with disabilities, phone: 031 390 39 39
- Egalité Handicap , free legal advice concerning the equality law for persons with disabilities, phone: 031 398 50 34
- Insieme , for human rights of persons with intellectual disabilities, phone: 032 322 17 14
- Psychex , for problems concerning psychiatric hospitals, phone: 0848 00 00 33