European Human Rights instruments not ratified by Switzerland
Protocol to the ECHR
of 20 March 1952 (Entry into force: 18 May 1954) The European Human Rights Convention ECHR has fourteen addtional protocols, all of which,...
Protocol No. 4 to the ECHR
of 16 September 1963 (Entry into force: 2 May 1968) Text of the Protocol This additional protocol entered into force in 1968 and so far ha...
Protocol No. 12 to the ECHR
of 4 November 2000 (Entry into force: 1 April 2005) So far, the Protocol has been ratified by 17 memb...
European Social Charter
of 18 October 1961 (Entry into force: 26 February 1965) The rights guaranteed by the Charter include housing, health, education, employment, mo...
Additional Protocol to the European Social Charter
of 5 May 1988 (Entry into force: 4 September 1992) So far, the protocol has been ratified by 13 member states (as of 31 October 2008, cur...
Revised European Social Charter
of 3 May 1996 (Entry into force: 1 July 1999) The Revised Charter compiles all changes that had been made to the original Social Charter into o...
European Convention on Human Rights and Biomedicine
of 4 April 1997 (Entry into force: 1 December 1999) This convention regulates, for the first time on an international level, questions concerni...
European Convention on the Exercise of Children's Rights
of 25 January 1996 (Entry into force: 1 July 2000) So far, this Convention has been ratified by 13 member states (as of 31 October 2008, curren...
European Convention on the Legal Status of Migrant Workers
of 24 November 1977 (Entry into force: 1 May 1983) So far, the Convention has been ratified by 11 member states (as of 18 April 2007, current s...
European Convention on the Participation of Foreigners in Public Life at Local Level
of 5 February 1992 (Entry into force: 1 May 1997) So far, 8 member states have ratified the Convention (as of 31 October 2008, current status )...
European Convention on Nationality
of 6 November 1997 (Entry into force: 1 March 2000) The Convention contains regulations concerning nationality. It demands inter alia easier an...
European Convention on Actions against Trafficking in Human Beings
of 16 May 2005 (Entry into force: 1 February 2008) So far, 17 member states have ratified the Convention, 21 have signed it (as of 28 June 2008...
European Convention on the Protection of Children against Sexual Exploitation and Sexual Abuse
of 25 October 2007 (did not yet entered into force) Since the opening for signature, 30 member states have signed, none ratified. The condition...