Cultural Minorities in Switzerland
In this section you find news that we collected on the issue of cultural minorities and their rights in Switzerland.
On November 29th 2009, the majority of Swiss voters accepted the so called “minaret initiative”. This popular constitutional initiative, l...
The Swiss population accepted with more the 57% the popular initiative that introduce a ban on the construction of minarets in Switzerland on 29 Novem...
According to a juridical analysis published by the Federal Office of Public Health (FOPH) in May 2009 shows, the state is obliged to assure the acce...
The new African Popular University (UPAF) was inaugurated in Geneva on 20 February 2009. It is the first education centre of its kind in both Switze...
The popular initiative against the construction of minarets has been submitted in accordance with the applicable regulations, but infringes guarante...
The High Court of Schaffhausen ruled in December 2007 that a request by a Muslim father of two sons (4th and 5th grade) to exempt them from mixed sw...
Symbolic victory for the Indigenous Peoples: the General Assembly adopted on 13 September 2007 a landmark declaration outlining the rights of the wo...
A synagogue in Geneva was badly damaged by a fire on 24 May 2007, but no one was hurt and the main religious objects were removed intact. According ...
The Federal Council approved the second report prepared by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on the implementation of the Council of Europe (CoE) Fram...
The Swiss government released on October 18, 2006 a report about the situation of travelling people in Switzerland. This report is divided in two pa...
The Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe adopted on 19 November 2008 its concluding observations and recommendations to Switzerland on it...