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In 2014, the victims of compulsory social measures successfully launched a popular initiative focusing on rehabilitation. In early December 2015, the Federal Council passed a counter-proposal to this initiative which was accepted by both chambers of...

Even 13 years after the Disability Discrimination Act (DDA) came into force many people with disabilities still do not have equal rights. Recent studies show they experience major drawbacks in the labour market, in education and in housing. The...

On 15 April 2014 Switzerland ratified the UN Convention of the Rights of Persons with Disabilities as 144th signatory state. It enters into force in Switzerland in mid-May. The organizations of persons with disabilities welcome this move. The...

On 26 November 2013, the Council of States - the second chamber of Parliament - ratified the UN Convention of the Rights of Persons with Disabilities with a clear majority of 32 against 3 votes and 3 abstentions. The National Council had already...

In its decision of December 2011, the Federal Office of Civil Aviation (FOCA) convicted the Swiss subsidiary of easyJet because of its practice towards disabled passengers in wheelchairs. Up to now the airline only transported wheelchair users if...

A municipality in Canton Zug refused to naturalise a young boy because of his mental disability. According the an article published in the « Tages Anzeiger » on 30 October 2008, the municipal authorities justified this decision by...

Humanrights.ch offers a news type of service for the Swiss-German deaf community: human rights presented in sign languages. The section proposes key documents on human rights and their implementation in Switzerland. The project was supported by the...

Switzerland should sign and start the ratifying process of the UN Convention on persons with disabilities as well as the Optional protocol, demands the head organisation of  private help for persons with disabilities (DOK), the Council for...

The fifth revision of the Federal Disability Insurance scheme was accepted in a nationwide ballot on 17 June 2007. Nearly 60 per cent of voters came out in favour of annual spending cuts of about CHF 500 million and a reduction by 20 per cent in...

Equal rights for people with disabilities have advanced on several fronts in the past five years. Both representatives of the federal administration and of organizations active in the support to people with disabilities agreed on that when they...