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The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development has been in force since January 2016. The adoption of the 2030 Agenda by the UN General Assembly in 2015...

On 31 October 2017, the Society for Threatened Peoples (STP) published a report providing information on the situation of foreign travelling Roma in...

Between 30 May and 11 June 2016 the 105th ILO Conference took place in Geneva. Once again the ILO Committee of Experts reprimanded Switzerland for its...

Many refugees are traumatised by what they have experienced in their home country and while fleeing and are in urgent need of psychiatric support. The...

Around 250,000 parents and children in Switzerland live in poverty. These families lack healthy meals, clothing adapted to the season and they suffer...

All people in need of assistance in an emergency shall in future be covered compulsorily by health insurance. On 6 July 2011, the Federal Council took...

In advance of the meeting of the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, an NGO coalition led by Humanrights.ch issued an assessment...

At the beginning of November, Switzerland will give an account of its efforts on the implementation of the International Covenant on Economic, Social...

On 30 October 2009, the UN human rights committee – which is responsible for the monitoring of UN Covenant on civil and political rights –...

The opening of the first Lidl discount supermarket in Switzerland this March will probably signal the end of inflated prices for Swiss consumers....

Foreigners living in Switzerland without valid residence permit are usually completely shut off from medical care, because of their illegal status....

The Swiss Federal Council adopted on 9 April 2008 the second and third report on the implementation of the International Covenant on Economic,...

Switzerland defended a controversial idea before the UN: During a preparatory meeting concerning the elaboration of an optional protocol to the...

The poverty and social exclusion of children and young people remains a largely “taboo” subject, despite reminders of welfare...

The number of working people between the age of 20 and 59 who live below the poverty line has dropped in the last 5 years (2000 – 2005), the...

• Federal Social Insurance Office
  in particular the right to social security

• Federal Office for Agriculture
  Responsible for the negotiations within FAO in the field of the right to adequate food

Adopted on 18 December 1990
Entry into force on 1 July 2003
Ratified by 34 countries (stand May 2006)
Original Text...

Many of the persons receiving emergency aid after their application for asylum in Switzerland has been refused are under age. Their proportion over...