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Switzerland: Referendum on expulsions risks serious human rights violations

Nov 29, 2010 | News

The ICJ today expressed its concern at the approval by referendum of the popular initiative on the expulsion of foreigners.

The initiative, if implemented according to the terms set out in the referendum proposal, would lead to the automatic expulsion of non-nationals convicted of serious crimes.

Switzerland-referendumexpulsion-news-2010 (full text, PDF)

Switzerland-referendumexpulsion-news-2010-fra (full text in French, PDF)

Inter-committee workshop “Activities of transnational corporations : impact on the implementation of human rights treaty obligations”

Jun 18, 2010 | Agendas

Treaty-bodies have a special role in monitoring State compliance with human rights treaty obligations and providing guidance to States Parties on how to fulfil those obligations. The workshop afforded an occasion for in-depth examination and interaction between the committees on the impact that activities of transnational corporations have in the implementation of treaty obligations, providing a comparative and informed perspective on approaching these issues and encouraging coordinated action.

Switzerland-workshop transnational corporations-agenda-2010 (full text in English, PDF)

Switzerland: Journalists who published fax on secret CIA prisons acquitted by court martial

Jun 6, 2007

On 17 April, a military court acquitted three journalists accused of revealing military secrets for publishing in the SonntagsBlick newspaper a fax from the Egyptian Government intercepted by the Swiss intelligence agency. The fax contained information alleging the...

Switzerland: Military tribunal to try journalists for publishing a fax on CIA secret prisons

Mar 10, 2007

On 6 February, a military tribunal indicted three journalists from the Swiss weekly newspaper SonntagsBlick for publishing a document allegedly proving the existence of secret CIA prisons in Europe. Last year, the three journalists published a fax from the Egyptian...

Report of the Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance, mission to Switzerland, A/HRC/4/19/Add.2, January 30, 2007

Jan 30, 2007

87. The Special Rapporteur therefore recommends that the Government make available the appropriate means, mechanisms and institutions to implement this political will (…) At the institutional level, the Special Rapporteur recommends two measures: (…) In order to...

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Switzerland: Referendum on expulsions risks serious human rights violations

Inter-committee workshop “Activities of transnational corporations : impact on the implementation of human rights treaty obligations”

Switzerland: Journalists who published fax on secret CIA prisons acquitted by court martial

Switzerland: Military tribunal to try journalists for publishing a fax on CIA secret prisons

Report of the Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance, mission to Switzerland, A/HRC/4/19/Add.2, January 30, 2007

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