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Getting to grips with racism in Switzerland.

March 23, 2012

Swiss cantons and cities have joined forces to stamp out racism, which some observers say is on the rise. But their week-long campaign only targets part of the country. Seven French- and Italian-speaking cantons this week launched the first joint anti-racism action on the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, under the...
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Swiss say no to longer holidays

March 12, 2012

The Swiss have voted against increasing statutory holiday entitlement to six weeks from the current four. Voters also turned down the re-introduction of an agreement on fixed book prices. But they looked set to narrowly approve a limit on the number of new holiday homes. The gfs.bern polling institute said incomplete results showed 67...
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Decline in adoption

February 20, 2011
Decline in adoption

Adoption as a route to founding a family is becoming less and less common in Switzerland with just seven adoptions per 1,000 births reported in 2009.
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Switzerland climbs equality ladder

January 31, 2011

In October 2010, a major report on gender equality ranked Switzerland tenth in the world, up three places from last year. The Gender Gap Report 2010 by the Geneva-based World Economic Forum, put Nordic countries in the first four positions, with Iceland topping the list. Switzerland is preceded in the rankings by Lesotho and...
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Young Swiss women don`t use their vote

January 31, 2011

A new study shows a significant drop in the number of women between 18 and 29 years of age who exercise their voting rights.
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Swiss democracy unexceptional compared to other countries

January 28, 2011

Switzerland is not the democracy par excellence as thought, but only a mediocre one and ranks fourteenth when compared with twenty-nine established democracies. These are the finding of the democracy barometer, a new instrument for measuring the quality of democracy developed at the University of Zurich and the Social Science Research Center Berlin (WZB)....
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Arms and parents in Switzerland

January 20, 2011

February 13, 2011: A date which is getting a great deal of attention in Switzerland and abroad at the moment. That is when the Swiss gun debate will be voted upon and decided. The thing about this whole debate is that it is unusually emotional on both fronts.
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The Swiss Minaret vote: The Failure of Equality and Emancipation?

January 19, 2011

A few years back I came across a book, The Meaning of Race: Race, History and Culture in Western Society, written by the author Kenan Malik. The Meaning of Race really challenged my knowledge about racism and how to view people living in different cultures. The book revealed how racism has been reborn in...
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The Swiss Minaret vote: Rational Fear of Islam?

January 19, 2011
The Swiss Minaret vote: Rational Fear of Islam?

Ayan Hirsi Ali, a Dutch intellectual, feminist and activist, is one that has openly showed her support of the Swiss ban on minarets. In her article titled “Swiss ban on minarets was a vote for tolerance and inclusion” she supported the result and said it must be interpreted as an act of inclusion and...
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The Swiss Minaret vote: Xenophobia or Rational Fear of Political Islam?

January 19, 2011
The Swiss Minaret vote: Xenophobia or Rational Fear of Political Islam?

The Swiss people made their opinion heard across the world when they went to the polls and voted for the initiative to ban minarets in Switzerland. The condemnation from neighboring countries came quickly from the EU countries all accusing Switzerland for violating a basic human right: freedom of religion. But how should we interpret the...
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