People wearing Uyghur masks standing on Parliament Square during the handing in of the petition "#NoComplicity: Switzerland must renegotiate free trade agreement with China!", in Bern on Monday, September 7, 2020.
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The Swiss Wolf Group submitted the petition "For the protection of the wolf in Switzerland" with 25,000 signatures, on Wednesday, November 24, 2010, in Bern.
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Members of the Farmers' Movement group on their way to Bern on July 23, 1998, along with their cow Aster. They were handing in a petition to parliament calling for the price of milk to be set to 82.4 centimes (c.90 US cents).
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Around 200 children handed over the petition calling "for a real free choice of school" in Bern on Thursday, November 27, 2003. The parents' association elternlobby.schweiz collected 40,680 signatures.
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On January 9, 1995 the committee "Equal rights for same-sex couples" handed in a petition of the same name. They collected around 85,000 signatures in nine months.
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Members of the youth campaign group "Aktion Selbstschutz" from Basel abseil down the Johanniterbrücke over the Rhine on February 8, 1987, to protest against their petition being rejected by the department of education in Basel City. The apprentices were calling for fuller information on the Schweizerhalle environmental disaster, which caused a widespread loss of fish. The petition had collected over 1,000 signatures.
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Young people from the "Movement of the Dissatisfied" in Bern demanded a free meeting and cultural centre in their petition of over 4,000 signatures, which was handed in on August 17, 1980.
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Radio 24 boss Roger Schawinski delivered a 212,000-signature petition to parliament in support of his station during a cheerful demonstration in Bern on December 29, 1979.
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On December 6, 1971, members of the non-governmental environmental organisation WWF presented the Federal Chancellery with a total of 730,000 signatures from two petitions, the "Petition for the Preservation of the Upper Engadine Lake Areas" and the "Petition for the Protection of Endangered Species".
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Innkeepers and hoteliers submitted the petition "For the preservation of an efficient hospitality industry" in Bern on September 16, 1972. The petition called for 30,000 additional permits for seasonal workers from abroad.
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Former government minister Rodolphe Rubattel accepted 573,269 signatures from Belgian mine workers, during an international conference in Geneva in 1955. They called for a reduction in working hours through the introduction of the five-day week.
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A delegation of women presented a petition at the International Conference on Disarmament in Geneva on February 9, 1932, which had been signed by millions of women from all over the world, calling for global disarmament.
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A demonstration on the occasion of a petition for women's suffrage in Bern, Switzerland, in 1929.
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In November 1830, 40 residents from rural regions of Basel submitted a petition calling for better representation in the cantonal parliament. On January 1831, after the local government refused their request, the residents took up arms and marched to the city in protest. In turn, city troops marched into the countryside at Liestal. The result: the separation of the Basel area into two half cantons - Basel City and Basel Country.
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