Cluster: Geopolitics

Report finds over 4,000 attacks against health workers since 2016

A surgical operating theatre in a hospital at Ariha, in the Syrian province of Idlib.

This content was published on May 5, 2021 Violence against health workers and facilities continues unabated, a new Swiss-UK funded report reveals.

the federal asylum centre at Boudry, canton Neuchâtel

Foreign Affairs

Switzerland launches probe into suspected asylum centre violence

This content was published on May 5, 2021 An independent investigation has been opened into allegations of violence at several federal asylum centres in Switzerland.

A vote at the United Nations Security Council

International Geneva

War crimes cases on the rise despite Covid-19

This content was published on May 5, 2021 Universal jurisdiction cases are on the rise, but the fight to bring justice to victims of international crimes is not over, says a Geneva NGO.

International Geneva

The people fighting to prevent enforced disappearances

This content was published on May 4, 2021 There is nothing, perhaps, so determined, so quietly courageous, as the relatives of the disappeared.

Federal Supreme Court of Switzerland in Lausanne

International Geneva

Universal jurisdiction around the world

This content was published on May 4, 2021 Philip Grant of Geneva-based NGO, Trial International, explains how universal jurisdiction helps bring justice to victims of international crimes.

Foreign Affairs

Senior Swiss embassy official in Iran dies in high-rise fall

This content was published on May 4, 2021 The woman fell from her residential apartment building in Tehran, according to local reports.

International Geneva

Global treaty: Defending the disappeared

This content was published on May 4, 2021 People go missing in wars and natural disasters, but they are also forcibly disappeared. What can families do?

Foreign Affairs

What will happen to Swiss minors stuck in Syrian camps?

This content was published on May 4, 2021 Despite pleas from international bodies, Switzerland refuses to repatriate adults, leaving seven Swiss children stranded in the war-torn country.

Should Swiss children be repatriated from Syrian camps?

Other European countries, such as Finland and Belgium, are now repatriating children and their mothers in some cases. Should Switzerland do the same?

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Swiss woman’s grandchildren held in Syrian camp

This content was published on May 4, 2021 This is the story of a Swiss woman who desperately wants her grandchildren to be brought back from a Kurdish-controlled camp for foreign detainees.

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