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Switzerland ranked second most transparent arms exporter

Armed Yemenis, loyal to the Houthi rebels, brandish weapons in Sana a, Yemen in August 2016.

This content was published on Sep 13, 2017 Germany and Switzerland are the most transparent major small arms exporters, the 2017 Small Arms Survey has revealed.

Amnesty International activists hold a giant gun replica AK-47 during a rally

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Foreign minister urges full implementation of arms treaty

This content was published on Sep 11, 2017 States must focus more effort on fully implementing the landmark Arms Trade Treaty (ATT), Swiss Foreign Minister Didier Burkhalter said on Monday.

Smoke rises from a burned house in Gawdu Zara village, northern Rakhine state

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Swiss ambassador: ‘Aung San Suu Kyi is in a difficult position’

This content was published on Sep 11, 2017 “The situation is much more complicated that it first appears,” Paul Seger, Switzerland’s man in Myanmar since 2015, said in an interview with the Zurich newspaper Tages-AnzeigerExternal link on Thursday. “All I can say is that Switzerland is calling on the Myanmar government to protect the civilian population of the Rohingya and thereby the Muslim…

ICRC staff in Geneva pay tribute to six colleagues killed in Afghanistan

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Two abducted ICRC staff released in Afghanistan

This content was published on Sep 5, 2017 Two International Red Cross staff members abducted by an armed group in February in Afghanistan have been set free.

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Swiss on track to eliminate cluster bombs stockpile

This content was published on Aug 31, 2017 Switzerland destroyed 55,410 cluster bombs last year and looks set to eliminate its stockpile in 2018. But states continue to use the deadly munitions.

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Barcelona terror suspects were in Zurich

This content was published on Aug 20, 2017 On Sunday, the Federal Police Office confirmed to the Swiss News Agency that at least one of the attackers had stayed in Zurich near the end of 2016. The information was first reported by Spanish media and relayed by the Swiss Tages Anzeiger newspaper. Spanish police say that two suspects, now deceased, were in Zurich. “It is…

The Albanian language as it appeared in 2001

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Trial in failed attack on Zurich-based paper

This content was published on Aug 16, 2017 The alleged perpetrator of the attempted 2002 attack on an Albanian-language newspaper in Zurich faces trial.

A girl drinks water from a well that is allegedly contaminated with cholera bacteria, on the outskirts of Sanaa, Yemen.

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ICRC president condemns ‘man-made humanitarian catastrophe’ in Yemen

This content was published on Jul 25, 2017 Peter Maurer is visiting three Yemeni cities in five days to address the health crisis that has ravaged the war-torn nation for the past four months.

Supporters of the Turkish president rally in front of the United Nations at Geneva

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Swiss join in chorus of protest on Turkey

This content was published on Jul 21, 2017 The Swiss foreign ministry added its voice to the chorus of growing international concern over a Turkish court order to arrest activists.

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Building peace with rock bands, orchestras, and theatre

This content was published on Jun 22, 2017 Could art and culture be the future tools of diplomats and peacebuilders? A Swiss woman’s initiative is helping to make it happen, step by step.

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