Cluster: Swiss Abroad

Private security companies prompt rethink

This content was published on Aug 25, 2010 The move follows news of the arrival in Basel of Aegis Defence Services, one of the world’s largest private security contractors. The government has commissioned a report on the issue to be ready by the end of the year. In 2008, the Swiss cabinet decided there was no need for legislation on the subject due…

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Death penalty initiative is withdrawn

This content was published on Aug 25, 2010 On their website, the group said that the initiative, which caused intense debate in Switzerland over the past week, had been the only way for them to make the population aware of problems in the justice system. The surprising turn in the story comes a day after the Federal Chancellery said the initiative met formal…

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Death penalty initiative withdrawn

This content was published on Aug 25, 2010 On their website, the group behind the move said that the initiative, which has caused intense debate in Switzerland, was the only way for them to make the population aware of problems in the justice system. The surprising turn in the story comes a day after the Federal Chancellery said the initiative met formal legal…

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Initiative hopes to revive death penalty

This content was published on Aug 24, 2010 The Federal Chancellery said on Tuesday the initiative met formal legal requirements. Its supporters now have until February 24, 2012 to collect the 100,000 signatures needed to force a nationwide vote on the issue. Switzerland outlawed the civil death penalty in the 1940s, and observers are sceptical whether the initiative, brought by a group of…

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Death row condemned

This content was published on Aug 24, 2010 Death row condemned American citizen Curtis McCarty describes his 19 years on death row before being found innocent.

Death penalty initiative launched in Switzerland

This content was published on Aug 24, 2010 They have to collect 100,000 signatures by February 24, 2012 to force a nationwide vote on the issue. Switzerland abolished capital punishment in 1942. The text calls for the Swiss Constitution to be modified to reintroduce the death penalty for those committing a murder or responsible for a death resulting from sexual abuse of children,…

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Calmy-Rey calls for international cooperation

This content was published on Aug 23, 2010 In her opening speech to the 2010 Ambassadors Conference in the resort of Interlaken in the Bernese Oberland, Calmy-Rey said international cooperation was key. This certainly did not mean a loss of independence or an abandonment of sovereignty, she stressed. The Ambassadors Conference brings together around 200 representatives of Switzerland abroad, including ambassadors, consuls general…

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“Mr Multilingual” oversees language balance

This content was published on Aug 23, 2010 The government recently appointed Vasco Dumartheray to support minority languages within the federal administration. He tells swissinfo.ch about the main challenges. Under a new legal ordinance, which came into effect on July 1, a quota for federal staff was also introduced. It states that 70 per cent of staff should be German speakers, 22 per…

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Pakistan flood aid failing the needy

This content was published on Aug 23, 2010 Around 20 million people have been affected by the floods, prompting the United Nations to appeal for $460 million (SFr482 million) in aid. swissinfo.ch reports from among two of the most affected villages in the country, in the districts of Nowshera and Charsadda. A stack of old tapes, a bracelet and two handfuls of wet…

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Probe into practices under war crimes prosecutor

This content was published on Aug 22, 2010 Judges at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia ordered the independent inquiry into practices used under Del Ponte, who is the current Swiss ambassador to Argentina, and two serving prosecutors, Hildegard Uertz-Retzleff and Daniel Saxon. The probe will look into methods “albeit indirect, exerted by certain investigators for the prosecution” in the case…

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