Cluster: Swiss Identity

Swiss healthcare: between the state and the free market

This content was published on Sep 9, 2014 “No to a health system like in Italy!”, “We don’t want the French social security system”: opponents of a proposal to introduce a single public health insurance company compare in their campaigns the quality of the Swiss healthcare system and the defects of those of other countries. But is this valid? “The comparison with Italy…

Demographics

How propaganda flooded Switzerland during WWI

This content was published on Sep 8, 2014 The gaping cultural divide between German-speaking Switzerland and the rest of the country during the First World War was exploited by internal and external propaganda on a level never seen before.

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Four Swiss investigated for jihad trips

This content was published on Sep 7, 2014 Switzerland is investigating four people whom it suspects travelled from Switzerland to Syria in order to join terrorists fighting there for an Islamic theocracy, Lauber said. “We’re investigating these cases on suspicion of supporting a criminal organization and providing funding for a terrorist group.” The Islamic State (IS) has been inspiring militants through its rapid…

Culture

Retracing mountain traders’ trails

This content was published on Sep 6, 2014 Every year, men and women in historic dress follow old trade routes through the Alps with donkeys and mules. Hikers accompany them on a 150-kilometre-long journey from Lake Lucerne to Italy.

Culture

Monet from Gurlitt collection found in suitcase

This content was published on Sep 5, 2014 A painting by Claude Monet has surfaced in a suitcase owned by Cornelius Gurlitt, who left his entire collection of controversially sourced art to Bern’s Museum of Fine Arts in May.

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WHO report ‘gives misleading view on e-cigarettes’

This content was published on Sep 5, 2014 In a critique of the WHO’s background paper on e-cigarettesExternal link, which acted as a blueprint for a WHO report last month calling for more regulation of the devices, they said its evaluation of the evidence was inaccurate (see box). They also criticised the WHO-backed reports for “using alarmist language to describe findings and to…

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Having a child in Madagascar

This content was published on Sep 5, 2014 International donors pulled out of the country following a coup in 2009 and health and education services have suffered. Organisations like the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) have stepped in to address the urgent needs in sexual, reproductive and maternal health. Today, three-quarters of the population live on under $1 per day. Women continue to…

Millennium Goals: all talk, no action?

This content was published on Sep 5, 2014 A series of new sustainable development goalsExternal link will replace the MDGsExternal link, which will expire in September 2015. But how much has actually been achieved since 2000, when 189 UN member states declared their intention to combat global poverty by signing the non-binding Millennium DeclarationExternal link? swissinfo.ch sought answers from three specialists in economic development.…

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Rwanda’s health service evolution

This content was published on Sep 5, 2014 Rwanda has been praised for the development of its healthcare, despite having only 625 doctors at the start of the decade. This podcast, originally published on The GuardianExternal link, discusses whether other developing countries can learn from Rwanda. Rwanda’s advances in healthcare come under the spotlight in this global development podcast. We look at key…

History

Arab world lags behind in gender parity in education

This content was published on Sep 5, 2014 Since 1990 Morocco External linkand Yemen have reported headway on realising MDGs 2 and 3 on universal primary educationExternal link and promoting gender equalityExternal link, respectively. At national level Morocco has pushed to achieve universal education. Net enrolment in primary schools rose from 55.3% in 1990 to 98.7% in 2013, according to the United Nations. Thanks to efforts by civil…

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