Cluster: Swiss Identity

Making a life work of playing with reality

This content was published on Oct 30, 2013 Schweiker was born in Zurich in 1989, the second of four daughters. Her father was an engineer, her mother a landscape gardener. When she was about to start school, the family moved to Heilbronn in the German state of Baden-Württemberg because of her father’s work. A disclaimer is needed here. Schweiker disdains conventional biographical details like ages,…

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Swiss study uncovers widespread sex abuse

This content was published on Oct 29, 2013 The figures come from a Zurich University study that questioned 6,000 ninth-grade students (aged 15-17) across the nation. Released on Tuesday, the study described the abuse as “alarmingly widespread”. However, it also said that there had not been an increase in more severe forms of abuse over the past two decades. Both genders reported “sexual…

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Somali women recount integration journey

This content was published on Oct 29, 2013 The founder, Leyla Kanyare, is set to receive a prestigious prize for her integration work from the Foundation for Human Rights and Freedom in Bern. At a party to celebrate her award, swissinfo.ch spoke to her and other Somali women about escaping their homeland and the hurdles they faced on arrival in Switzerland. (Julie Hunt, swissinfo.ch)

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Somali refugees seek to integrate

This content was published on Oct 29, 2013 Somali asylum seekers have to deal with a difficult situation, having only been provisionally admitted on Swiss soil and their integration proving difficult. Finding a job is also an obstacle course. But despite all the hurdles, more and more are making their way to Switzerland, with over 4,000 calling it home at least temporarily by…

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Drive-in sex boxes lack appeal

This content was published on Oct 28, 2013 Under the gaze of what seemed many of the world’s television networks, Zurich’s experiment began at the end of August. The “sex boxes” are a dozen open garages, where drivers roll up to make use of the prostitutes’ services. Switzerland’s economic hub became the first Swiss city to provide such a facility, following the example…

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Officials optimistic ahead of winter season

This content was published on Oct 28, 2013 “After three years of falling figures, we’re seeing the start of a modest upturn,” Switzerland Tourism President Jean-François Roth told reporters in Lausanne on Monday. Roth and his colleagues are encouraged by a 5.4% rise in overnight stays this summer (June-August) largely driven by foreign visitors. Switzerland’s core market – British (+13%), French (+5%) and…

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Sentencing for crimes hits record level

This content was published on Oct 28, 2013 Over half of all the sentences handed down involved offences against road laws, but these only increased by 3.7%. More than a third of the convictions were related to the penal code (+16.6%), 15.9% against the foreign nationals act (+17.5%) and 5.5% against the narcotics legislation (+20.7%). Sentencing in half of cases involving the penal…

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Swiss extradite businessman

This content was published on Oct 28, 2013 The individual, a dual US and Italian citizen, was arrested on October 17 at his Swiss residence in the southern canton of Ticino. The extradition procedure was concluded after the businessman refrained from appealing his extradition, Folco Galli, spokesman for the Federal Office for Justice, told swissinfo.ch. On October 28, the suspect “has been handed…

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‘It was a long road with a lot of branches’

This content was published on Oct 27, 2013 Professor of philosophy at Bern University, and of ethics, ecology and multiculturalism at Bern University of Teacher Education, Kesselring likes to take roundabout ways and to discover new paths. And not only in the caves he visits. “I discovered philosophy in high school where a German professor encouraged some students, including me, to study it,”…

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