Cluster: Swiss Identity

Young Tunisians helped into the job market

This content was published on Jul 15, 2012 They have not been studying at a chic city salon, but at the El-Anaka training centre in Sidi Hssine Zahrouni, one of the poorer suburbs of the Tunisian capital. The project, run by a Tunisian non-governmental organisation, Association Campagne, aims to give disadvantaged young people a leg up into professional life, and is being supported…

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The Tunisian revolution in a riot of colours

This content was published on Jul 15, 2012 They were invited to decorate the supports of an urban motorway in Tunis.Some contain overtly political references; others are left to the viewer to interpret. (Images: Julia Slater, swissinfo.ch)

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Railway cannot ban placard critical of Israel

This content was published on Jul 13, 2012 The placard commenting on Israel’s settlement policy had been hung in the station in March 2009. It contained the phrases “Israel: built with violence on Palestinian land” and “Injustice calls for resistance!”. It had been put up by a placard posting company on behalf of a member of the Palestine Solidarity Action group. The railway…

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One child dies every 45 seconds

This content was published on Jul 13, 2012 However since the beginning of the 21st century, the disease has been in decline. In 2000, malaria killed an estimated one million people – ten years later, that number was down to 655,000. But while in 11 African countries the decline is more than 50 per cent, specialists insist that progress remains fragile.

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Who wants to pay to fight malaria?

This content was published on Jul 13, 2012 “While the anti-malarial market is huge in terms of those in need, it is small in terms of profit.” This statement by the non-profit group Medicines for Malaria Venture (MMV) in one of its promotional brochures may seem brutal. But it clearly shows why malaria, formerly known as marsh fever due to its associations with…

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Lenin’s view of the July 1912 Zurich strike

This content was published on Jul 12, 2012 His three-page commentary, translated into English in Lenin Collected Works and available through the Marxists Internet Archive, provides an eyewitness account of Swiss society at the time. The July 12 strike was important because it was the biggest general strike up to that time, and not only a strike of one profession or one industry,…

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Former Fifa boss named in corruption case

This content was published on Jul 12, 2012 The names were revealed on Wednesday after the Federal Court lifted a gagging order imposed by a court in the canton of Zug in 2010. The Zug court had made the ruling as part of the settlement of a case examining allegations that officials of the world football governing body had taken unethical payments from ISL.…

Culture

Swiss sweetheart generates tourism cash

This content was published on Jul 12, 2012 If you want to find Heidi the obvious place to look is Heidiland – it’s not an amusement park, but a real place.

Culture

Heidi’s wholesome message still winning fans

This content was published on Jul 12, 2012 “If Heidi is so popular today, it is because it demonstrates an ecological sensibility, long before the term was coined, which chimes with current health trends,” according to Geneva literary professor Jean-Michel Wissmer. “Everywhere we turn someone is trying to sell us the mountains with the claim that the air is purer, the flowers more…

Culture

Heidi, a story retold and revived

This content was published on Jul 12, 2012 The first Swiss production was a black and white movie, Heidi, in 1952 by Luigi Comencini. During the late 1970s and 1980s Swiss children grew up with a Swiss and German television co-production which stayed true to the original story. Recent filmmakers have done new takes on the tale. In Thomas Imbach’s film from 2001…

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