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Women to face extra year at work

This content was published on Nov 21, 2012 Among the proposals mooted by Interior Minister Alain Berset is an increase in women’s retirement age to 65 – up from 64 – to bring it in line with that of men. The aim is also to make the retirement age more flexible and encourage older people to stay in a job. Early retirement should…

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Proper justice instead of empty words

This content was published on Nov 20, 2012 “In Senegal, more than half of the population is under 18. I take a lot of interest in their rights and I need legal tools so I can work with them,” explains Abdul Aziz Danfakha. Danfakha, a deputy prosecutor in the Dakar regional court, is following a juvenile justice training programme in the Senegalese capital,…

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“We still have problems we need to solve”

This content was published on Nov 20, 2012 Speaking to swissinfo.ch on the occasion of the United Nations’ Universal Children’s Day, Kathie Wiederkehr, the head of the foundation, says child protection may not be seen as a major issue in Switzerland but it has gained in attention over the past 20 years. In a report looking into the issue in 2008, the Federal…

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Court allows third-party surveillance to trace suspect

This content was published on Nov 19, 2012 The judges in Lausanne said that Zurich prosecutors may tap the wires of a friend of a suspected robber in order to track him down. The supreme court argued that alleged offenders should not be allowed to escape surveillance measures by frequently changing phones. The ruling may be a prelude to changes to the federal…

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Media cites new challenges in old Gaza conflict

This content was published on Nov 18, 2012 The NZZ am Sonntag applied a larger lens to the age-old conflict, citing the 40,000 dead in Syria in the past 20 months versus the 6,500 Palestinians killed in spats with Israel in the last 12 years. “Of course, the death toll is not the only indicator of suffering,” the paper stated. “However, it is…

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Brazilian sex traffickers target Switzerland

This content was published on Nov 18, 2012 Between 2005 and 2011, 475 Brazilians, mostly women, were victims of people trafficking networks, according to the report published at the end of October. Of this total, 337 were forced into prostitution. Switzerland emerged as the second most popular destination – 127 official cases were reported – after Surinam (133), a transit country for the…

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Sex workers “are deprived of all freedom”

This content was published on Nov 18, 2012 At the end of October, police in Bern dismantled a human trafficking network. Seven people have been charged with bringing into Switzerland 50 women and transsexuals, mostly of Thai origin, with the intention of forcing them into prostitution. The phenomenon is not new. A few weeks earlier, clandestine trafficking of Hungarian prostitutes was uncovered in…

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Teenagers urged to take up politics

This content was published on Nov 17, 2012 Around 200 young people were at the youth session in Bern on Saturday to debate political issues such as environmental policy, bank data protection and the ageing population. Their conclusions will be presented to the speaker of the House of Representatives, Hansjörg Walter. Urging their continued political activism for the good of Switzerland, Berset, who…

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Public set to vote on phasing out nuclear power

This content was published on Nov 16, 2012 The initiative was needed to ensure the transition to the government’s new energy strategy, said Regula Rytz, co-president of the Green Party, before the media in Bern on Thursday. “The nuclear phase-out should not be delayed any further,” she added. Rytz described the initiative as a “safety net” providing protection against the “unbelievable risks and…

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Media don’t hold breath for Chinese reform

This content was published on Nov 16, 2012 “Sobering and yet not hopeless” was the title of the editorial in the Basler Zeitung, commenting on Thursday’s naming of Xi Jinping to the top post of the ruling Communist Party. Long-anointed successor Xi “spoke openly and smiled”, it wrote, at the end of a weeklong Communist Party congress and months of divisive bargaining “and…

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