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Swiss discuss use of “torture” weapon

This content was published on Nov 26, 2007 The UN Committee against Torture recently judged Tasers to be a potentially lethal form of torture and urged Portugual to reconsider arming its police with them. “The use of these weapons causes acute pain, constituting a form of torture,” the committee said at the end of its 39th session in Geneva. “In certain cases they…

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Rightwing party unable to consolidate gains

This content was published on Nov 25, 2007 In canton Zurich, the People’s Party president, Ueli Maurer, was unable to win the seat previously held by party colleague Hans Hofmann. Instead, Verena Diener of the recently formed liberal Greens who was also a long-time member of the cantonal government won Zurich’s second Senate seat. The first seat was taken by Felix Gutzwiller of…

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Voters give Zurich airport wings

This content was published on Nov 25, 2007 In other regional votes on Sunday, the people of St Gallen approved plans to make the eastern city the first in Switzerland to allow surveillance cameras to be installed in public places. The initiative to limit flight movements to 250,000 a year and extending a night ban at Zurich airport was launched in 2004. It…

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Swiss troops to stay in Kosovo come what may

This content was published on Nov 20, 2007 Switzerland’s defence ministry said on Tuesday that Swiss peacekeeping troops would remain in Kosovo, even in the event of a unilateral independence declaration. After his most recent visit to the Serbian province in August, Defence Minister Samuel Schmid said the mandate of the Swiss troops would be called into question in such a change of…

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UN sports advisor champions fair play

This content was published on Nov 17, 2007 In an interview with swissinfo, Ogi looks back on his time at the UN and talks about the positive role of sport. He assesses the Swiss political climate and says it’s time to get positive about the Euro 2008 football championships. Ogi’s international efforts have borne fruit. Over the past seven years the UN has…

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Swiss see mutual benefit in payments to new EU

This content was published on Nov 15, 2007 Swiss Foreign Minister Micheline Calmy-Rey and Economics Minister Doris Leuthard were speaking at a conference on cooperation with eastern Europe on Thursday. The framework agreements for the contribution are expected to be ready for signing this year. The Swiss view on the benefits was shared by government representatives of the new European Union member states…

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Government puts arms exports to Pakistan on hold

This content was published on Nov 14, 2007 A cabinet statement on Wednesday said the move was being made because of the current political situation in the country. In September a group on the political left, judging the law on exports was not restrictive enough, handed in a people’s initiative calling for a total ban. For the third time in less than a…

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Blacklist procedures “violate human rights”

This content was published on Nov 12, 2007 It said the procedures used for blacklisting by the United Nations Security Council and the European Union were “totally arbitrary and have no credibility whatsoever”. “These procedures must urgently be overhauled to make them fairer,” said the Legal Affairs Committee of the Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly (PACE). The committee made its announcement after approving…

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Swiss judges human rights in European context

This content was published on Nov 11, 2007 A law professor, Malinverni tells swissinfo about the importance of the Strasbourg court, which monitors compliance of the European Court of Human Rights Convention in the 46 member states of the Council of Europe. Malinverni has been the Swiss representative at the court since the beginning of the year. In 2006 there were nine judgements…

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