Strengthning policy through dialoge
by Zaineb Ali, Universal Rights Group Blog, Blog, Contemporary and emerging human rights issues
On Sunday 29 November, the day of the referendum for the contentious and hard-fought Swiss Responsible Business Initiative (RBI), human rights expert Dick Marty stated , ‘if victory doesn’t come today, it will certainly come tomorrow.’ In the end, although the RBI won a majority of the popular vote, 50.7%, it failed to secure the majority of cantonal votes required to pass …
by H.E. Didier Burkhalter, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Switzerland and the URG team Blog, Blog, By invitation, International human rights institutions, mechanisms and processes
Fostering respect for human rights is one of Switzerland’s foreign policy objectives, as provided for in our Federal Constitution. In Switzerland, promoting and protecting human rights is essential to direct democracy because it forms the basis for the freedom and security of every individual. At the international level, respect for human rights contributes to peace and global security, to the …