Full Coverage: Switzerland

15.07.2008 A judgment by Switzerland's highest judicial body "sets a grave precedent for independent humanitarian action in zones of conflict," says an international medical organisation.

06.03.2007 The Swiss pharmaceutical company Novartis is beginning to lose the battle to protect its own reputation as it continues to pursue a controversial court case against India over an AIDS drug, an international development charity said today.
+ MSF urges Novartis shareholders to join the call to ‘Drop the Case' against the Indian government

08.02.2007 Following the first-ever gathering of the Internet Governance Forum (IGF), held in Athens from 30 October to 2 November 2006, a special stock-taking session will take place next Tuesday, 13 February, at Geneva’s Palais des Nations where the participants will assess the achievements of the inaugural meeting and pave the way forward.

10.04.2006 An HIV-positive woman in Switzerland has received a suspended prison sentence after having consensual unprotected sex, even though none of her partners subsequently became infected with HIV, and she informed the men of her infection before having sex.

23.12.2005 This "Topic"-section gives an overview of the topic of "ICT in class" in the context of international development cooperation. The geographical focus is currently being placed on the African continent.

20.12.2005 The SDC has redesigned its Internet platform with the aim of presenting its activities more clearly and giving visitors easy access to the vast range of information on the site.

05.12.2005 Representatives from 192 countries are due in Geneva on Monday for a conference to decide whether to adopt a new emblem for the Red Cross movement.
Switzerland: Decision on an additional emblem

29.11.2005 People turned up at polling booths across Switzerland in a referendum to determine whether genetically engineered crops and animals can be grown there during the next five years.

18.11.2005 Swiss Communications Minister Moritz Leuenberger denies a rupture with Tunisia over his government's controversial stand on the host government's treatment of journalists and human rights activists before the UN World Summit on the Information Society.

20.10.2005 The “Ten Years of Dayton and Beyond” International Conference for Bosnia and Herzegovina started today at the International Conference Centre in Geneva, Switzerland. The Conference will end tomorrow, October 21.

04.10.2005 Food and trade policy analyst Devinder Sharma write in India Together that Swiss biotech corporation Syngenta has tightened its monopoly control over rice. Seeking global patents over thousands of genes in rice, the multinational based in a country that produces no rice itself, is set to own the world's most important staple food crop.

27.09.2005 PrepCom3 of WSIS kicked off on 19th September.This is the last preparatory meeting before the final summit in November in Tunisia, and is expected to present the final documents that will lay down the principles of creating an information society based on equity, freedom and inclusion. Reports Bidisha Pillai from Geneva.

20.09.2005 The final preparatory meeting for the forthcoming Tunis Phase of the World Summit on the Information Society opens today at the Palais de Nations in Geneva with UNESCO observers participating throughout the two week event.

11.10.2004 US authorities last Thursday seized two servers that host the websites of global news network Indymedia a week before the start of the European Social Forum. The FBI says it acted on behalf of the Swiss and Italian governments.

24.08.2004 The decision has been made by the Swiss Ministry of Justice to hand over most of the funds from the ex-dictator's frozen account, now determined to have originated from criminal sources, to the Nigerian government. For its part, Nigeria has agreed to use the assets to finance development projects under Swiss supervision.

23.01.2004 Global business leaders need to triple their efforts if there is any hope of meeting widely agreed development goals, concludes an independent report commissioned by the Davos World Economic Forum, and which provides the first ever attempt at ranking the commitment of the business community to the Millennium Declaration goals.

21.01.2004 Christian Aid calls for laws to make multinational companies meet basic social and environmental standards in poor countries, as world business leaders and political figures gather in Switzerland for the World Economic Forum, from 21-25 January.

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