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Human rights defenders / Events / 2013 / December

Today Switzerland is celebrating the International Human Rights Day with the launch of its Guidelines on the Protection of Human Rights Defenders!

Today, 10th December 2013, the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs of Switzerland launched the Swiss Guidelines on the Protection of Human Rights Defenders in Zurich in the framework of the first edition of the Zurich International Film Festival and Forum on Human Rights (FIFDH) and during a photo exhibition by Daniel Schweizer on the “Faces of Human Rights Defenders and the Extractive Industry”.


Check out the statement issued today by the Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs here


Download the Swiss Guidelines on the Protection of Human Rights Defenders here


 

Daniel Schweizer

« FACES of Human Rights Defenders and the Extractive Industry »

 

a joint project by Daniel Schweizer and the Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs

 

Opening: 
10.12.2013, 5pm

Exhibition
 until 20.12.2013

Where?
 Flux laboratory Zurich Schiffbau 5 Schiffbauplatz 5
8005 Zurich

 

This photographic exhibition designed by Filmmaker and artist Daniel Schweizer portrays human rights defenders working in the context of the extractive industry.

 

The protection of human rights defenders is a Swiss foreign policy priority. To put this priority into practice, Switzerland is launching the Guidelines on the Protection of Human Rights Defenders on 10 December 2013.

 

The exhibition and the launch of the Guidelines will take place during the First Zurich edition of the international Film Festival and Forum on Human Rights (FIFDH), a new branch of the FIFDH-Geneva.


For more information, download the event flyer here.

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Date: December 10, 2013
Activity: Human Rights Defenders
Type: Events
Subjects: Human Rights Defenders

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