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.