In an ongoing effort to include foreign nationals in Switzerland’s political decisions, one party is proposing granting voting rights to foreign nationals in federal elections. It submitted the project on Monday, while the parliament is in its spring session.
A Swiss parliamentary commission is to prepare a study on gay marriage after the right-wing Swiss People’s Party (SVP) on Friday failed in its bid to bury the issue.
A single mother who wanted to keep the identity of her daughter's father secret from the child has lost her final appeal and been ordered to reveal who he is.
Rain didn’t dampen the festive atmosphere at the annual Zurich Pride parade that brought together 9,000 members of the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender community on Saturday.
The World Health Organization on Monday released its first-ever guidelines on how medical professionals should treat victims of female genital mutilation (FGM), hoping to ease the terrible suffering caused by the widely condemned practice.
If you're a pro-EU Brit living abroad, there's plenty you can do to keen Britain 'in', explains Laura Shields from the Brits Abroad: Yes to Europe initiative.
A growing number of migrants worldwide are fleeing "sickening atrocities" and often encounter cruelty and xenophobia instead of compassion, the UN's rights chief said Monday.
