Amnesty International has launched a campaign calling for a new sexual consent law in Switzerland which would make sex with someone who is not voluntarily participating become illegal.
More than one in five women in Switzerland aged 16 and over has been the victim of sexual assault, but only eight percent of cases are reported to police, a new survey shows.
A woman who has accused a top UNAIDS official of sexual assault rejected on Monday the UN's decision to reopen the case, saying she has no confidence it will deliver justice.
The former head of world football Sepp Blatter said Saturday that claims by US women's goalkeeper Hope Solo that he had grabbed her backside were "absurd".
Several women were allegedly robbed and
sexually assaulted in Zurich on New Year's Eve, Swiss police said on Thursday, noting the attack method appeared "a little bit similar" to that used in a spate of assaults in Germany.
A 59-year-old financial counsellor from the Basel area who repeatedly raped his daughter for two years from the age of seven and filmed the abuse faces an indefinite period in a psychiatric treatment centre.
A former theatre teacher convicted of having sex and sado-masochistic relations with adolescent girls who were his pupils, over a 10-year period, was sentenced by a Lausanne magistrates’ court on Thursday to five years in jail.
A criminal court in Nyon in the canton of Vaud on Thursday sentenced a 64-year-old financial manager to nine years in jail for raping a 11-year-old girl and sexually abusing another girl.
<p>A dentist accused of indecent exposure and performing sexual acts on patients has been sentenced to 15 months in prison with no parole and a hefty fine.</p>
<p>The majority of young sex offenders do not go on to re-offend after sentencing, according to a study published in the Swiss Journal of Criminology.</p>
<p>A dentist may receive a prison sentence and the suspension of his practice for sexually assaulting patients at his practice in Vevey, on Lake Geneva.</p>
<p><span lang="EN-GB">A recent study has shown that while sexual assaults on younger children are most often committed by family members, adolescents are more often abused by their peers.</span></p>
<p><span lang="EN-GB">The Swiss justice system is facing accusations of laxity after revelations about a Bern machinist arrested for sexual assaulting a woman despite previous convictions for more than 20 similar offences.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB">Two young women were convicted of sexual assault </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">in the Zürich district court on Tuesday</span><span style="font-family: Arial;"> after seeking revenge on their philandering ex-lover last summer by gluing his testicles to his thigh and decorating his genital area with pink feathers.</span></span></p>
