switzerland issues

Swiss Man Legally Changes Gender to Retire Earlier

https://www.france24.com/en/20190519-switzerland-guns-eu-aligned-firearms-control-vote Everyone loves a gun law thread. :thumbsup:

BBC News - Switzerland's shame: The children used as cheap farm labour "Thousands of people in Switzerland who were forced into child labour are demanding compensation for their stolen childhoods. Since the 1850s hundreds of thousands of Swiss children were taken from their parents and sent to...

1:12 is an initiative by the People in my country. there will be a vote on a law that will forbid companies to pay the highest earner more than 12 times as much as the lowest earner in the Company. goverment recommended to vote against the law, so did economic lobbies. several companies have...

During an AIDS prevention campain, the catholic church in Lucerne, Switzerland, is distributing condoms. They suspect the Vatican might be unhappy about it. I really wonder why ... ;) I guess we're in for a pretty funny show between the various dioceses in Switzerland, not to mention the...

Switzerland will get a new Minaret. This is angering our bigots a lot, but it was the correct decision. While the Atheist in me says, oh no yet another Ignorance tower, but the Freedom of religion supporting part in me says, as long one religion can build its tower, every religion should be...

in another thread a report about sex traffiking showed problems with Switzerland and its combat against it. one of the critique point was " The government did not make any discernible efforts to reduce the demand for commercial sex " has anyone in their coutnry such campaigns? how do they...

In the recent decision to release the convicted pedophile Roman Polanski from house arrest and refuse an extradition request the Swiss Government said that national interest considerations had played a role http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment_and_arts/10601930.stm What are the national...

Soon the swiss voters have to vote. Do we want our Assault rifles be stored at home like it is now? or do we want to change the law, so the assault rifles would be stored in Army armories. At the moment all people that serve in the army have stored their full automatic assault rifle at home...