Today Switzerland is celebrating the International Human Rights Day with the launch of its Guidelines on the Protection of Human Rights Defenders!
- Event Date: 10.12.13
- Event Time: 11:04:00
Today, 10thDecember 2013, the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs of Switzerland launched the SwissGuidelines on the Protection of Human Rights Defenders in Zurich in theframework of the first edition of the Zurich International Film Festival and Forum onHuman Rights (FIFDH)and during a photoexhibition by Daniel Schweizer on the “Faces of Human RightsDefenders and the Extractive Industry”.
Check out the statement issued today by the Swiss Federal Department ofForeign Affairs here
Download the Swiss Guidelines on the Protection ofHuman Rights Defenders here
Daniel Schweizer
« FACES of HumanRights Defenders and the Extractive Industry »
a joint project by Daniel Schweizer and the Swiss FederalDepartment of Foreign Affairs
Opening: 10.12.2013, 5pm
Exhibition until 20.12.2013
Where? Flux laboratory Zurich Schiffbau 5Schiffbauplatz 5 8005 Zurich
This photographic exhibition designed by Filmmaker andartist Daniel Schweizer portrays human rights defenders working in the contextof the extractive industry.
The protection of human rights defenders is a Swissforeign policy priority. To put this priority into practice, Switzerland islaunching the Guidelines on the Protection of Human Rights Defenders on 10December 2013.
The exhibition and the launch of the Guidelines willtake place during the First Zurich edition of the international Film Festivaland Forum on Human Rights (FIFDH), a new branch of the FIFDH-Geneva.
For moreinformation, download the event flyer here.