Report submitted by Switzerland 2nd cycle

Point 30 deals with the right to education for foreign children who are born in Switzerland. Point 45 deals with Human Rights Education iin the context of the fight against racism. Points 77 and 78 are devoted to education.

30. The Federal Commission on Migration is of the opinion that weaknesses are still to be found in the area of children’s and young people’s affairs in connection with migration – especially the naturalization of foreigners born in Switzerland who do not benefit from a facilitated procedure and education for children and young people without residence permits.

45. The Service for Combating Racism carries out and coordinates activities to prevent racism, anti-Semitism and xenophobia and gives financial assistance to numerous projects in these domains. It funds integration and migration projects and human rights education, as well as projects in schools and for combating discrimination. In 2009, the Service published a legal guide to racial discrimination outlining the legal remedies available in cases of racial discrimination in all circumstances. Between 2010 and 2012, the Service offered approximately 40 training courses based on this guide. In 2010, it also published a study on strategies for combating right-wing extremism in Switzerland, which provides an overview of the different forms this extremism takes and the measures put in place to counteract it. For its part, the Special Service against extremism in the army, established in 2002, raises awareness and gives advice, training and information to members of the army, their relatives and their families when they encounter extremism.

77. The 2009 survey conducted by OECD under its Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) showed that 15-year-old Swiss students continue to achieve good or very good results in all the subjects tested. Gender and social background are still influential variables, but the influence of migration status on performance has fallen significantly in the last few years.

78. In May 2011, the Confederation and the cantons put forward, for the first time, common objectives for education in Switzerland with a view to making better use of the opportunities and potential of the Swiss education system. This declaration of common objectives is based on the findings of the authorities’ long-term monitoring of education. One of the early outputs of that monitoring process was the publication of the first report on education in Switzerland, in February 2010. The report addresses equal opportunity, effectiveness and efficiency issues at each level of the education system.

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NGO Contributions - Suisse 2nd cycle

NGOs which have submitted a report:

GIEACPC Global Initiative to End All Corporal Punishment of Children GSsA Groupe pour une Suisse sans Armée, (Geneva, Switzerland)

JS1 Joint Submission 1: Sexual Health Switzerland; Sexual Rights Initiative

JS2 Joint Submission 2: Istituto Internazionale Maria Ausiliatrice; and Association Points Coeur (IIMA) (Geneva, Switzerland)

JS3 Joint Submission 3: Swiss NGO Coalition for the UPR (Bern, Switzerland) (1)

JS4 Joint Submission 4: Fondation Suisse pour la Protection de l’Enfant (FSPE) ECPAT

JS5 Joint Submission 5: International Fellowship for Reconciliation (The Netherlands); Conscience and Peace Tax International (Belgium)

JS6 Joint Submission 6: World Evangelical Alliance (WEA); Swiss Evangelical Alliance (SEA⋅RES); Christliche Ostmission (COM) TdF Terre des Femmes (TdF) (Switzerland)

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(1) The following 47 organizations build the Swiss NGO COalition to the UPR

 ACAT

 Alliance Sud

 Amnesty International, Section suisse

 ask Arbeitsgruppe Schweiz-Kolumbien

 Association mondiale pour l'Ecole instrument de paix, EIP

 Association pour la prévention de la torture apt

 Augenauf Zürich

 AvenirSocial

 Berner Beratungsstelle für Sans-Papiers

 cfd : L’ONG féministe pour la paix

 Centre international de formation à l'enseignement des droits de l'homme et de la paix CIFEDHOP

 CODAP

 Communauté Baha’i de Suisse

 Conseil suisse pour la paix

 Déclaration de Berne, DB

 DeutschSchweizer PEN Zentrum

 Egalité Handicap

 EPER, Entraide protestante suisse

 Famille arc-en-ciel

 Fédération genevoise de coopération

 FIAN Suisse

 FIZ Fachstelle Frauenhandel und Frauenmigration

 Groupe de travail Tourisme et Développement

 humanrights.ch – MERS

 IGA SOS Racisme

 Incomindios Schweiz

 Juristes démocrates de Suisse

 Commission internationale des juristes, Section suisse

 Ligue Suisse des Droits de l'Homme

 NCBI Suisse

 Coordination post Beijing des ONG suisses

 Observatoire romand du droit d’asile et des étrangers, ODAE

 Organisation Mondiale Contre la Torture, OMCT

 Organisation suisse d’aide aux réfugiés, OSAR

 Organisation suisse des lesbiennes, LOS

 Pink Cross

 Réseau suisse des droits de l’enfant

 Sans-Papiers Anlaufstelle Zürich, SPAZ

 Schweiz. Beobachtungsstelle für Ausländer- und Asylrecht, SBAA

 Santé sexuelle suisse  Service Social International Société pour les peuples menacés

 Solidarité sans frontières, Sosf

 Syndicat des services publics, SSP

 Terre des Femmes.

 Transgender Network Switzerland RGNS

 Zwischengeschlecht.org

To the alternative report  http://www.humanrights.ch/upload/pdf/120423_ONG-UPR_Suisse_rapport_final_Web.pdf