Rigoberta Menchú TUM "We have learned that change cannot come through war..."
Hillary CLINTON "I am particularly horrified by the use of propaganda..."
USA Today – 01 Febuary 2012 – (originally published 29 Jan) DAVOS, Switzerland (AP) – Business and social media leaders teamed up Friday to tackle the transmission of HIV from mothers to babies, saying the medicine and the money are largely in place, and with the right organizational skills they can [...]
Jean-Michel Berthoud - swissinfo.ch – Tuesday, 13 December 2011 (originally published 10 Dec) Marthe Gosteli, the 94-year-old doyenne of the Swiss women’s rights scene, was honoured for her life’s work with a human rights prize. She received the prize at a ceremony in Bern on December 10 – Human Rights Day – from the International Society [...]
Finchannel Globel News – Monday, 17 October 2011 (originally published 10 Oct) The FINANCIAL — Geneva, 10 October 2011 – Ten women who have excelled in developing innovative business ideas and in providing jobs and increasing income in their communities have been selected for the Empretec Women in Business Award –an UNCTAD training and motivational [...]
Leigh Baldwin – Bloomberg News – Friday, 20 May, 2011 Since women won the right to vote in the canton of Appenzell Innerrhoden in 1990, females have risen to rule Switzerland’s politics, making up four of the seven- member cabinet. Combining a career and motherhood presents a steeper climb. Parents can end up spending almost [...]
Women hail feminine cabinet majority Jessica Dacey – Swissinfo.ch – Monday, 27 September, 2010 (originally published 22 Sept) After the “extraordinary” election of a first female majority in the Swiss cabinet, women’s rights campaigners hope it will resonate in areas where inequality remains. Parliament’s choice on Wednesday of 50-year-old consumer advocate and Social Democrat Simonetta [...]
