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Humanrights.ch Human Rights Switzerland (MERS)
purpose	Human rights
Chair:	Dieter von Blarer
Executive Director:	Marianne Aeberhard
Establishment date:	1999
Seat :	Bern
Website:	https://www.humanrights.ch

Humanrights.ch - Menschenrechte Schweiz , also known as HumanRights , MERS , is a non-governmental organization (NGO) based in Bern that advocates human rights.

Humanrights.ch is not to be confused with Human Rights Watch .

organization

“Humanrights.ch - Human Rights Switzerland” was founded in 1999 as the successor organization to the “Academy for Human Rights AMR”. From 1999 to 2006 it was called “Human Rights Switzerland MERS”, in the transition period after 2006 it was called “Humanrights.ch / MERS”.

As an NGO operating in Switzerland, HumanRights.ch requires association statutes in accordance with Art. 60 ff ZGB (ch) , in which the purpose of the organization is specified so that it can act as a legal person . This corresponds to the registered association (eV) in Germany.

activity

aims

humanrights.ch aims to better anchor human rights by means of:

• Informing and raising public awareness of human rights issues
• Information for and networking of non-governmental organizations in Switzerland
• Coordination and preparation of NGO shadow reports on human rights treaties
• Project work in the field of human rights education

activities

The activities of humanrights.ch mainly include information, awareness raising, networking, advice and education. It also prepares reports and statements on the human rights situation in Switzerland. He also participates in NGO campaigns.

In 2017, for example, a telephone hotline was started for prisoners and their relatives.

Information platform

HumanRights.ch has also been operating an information platform since 1999 which provides detailed information about human rights, both with a focus on Switzerland and international human rights.

75 organizations from German- and French-speaking Switzerland participate in the NGO human rights platform, representing a broad thematic spectrum of human rights work and campaigning for human rights to be observed in Switzerland and / or abroad. The secretariat of the NGO platform human rights is Humanrights.ch.

The editorial team at humanrights.ch is committed to independent, fair and critical reporting. The information work is politically independent and impartial. The editors' work is based on the "Declaration of the Duties of Journalists" of the Swiss Press Council .

Partner organizations

• Competence center for human rights at the University of Zurich
• Swiss competence center for human rights
• Protection factor M
• Child protection Switzerland
• etc.

Web links

Wiktionary: Human right  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

• Humanrights.ch - partner institution in the pilot phase Swiss Competence Center for Human Rights (SKMR)
• Human rights make us strong Participation by HumanRights.ch
• Recognition of the Istanbul Protocol Petition from ACAT for better protection of victims of torture, participation by HumanRights.ch (pdf)
• Protection factor M - human rights protect us campaign by Dialog ECHR, from November 27, 2014, participation by HumanRights.ch

Individual evidence

1. ↑ With basic knowledge of human rights. Published by Schweizer-Portal.ch, accessed on March 13, 2019 .  Information offered by this NGO
2. ↑ National partners. Published by: Frei-haben.ch, accessed on March 13, 2019 ( refers to this NGO as a partner). 
3. ↑ Instrument for human rights education. (pdf) Edited by: Hirschmann Foundation, accessed on March 13, 2019 . 
4. ↑ SKMR and humanrights.ch: Two complementary information offers. Published by: Swiss Competence Center for Human Rights (SKMR), accessed on March 8, 2019 . 
5. ↑ Social significance of knowledge about basic and human rights. (pdf) Edited by: Hirschmann Foundation, accessed on March 13, 2019 . 
6. ↑ Fighting together «NGO platform human rights» founded. Retrieved on March 8, 2019 (the list of members is published on Humanrights.ch). 
7. ↑ Human rights work in Switzerland «NGO platform human rights». Published by Amnesty International Switzerland, accessed on March 8, 2019 . 
8. ↑ NGO platform human rights. Published by Observer.ch, accessed on March 8, 2019 . 
9. ↑ Media release of the NGO platform human rights - UPR coalition. Published by Amnesty International Switzerland, accessed on March 8, 2019 . 
10. ↑ Human rights and Swiss foreign policy. (pdf) Hrsg: Working Group Foreign Policy of the NGO Platform Human Rights, SS 37, 44 , accessed on March 8, 2019 . 
11. ↑ Fredy Gsteiger: Human Rights in Switzerland - Council of Europe presents a long list of shortcomings. Published by: SRF.ch, accessed on March 8, 2019 . 
12. ↑ NGO follow-up responses. (pdf) Humanrights.ch and Swiss Refugee Aid. Editor: Center for Civil and Political Rights (CCPR Center), accessed March 8, 2019 . 
13. ↑ 3rd Periodic Cycle. Humanrights.ch and Swiss Refugee Aid. Editor: Center for Civil and Political Rights (CCPR Center), accessed March 8, 2019 . 
14. ^ Sarah Serafini: Telephone hotline. In: watson.ch. Retrieved March 13, 2019 . 
15. ^ Report by the NGO platform humanrights.ch. Published by: Refugee Aid Switzerland, accessed on March 8, 2019 . 
16. ^ Nina Schneider: NGO platform human rights. Ed: Alliance Sud, accessed March 8, 2019 . 
17. ↑ mission statement humanrights.ch. (pdf) Accessed February 2, 2019 . 
18. ↑ Human Rights Switzerland (MERS). humanrights.ch, accessed on February 2, 2019 . 
19. ↑ International human rights. Retrieved February 2, 2019 . 
20. ↑ Annual meeting 2017 of the NGO platform human rights. Ed: Our Law, accessed on March 8, 2019 . 
21. ↑ NGO platform human rights / Plateforme droits humains of the ONG. Ed: Queeramnesty, accessed March 8, 2019 . 
22. ^ Declaration of the duties of journalists. (No longer available online.) Swiss Press Council, archived from the original on June 11, 2016 ; accessed on February 2, 2019 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
23. ↑ partner organizations. Published by: Competence Center for Human Rights at the University of Zurich, accessed on March 13, 2019 (the cooperation with this NGO is particularly in the area of ​​information). 
24. ↑ SKMR and MERS: Two complementary information offers. Published by: Swiss Competence Center for Human Rights (SKMR), accessed on March 13, 2019 . 
25. ↑ Partner institution in the pilot phase. Published by: Swiss Competence Center for Human Rights (SKMR), accessed on March 13, 2019 (designates this NGO as a partner). 
26. ↑ Protection factor M - human rights protect us. Campaign by Dialog ECHR, from Nov. 27, 2014. Ed .: Protection factor M, accessed on March 13, 2019 .  , with participation from MERS
27. ^ Campaign of the Alliance of Civil Society. Ed: Schutz Faktor M, accessed on March 13, 2019 .  , with participation from MERS
28. ↑ Strong partners. Published by: Kinderschutz Schweiz, accessed on March 13, 2019 (refers to this NGO as a partner).