Manon Schick

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Manon Schick (2017)

Manon Schick (born December 25, 1974 in Lausanne ) is a Swiss - German journalist and human rights activist . From 2011 to 2020 she was director of the Swiss section of Amnesty International .

Life

Manon Schick grew up in Lausanne. She took an early interest in journalism. At the age of 14, the radio presenter Jean-Marc Richard from western Switzerland enabled her to enter journalism - she became a presenter at the Lausanne broadcaster Radio Acidule . Until 1997 she did a journalistic internship at the weekly newspaper L'Illustré . She then began studying humanities at the University of Lausanne .

The press reports on apartheid in South Africa are one of the reasons why she became interested in human rights and their defense. Schick has been committed to Amnesty International since she was 22 years old. In 1995 she joined the organization as a volunteer . In 2003 she traveled to Colombia with Peace Brigades International and accompanied local human rights groups in their work. In 2004 she became media spokesperson for the Swiss section of Amnesty International, succeeding Catherine Morand. Three years later she became head of the media and lobbying department.

In 2011 Manon Schick took over the management of Amnesty International Switzerland from Daniel Bolomey. She continues the work of Bolomey and sets new accents, for example in the areas of migration, asylum or corporate responsibility, where she also engaged in controversial political debates.

In March 2017 she published a book Mes héroïnes: Des femmes qui s'engagent . These are portraits of eleven activists in the field of human rights.

She is part of the initiative committee of the corporate responsibility initiative .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Alexandra Karle succeeds Manon Schick. In: amnesty.ch. June 1, 2020, accessed June 1, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Saskia Galitch: Manon Schick, directrice d'Amnesty Suisse . In: Femina . January 13, 2015 ( femina.ch ).
  3. ↑ Florence Perre: Manon Schick: Un engagement sans limit. In: L'Hebdo - Archives. hebdo.ch, March 10, 2010, accessed on March 25, 2017 (French).
  4. ↑ Manon Schick sera la nouvelle directrice générale d'Amnesty en Suisse (AI). In: Infosud - Tribune des Droits Humains. infosud.org, December 22, 2010, accessed March 25, 2017 (French).
  5. ^ A b Nouvelle directrice à la tete de la Section . In: Amnesty International Suisse . No. 64 , February 2011 (French, amnesty.ch ).
  6. ^ Thomas Stephens: "Le sort des migrants en Suisse est inadmissible" . March 2, 2011 ( swissinfo.ch ).
  7. ↑ Mes héroïnes, ces femmes qui s'engagent. In: amnesty.ch. shop.amnesty.ch, accessed on March 25, 2017 .
  8. ↑ Corporate Responsibility Initiative: Personalities. Retrieved August 3, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Nice, Manon
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Swiss journalist and human rights activist
DATE OF BIRTH December 25, 1974
PLACE OF BIRTH Lausanne