SWITZERLAND
Centre
International de Formation a L’enseignment des Droits de L’homme et de la Paix
Commission Nationale Suisse
Justitia et Pax
Human Rights
Information and Documentation Systems - HURIDOCS
Institute of
Ethnology/Seminaire d’Ethnologie (Fribourg)
Institut de l‘Europe Orientale
(Fribourg)
Institut
Interdisciplinaire d’Ethique et des Droits de l’Homme
Institut Universitaire
de Hautes Etudes Internationales
International
Commission of Jurists – ICJ/Centre for the Independence of Judges and Lawyers –
CIJL
International Service for Human Rights
Organisation Mondiale
Contre la Torture – OMCT
Sociological Institute (Zurich)
Swiss Forum for Migration Studies
Unité
de Recherche de Formation et d’Applications Pedagogiques sur les Droits de
L’homme
CENTRE
INTERNATIONAL DE FORMATION A L’ENSEIGNMENT DES DROITS DE L’HOMME ET DE LA PAIX
The Centre is concerned with all areas of human rights education, new rights, duties, obligations, codes of conduct, conventions and recommendations. Its training courses include: international standard setting instruments; universal and regional instruments; verification and control procedures for human rights; UN and its specialised agencies; regional lever bodies and National Commissions; human rights education; protection of special groups; rights of children, women, minorities, refugees and the handicapped. Its current research project is: ‘Pédagogies relatives à l’èducation aux droits de l’homme’.
COMMISSION NATIONALE SUISSE JUSTITIA ET
PAX
Effingerstrasse 11, C.P. 6872, CH-3001 Berne
Tel.: ++41 31 3815955
Fax: ++41 31 3818349
Director: A. Lepori
The Commission aims at promoting worldwide human rights, justice and peace; it also deals with social justice, ethics, religion, bioethics and migration issues. Its current research projects are: ‘Droits de l’homme’, ‘Cooperation au dévelopment’, ‘Question bio-éthiques’, ‘Ethics’ and ‘Requérants d’asile et les refugiés an Suisse’.
HUMAN RIGHTS
INFORMATION AND DOCUMENTATION SYSTEMS - HURIDOCS
International Secretariat, 48 Chemin du Grand-Mont Fleury ,
CH-1290 Versoix
Tel.: ++41 22 7555252
Fax: ++41 22 7555260
E-mail: huridocs@oln.comlink.apc.org
Website: http://www.huridocs.org
Director: Manuel Guzman
HURIDOCS was created in 1982. It is a global network in the field of human rights, economic, social, cultural, civil and political rights facilitating the identification, recording and free flow of public human rights information through more effective, appropriate and compatible methods and techniques of information handling.
Current human rights research is on techniques and tools for the monitoring of economic, social and cultural rights and documenting human rights violations.
HURIDOCS organises local and regional training workshops for NGOs and other professionals working in the field and an outreach and information programme. It also supports postgraduate internships at the HURIDOCS Secretariat.
HURIDOCS publishes the quarterly bulletin Huridocs News.
INSTITUTE OF ETHNOLOGY/SEMINAIRE
D’ETHNOLOGIE
Université de Fribourg
Rte des Bonnesfontaines 11, CH-1700 Fribourg
Tel.: ++41 3007841/42
Fax: ++41 3009664
E-mail: Christian.Giordano@unifr.ch
Website: www.unifr.ch/ethnologie
Contact: Prof. Christian Giordano
The Institute of Ethnology has a particular interest in studies on Eastern and South-Eastern Europe. Its research projects are: ‘Reprivatisation in Bulgaria’ (economic anthrology; rural sociology), ‘Rewriting History in Post-Socialist Countries’ (historical anthropology), ‘State/Nation Building and Identity Formation in the New States’ (ethnicity and nationalism studies). Researchers include Professor Christian Giordano, Elke-Nicole Kappus and Dobrinka Kostova. The Institute co-operates with scientists and researchers from Eastern and South-Eastern Europe.
The Institute co-edits the Anthropological Journal on European Cultures (AJEC). Since 1997 the Institute offers a specialised degree in Ethnology of Eastern and South-Eastern Europe.
INSTITUT DE L‘EUROPE ORIENTALE
Portes de Fribourg
CH-17763 Granges-Paccot
Tel.: ++41 26 300 79 76/75 04
Fax: ++41 26 300 96 97
Coordinator: Prof. Edward Swiderski
Formerly the Institute of East European Studies (founded by J.M. Bochenski in 1958), the present interfaculty Institute of Eastern and Central European Studies at the University of Fribourg offers an interdisciplinary course of study and research concentrated on the following disciplines: slavistics, political science, philosophy, law and economics. The Institute houses a substantial library with particular emphasis on Slavic languages and literatures as well as philosophy in Eastern Europe and Russia. Further expansion of library facilities is foreseen in the other disciplines. Research projects are pursued with partners in East and Central Europe and elsewhere. The journal Studies in Eastern European Thought and a monograph series Sovietica are edited by members of the Institute.
INSTITUT
INTERDISCIPLINAIRE D’ETHIQUE ET DES DROITS DE L’HOMME
Université de Fribourg
Rue Saint Michel 6, CH 1700 Fribourg
Tel.: ++41 26 3007343
Fax: ++41 26 4702075
E-mail: iiedh@unifr.ch
Website: www.unifr.ch/iiedh
Contact: Prof. Patrice Meyer-Bisch
INSTITUT UNIVERSITAIRE DE
HAUTES ETUDES INTERNATIONALES
132 rue de Lausanne, case postale 36, CH-1211, Geneva 21
Tel.: ++41 22 7311730
Fax: ++41 22 7384306
Contact: Prof. André Liebich
INTERNATIONAL
COMMISSION OF JURISTS – ICJ/CENTRE FOR THE INDEPENDENCE OF JUDGES AND LAWYERS –
CIJL
PO Box 160, 26 Chemin de Joinville, CH-1216 Cointrin, Geneva
Tel.: ++41 22 7884747
Fax: ++41 22 7884880
The ICJ is a non-governmental organisation devoted to promoting the understanding and observance of the Rule of Law and the legal protection of human rights throughout the world.
The ICJ publishes the ICJ Newsletter.
The CIJL promotes the independence of the judiciary and legal professions; formulates principles and practices to ensure their independence; and organises support in cases of harassment and persecution.
INTERNATIONAL SERVICE FOR HUMAN RIGHTS
1 rue de Varembé, PO Box 16, CH-1211 Geneva 20 CIC
Tel.: ++41 22 7335123
Fax: ++41 22 7330826
Director: Mr A.C. Zoller
The Centre is a non-governmental organisation, whose main activities are: providing information, analysis, relevant training, legal, political and practical advice and input by international human rights standards and procedures, for human rights defenders. The Centre runs specific projects, including issues such as minorities, women’s rights and protection of human rights defenders. The Centre also runs its Geneva Training Course for human rights defenders worldwide, but primarily from the South, and training workshops.
The Centre publishes the Human Rights Monitor, a quarterly review, together with HR-Documentation-DH, a technical report on UN bodies and documentation. The Centre also publishes a series of manuals and information packs for participants on their training courses.
ORGANISATION MONDIALE CONTRE LA
TORTURE – OMCT
37-39 rue de Vermont, Case Postale 119, CH-1211 Geneva 20 CIC
Tel.: ++41 22 7333140
Fax: ++41 22 7331051
Director: Mr E. Sottas
OMCT is a centre for the information and rapid dissemination of information relating to torture and other treatments such as summary executions and enforced or involuntary disappearances. Its current research projects are: ‘Human Rights and Development’, ‘Children’s Rights’ and ‘Violence against Women’.
SOCIOLOGICAL
INSTITUTE
University of Zurich
Ramistr. 69, 8001 Zurich
Tel.: ++41 1 2572140
Fax: ++41 1 2521054
From May 1993 to early 1995 the Institute was engaged in a research project called ‘Racism and xenophobia: Toward the semantic of the alien in the public debate’ (Kurt Imhof and Gaetano Romano). This research project was to be linked with another project, ‘The Alien in Switzerland. Typification and Attitudes’ (Hans Joachim Hoffman-Nowotny, Monique Dupuis, Kurt Imhof and Gaetano Romano). This project began in February 1994 and ended in late 1996.
SWISS FORUM FOR MIGRATION STUDIES
Rue des Terreaux 1 - PB 447, CH - 2001 Neuchatel
Tel.: ++41 32 7183920
Fax: ++41 32 7183921
E-mail: giovanni.casagrande@fsm.unine.ch
Website: www.unine.ch/fsm/
Director: Dr Andreas Wimmer
The Forum, established in 1995, is affiliated with the University of Neuchatel, and funded by a number of Swiss public and private institutions, including the Swiss Academy of Human and Social Sciences. Its research staff is drawn from several disciplines: ethnology (Andreas Wimmer), sociology (Denise Efionayi-Mädar and Josef Martin Niederberger), political sciences (Hans Mahnig and Gianni D’Amato), economics and geography (Etienne Piguet).
The Forum monitors research on migrations to Switzerland and carries out original research commissioned by private and public organisations.
UNITÉ
DE RECHERCHE DE FORMATION ET D’APPLICATIONS PEDAGOGIQUES SUR LES DROITS DE
L’HOMME
Faculté de Psycologie et des Sciences de l’Education,
Université de Geneve
Route de Drize 9, CH-1227 Carouge (GE)
Tel.: ++41 22 7057111
Fax: ++41 22 3428924
Director: L. Massarenti
The Institute carries out research on educational psychology in relation to human rights education and organises courses for primary and secondary school teachers. Recent research was on real and imagined attitudes towards human rights.