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Switzerland and Kuwait agree to strengthen development cooperation
29.08.2016
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Press release
EDA
Federal Councillor Didier Burkhalter and Sheikh Sabah Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah, First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs of Kuwait, decided during foreign policy consultations on 29 August 2016 in Bern to work more closely together on development cooperation. Sheikh Al-Hamad Al-Sabah's working visit took place to mark 50 years of bilateral relations between Switzerland and Kuwait.
Colombia: Switzerland congratulates the government and the FARC on the final peace agreement
25.08.2016
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Press release
EDA
Switzerland congratulates the government and the FARC on yesterday's conclusion of the final peace agreement, which is a major step forward towards building lasting peace in Colombia.
Didier Burkhalter takes part in the filming of a documentary on child soldiers
24.08.2016
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Artículo
EDA
Bern, 24 August 2016 – The head of the FDFA takes part in the filming of a documentary on child soldiers. Switzerland reaffirms its commitment to the protection of children recruited into armed groups in conflicts.
Cuerno de África: dos trabajadores humanitarios de la COSUDE hablan sobre su trabajo
19.08.2016
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Artículo
DEZA
La comunidad internacional celebra este 19 de agosto el Día Mundial de la Asistencia Humanitaria. En dicha ocasión, la COSUDE rinde homenaje a sus trabajadores humanitarios. Natacha Pugin y Abdi Kunow trabajan cotidianamente al servicio de la ayuda alimentaria en el Cuerno de África.
Por un cine independiente en Myanmar
04.08.2016
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Artículo
DEZA
El realizador Maung Okkar y la productora May Zin Myo, ambos birmanos, participan por primera vez en la sección Open Doors del festival de Locarno, apoyado por la COSUDE. Tendrá la suerte de poder encontrar a profesionales internacionales del sector y contribuir al desarrollo del cine contemporáneo en Myanmar, un país en plena transición democrática.
Switzerland responds to new humanitarian needs in South Sudan
27.07.2016
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Press release
EDA
In South Sudan thousands of people have fled the recent hostilities between rival political factions. These new outbreaks of violence have compounded the already considerable humanitarian needs in the country. Switzerland has decided to provide an additional CHF 2 million to alleviate the suffering of the local population.
Switzerland steps up its humanitarian commitment to the people fleeing the fighting in Iraq
20.07.2016
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Press release
EDA
A conference of donor countries was held today in Washington to mobilise funds to ensure better humanitarian support for the tens of thousands of internally displaced persons fleeing the fighting that has been ravaging Iraq since May. Switzerland has decided to allocate an additional CHF 1 million, increasing its commitment to CHF 10 million for 2016.
Switzerland presents initial steps towards the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development
19.07.2016
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Press release
EDA
New York, 19 July 2016: at the High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development (HLPF) at the United Nations in New York, Manuel Sager, the director-general of the Swiss Agency for Development Cooperation (SDC), presented Switzerland's initial steps towards the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
Switzerland donates ambulances to Syria's suffering population
18.07.2016
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Press release
EDA
The Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) has delivered twelve new ambulances to the Syrian Arab Red Crescent (SARC). A Swiss delegation accompanied the delivery in the Syrian capital Damascus. The ambulances are urgently needed in Syria because the country's health system has too few ambulances to cope with the enormous number of victims caused by the war, including attacks against hospitals.
«Mediante nuestra labor sobre el terreno queremos abrir nuevas perspectivas»
14.07.2016
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Artículo
DEZA
Desde hace veinte años, Suiza presta apoyo a Bosnia y Herzegovina para fortalecer la democracia, el Estado de derecho y la economía de mercado. Elisabeth von Capeller, vicedirectora de la COSUDE y jefa de la Cooperación con Europa del Este, repasa la trayectoria de cooperación y habla de las perspectivas y los desafíos actuales.
Protecting human life and contributing to peace and security – federal government sets out its Humanitarian Demining Strategy 2016–2019
11.07.2016
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Press release
EDA
Some 50 million stockpiled anti-personnel mines and 2 million cluster munitions have been destroyed over the past 20 years. People are nevertheless still being killed by landmines, cluster munitions and other explosive remnants of war on a daily basis despite international efforts in which Switzerland also plays an active role. The federal government has therefore laid down guidelines on its humanitarian demining engagement for the period 2016–19 and will continue to provide experts for UN demining programmes, support demining projects in the countries concerned and maintain its strategic partnership with the Geneva International Centre for Humanitarian Demining.
Cinco fotógrafos capturan en imágenes la migración en toda su diversidad
29.06.2016
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Artículo
DEZA
Una imagen vale más que mil palabras. La COSUDE pidió a aquellos que viven la migración que relatasen en imágenes cuán beneficiosa es. Más de 250 personas de los cuatro rincones del planeta han participado en el concurso mundial de fotografía "La otra cara de la migración". Los galardonados cuentan las historias de vida que se esconden tras dichas imágenes extraordinarias.