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Switzerland and Kuwait agree to strengthen development cooperation

29.08.2016 — 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.





Por un cine independiente en Myanmar

04.08.2016 — 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

Civilian population of South Sudan

27.07.2016 — 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

This new Swiss contribution will help strengthen protection activities and access to drinking water for displaced civilians in central Iraq.

20.07.2016 — 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 donates ambulances to Syria's suffering population

Switzerland is financing twelve new ambulances to improve the situation of people suffering from the consequences of the war in Syria. © FDFA

18.07.2016 — 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 — 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

A group of women returning from work on the land pass a sign at the edge of a field warning ‘danger mines’.

11.07.2016 — 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

Cinco fotografías que muestran los aspectos positivos de la migración ganaron el concurso de la COSUDE. © COSUDE

29.06.2016 — 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.

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