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Children’s rights in politics: isolated improvements achieved

18 December 2024
The Ombuds Office Children’s Rights Switzerland aims to contribute its extensive knowledge to political discourse in order to strengthen children’s rights and ensure a child-friendly justice system. To this end, in 2024 it participated in numerous bills submitted for consultation, amongst other activities. In the coming year, the political developments concerning the planned enshrining of a non-violent upbringing in the Swiss Civil Code (CC) as well as the next steps taken by the Federal Council regarding the Noser motion for a public ombuds office for children’s rights will be particularly decisive.
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Video discussion: Children’s rights in focus – new findings on the impact of the Ombuds Office

17 December 2024

How does the Ombuds Office Children’s Rights Switzerland contribute to the protection and well-being of children and young people? What added value does its work generate? The meticulous new impact analysis carried out by INTERFACE Politikstudien in recent months provides answers to these questions. 

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Impact analysis on the Ombuds Office Children’s Rights Switzerland underlines comprehensive benefit for children, families and wider society

12 December 2024

Launched in 2021, the Ombuds Office Children’s Rights Switzerland supports children and adolescents by providing low-threshold, child-friendly legal advice and intermediary services in complex proceedings. In doing so, it helps young people protect and uphold their rights. For the first time, a new impact analysis by Interface Politikstudien Forschung Beratung, commissioned by the Ombuds Office, illustrates the significant positive effect this work has on children, those in their immediate circle and society as a whole.

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«Family is not always a private matter»

18 December 2023
Children’s rights are being violated? Even in a democratic, progressive country governed by the rule of law like Switzerland? We truly wish that it wasn’t the case. Yet attempts to consistently implement children’s rights are often frustrated by misguided notions of protection on the part of the individuals and authorities responsible for child welfare. Our Managing Director Irène Inderbitzin spoke to ElternMagazin Fritz+Fränzi, the Swiss magazine for parents, about the concerns that children continue to report to us at the national Ombuds Office for Children’s Rights. Among other things, Irène sheds light on how we offer advice and consultation, the tasks that the Ombuds Office performs and the root causes of these types of violations of children’s rights.