Human trafficking and migrant smuggling are among the most profitable crimes on earth. Find out how UN Office on Drugs & Crime 🇺🇳takes action to prevent impunity and to ensure accountability ➡️bit.ly/3FpK9mW Extract from #SwissPeaceSupporter no. 4-2021: bit.ly/3JbQ0hX

Rencontre inattendue au #Niger 🇳🇪 avec le Haut Commissaire pour les réfugiés Filippo Grandi & António Vitorino Amy Pope : C’est une belle occasion pour faire le point sur la migration et ses défis en compagnie de @PMaurerICRC.

🇨🇭's status as a neutral state remains unchanged.Neutrality does not imply to be indifferent with regard to violations of international law.Measures adopted by the Federal Council are in accordance with🇨🇭’s international law obligations as a neutral state.bit.ly/3plkqWU

I deplore any such acts and call on States to investigate this issue and address it immediately.  Neighboring States need to ensure that all those fleeing Ukraine, are granted unhindered access to territory, regardless of status and in accordance with International Law.

#ClimateChange and #displacement – learn how commitment to global frameworks can be translated into action Forced Migration Review ➡️ bit.ly/3LPhPgL

Switzerland 🇨🇭 and ICRC welcome 10 states to the inaugural meeting of the Global #Alliance4theMissing to improve the prevention of and response to missing persons in situations of conflict, violence, natural disasters and migration through joint diplomatic efforts.

Nobody chooses to become a refugee. 💙

#SexualViolence isn't a side effect of conflict - it's a tactic of war. Yesterday, I joined the #UNSC Debate on Ending #CRSV. Ending #CRSV should be a global priority. It’s time for leaders to hold perpetrators accountable & halt cycles of violence: nadia.la/NadiaMuradUNSC.

🆕Nigeria launches National Action Plan against human trafficking. The National Action Plan is the product of an extensive consultative process led by Thehorsesmouth with the support of the Government of Switzerland and other government agencies. Find out more ➡️bit.ly/3vtp3BJ

Access to protection for refugees is more than ever essential! Today at the 8th Swiss Asylum Symposium, Ambassador Geissbühler called for the commitment and cooperation of all actors in order to achieve lasting progress in the #protection of #refugees. #Asylsymposium

Today the Head of Swiss Peace and Human Rights co-chaired with SEM the annual high-level talks on migration with Nigeria Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Nigeria 🇳🇬 🇨🇭🤝🇳🇬 We have designed a Migration Partnership that is beneficial to our both countries and fosters a positive approach to #migration.

Fighting #HumanTrafficking and #MigrantSmuggling is a priority for Switzerland🇨🇭, at both global and regional levels. Swiss Peace and Human Rights supports UNODC for Middle East & North Africa

Today at the #HRC50, 🇨🇭Switzerland recalled that the #HumanRights of migrants should be protected at #borders & thanked the @UNSR_Migration for his presentation. 🗒️bit.ly/3nfO8Lq

Glad to be in #Bern for consultations with Swiss MFA & Health counterparts on cooperation with #Switzerland in the areas of countering transnational #organizedcrime, human #trafficking, smuggling of migrants & future of the UN Office on Drugs & Crime Liaison and Partnership office in #Geneva.

On the International #DayoftheDisappeared, 🇨🇭 and the #Alliance4theMissing stands with the families of #MissingPersons around the 🌍 We are committed to work together to increase 📈 our diplomatic engagement, prevent people from going missing and respond to families' needs.

Today we celebrate the #InternationalDayofDemocracy! This is how Swiss Peace and Human Rights 🇨🇭 promotes #democracy abroad 👇📽️

Drones, #data, #AI, electronic monitoring, ...: borders are also undergoing an accelerated digitalization. What impact on #HumanRights? ➡️Follow this UN Human Rights Council #HRC51 side event with Jürg Lauber to learn more. 📅27 Sep 13:30 CET zoom.us/j/92610547125

Exploring opportunities to ensure a #HumanRights-based approach while using new #AI #technologies to collect #data in border governance 👉today at a UN Human Rights Council side event organized by Swiss Peace and Human Rights, UN Human Rights and University of Essex.

The 🌎 dialogue on #Migration must be based on accurate evidence. Mixed Migration Centre sharpens our collective understanding with facts and figures in its 2022 #MixedMigrationreview. Swiss Peace and Human Rights supports #MMC’s commitment to provide valuable insights and evidence on migration!

Let’s remember on #MigrantsDay that the families of the missing have rights which states must uphold. Missing migrants is now integrated in the #CadizActionPlan of Processus de Rabat thanks to the work of 🇨🇭 Swiss Peace and Human Rights and its partners ICRC IOM - UN Migration 🇺🇳 sem.admin.ch/sem/en/home/se…