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• Rebuilding Haiti.

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Following January's horrific earthquake in Haiti, Swiss organisations rushed to provide emergency relief. Many non-government...

• Swiss News
• Num. 2010, Février 2010

• Hot Docs From Up North

Documentary films have in recent years achieved unprecedented glory and success in the United States. Michael Moore's "Fahrenheit 9/11" not only was named best picture at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival, but also made big bucks at the box office. "Bowling for Columbine" attracted a large audience to theatres nationwide, and crystallized a lively debate about violence in schools. Similarly, the documentary "Super Size Me" was yet another U.S. documentary that became a global hit: That orgy of on-screen gluttony even gave the world's largest fast-food chain, McDonalds, a severe case of PR-indigestion. In neighbouring Denmark, [Karolina Lidin] observes, new documentaries tend to have an intellectual and poetic edge. This is probably due partly to the influence of demon director Lars von Trie...

... impossible conditions, which takes Leth to Haiti, India, and Brazil. The aim is to make the directo...

• Nordic Reach
• Vol. XVIII Num. 15, Novembre 2005
• News

• Drinking our waste: for many of our planet's poorest people, drinking water contaminated by human waste is a daily reality, causing widespread illness and death. Swiss aid and development cooperative, Helvetas, is addressing the lack of this most basic of necessities in Africa, Asia and Latin America.

.... Haiti . Since 1983, Helvetas has also given support in H...

• Swiss News
• Num. 2010, Février 2010

• Messaggio concernente la legge federale sulla restituzione dei valori patrimoniali di provenienza illecita di persone politicamente esposte (Legge sulla restituzione degli averi di provenienza illecita, LRAI)

..., 2007; http://siteresources.worldbank.org/NEWS/Resources/Star-rep-full.pdf (in inglese) 5 L'OCD..., nonché nel 2002 dell'ex Presidente haitiano Duvalier. . Il Codice penale (CP) 14 contempla u...

• Foglio Federale num. 21, 1 juin 2010
• Seccion Unica

• International Agricultural Trade Liberalisation and Food Security: Risks Associated with a Fully Liberalised Global Marketplace

...Mauritania, Senegal, and Haiti, for example, experienced violent protests related... food prices (Bridges Weekly Trade News Digest 2008.) No real progress in restricting the ...

• Aussenwirtschaft; Zeitschrift für internationale Wirtshaftsbeziehungen
• Vol. 64 Num. 2, Juin 2009

• 10 questions with Bekele Geleta.

...The Haiti earthquake and Japan tsunami all happened during t...

• Swiss News
• Num. 2012, Février 2012

• Nobody onboard: while manned aircraft, helicopters and medium-to-large unmanned air vehicles can provide information on enemy activities in large open areas they are of lesser use to detect activities within the streets of a city. Best is to be able to fly within the streets.

... of Defense for use in Afghanistan, Haiti and Iraq. Earlier this year the Department of Defe...

• Armada International
• Vol. 31 Num. 4, Août 2007

• Voodoo revealed: it's difficult to get a handle on voodoo, as its sensationalised dark side so frequently intervenes. Marianne Lehmann, a Swiss living in Haiti, sheds light on the subject through her collection of voodoo objects, now on display in Geneva.

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] It all began rather unexpectedly for Marianne Lehmann, a Swiss woman who has lived in Port-au-Prince for 50 years. "About 2...

• Swiss News
• Num. 2008, Avril 2008

• Trade Development in Action

... [least developed countries] - Burundi and Haiti. But this fruit would not have germinated without ...

• International Trade Forum
• Num. 2/2006, Avril 2006

• Mowag.

... the Brazilian Marines in a UN mission to Haiti. All of the Piranha IIICs are to be delivered duri...

• Armada International
• Vol. 31 Num. 2, Avril 2007