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• Swiss said to be 'cleansed' as Holocaust victims are repaid.

It has been ten years since UBS and Credit Suisse agreed to pay back SFr 1.33 billion in assets to Holocaust victims or their descendents, and now all...

• Swiss News
• Num. 2008, Avril 2008

• Tepid response for flood victims.

The Swiss are proving largely indifferent to the human cost of the devastating floods which have ravaged central Europe. Solidarity Chain, the fundr...

• Swiss News
• Num. 2002, Juin 2002

• Arrêt nº 9C 495/2009 de IIe Cour de Droit Social, 26 novembre 2009

Regeste Art. 24 Flüchtlingskonvention; Art. 1 Abs. 1 FlüB in Verbindung mit Art. 6 Abs. 2 und Art. 36 Abs. 1 IVG (in der bis 31. Dezember 2007 gültig gewesenen Fassung) sowie Art. 18 Abs. 3 AHVG in Verbindung mit Art. 6 RV-AHV. Die von einem türkischen Asylbewerber von 1990 bis 1994 geleisteten AHV/IV/EO-Beiträge wurden infolge Rückkehr ins Heimatland (nach Abweisung des Asylgesuchs) gemäss Art. 10a des schweizerisch-türkischen Sozialversicherungsabkommens an die türkische Sozialversicherung überwiesen. Keine Anrechnung der geleisteten Beiträge an die Mindestbeitragszeit gemäss Art. 36 Abs. 1 IVG nach erneuter Einreise in die Schweiz als nunmehr Invalider (1999) und Anerkennung als Flüchtling (2002), namentlich auch nicht unter dem Blickwinkel des - erst ab Erwerb des Flüchtlingsstatus...

... die Arbeitsgesetzgebung sowie auf die "victims of industrial accidents" vorgesehen gewesen, in Ar...

• War victims list.

Less than a week after she made the announcement, Swiss Foreign Minister, Micheline Calmy-Rey, abandoned plans to publish a list of civilian victims o...

• Swiss News
• Num. 2003, Juin 2003

• Tracing And Freezing Assets In Aid Of Litigation

...insurance companies, the claim of the victims was for restitution. of the principal with all the...

• Mondaq Business Briefing
• Switzerland Law Articles in English

• Apartheid victims sue banks.

Four apartheid victims have filed suit against Citigroup, UBS and Credit Suisse, alleging the banks provided money to help support the South African a...

• Swiss News
• Num. 2002, Juin 2002

• Protecting victims of war: the rise of terrorism has not made life easier for the International Committee of the Red Cross. The war in Iraq, coupled with the detention of prisoners in Guantanamo Bay and Abu Ghraib, have been a focus of media interest. The polarisation between the Eastern and the Western World creates an atmosphere of tension that the ICRC can do without.

ICRC's president Jakob Kellenberger spoke to Swiss News' Renske Heddema in his office in Geneva. Swiss News: On your recent visit to the US, you met...

• Swiss News
• Num. 2005, Janvier 2005

• Making a difference: vaud-based well-being promoter Liz Rollinson-Phillips seeks to change the concept of health from 'absence of illness' to 'quality living in mind-body-spirit harmony' that helps prevent ill health as it empowers the sick not to perceive themselves as victims.

Nothing particular in her youth pointed the way to Liz Rollinson's vocation. True, she was drawn to sports--as a kid she listed bronco rider and gym t...

• Swiss News
• Num. 2004, Mai 2004

• Jo Nesbo: The Leopard.

... police is that the puncture wounds to the victims' faces have been caused from the inside of their m...

• Swiss News
• Num. 2011, Janvier 2011

• Indian Exports at Crossroads: Why the European Community Is Subjecting Indian Goods to Countervailing Duties

The European Community represents one of the primary destinations for Indian goods, accounting for one fifth of Indian exports. Indian goods have been at the receiving end of a significant majority of anti subsidy investigations initiated by the European Commission. Such goods have been alleged to be benefiting from subsidies inconsistent with Council Regulation 2026/97 which forms the legal basis for anti subsidy investigations initiated by the Commission. The paper puts forth an analysis of India's export incentive schemes including old schemes already subjected to challenge as well as new schemes vulnerable to challenge in future investigations with regard to the Council Regulation 2026/97 and the WTO Agreement on Subsidies and Countervailing Measures.

... the state which may suffer; the immediate victims are individual companies in anti subsidy investiga...

• Aussenwirtschaft; Zeitschrift für internationale Wirtshaftsbeziehungen
• Vol. 62 Num. 4, Décembre 2007