International Adoption

• Irregular adoptions

International Maintenance Matters

• Legal basis
• Application documents and forms
• Hague Maintenance Convention and Protocol of 2007

International child abduction - exercise of rights of access

• Legal basis
• Initiation of proceedings for return or for the protection of rights of access
• Information on proceedings abroad
• Contact Form

International Protection of Children

• 1996 Hague Convention
• Intercountry child placement
• Other Legal Basis
• Tasks of the Confederation
• Tasks of the Cantons
• Contact Form

International Protection of Adults

• Hague Convention
• Legal Basis
• Tasks of the Confederation
• Tasks of the Cantons
• Contact Form

Assistance to victims

Victims of compulsory social measures

• Political inquiry
• Legal basis
• Federal solidarity contribution
• Cantonal contact points and archives
• Funding for self-help projects
• Other support measures
• Academic inquiry
• Education and awareness-raising
• Funding for projects to raise awareness

Bills still under discussion

• Hague Maintenance Convention and Protocol of 2007
• International adoptions

Bills adopted

• Information on the ban on covering the face in Switzerland
• Revision of guardianship legislation
• Euthanasia
• Minarets
• Convention on Human Rights and Biomedicine
• Genetic Testing of Humans
• Registered Partnerships
• The status of animals
• Abortion
• Reproductive medicine