International Adoption

  • Illegal 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
  • Solidarity contribution
  • Support measures
  • Academic inquiry
  • Valorisation
  • Cantonal contact points and archives

Bills still under discussion

  • Hague Maintenance Convention and Protocol of 2007
  • International adoptions
  • Bills adopted