Article: A mandate for change: in March 2007, Doudou Diene, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Racism issued a controversial report alleging that Switzerland suffers from "disturbing" patterns of both racism and xenophobia. Swiss News recently caught up with the busy Diene for an update on Switzerland's progress more than one year on.(POLITICS)(Cover story)

Article: Swiss organisations answer the call: after hearing the United ...
Swiss News;  October 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... Rapporteur on Racism, Mr. Doudou Diene released his Report ... which noted that Switzerland was one of the few ... of human rights in Switzerland, including the Commission ... important to note that Switzerland doesn't really have ...

United Nations experts on racism and minority issues Doudou ...
Getty Images;  October 31, 2007 ;     274 words ... ... 31-2007 United Nations experts on racism and minority issues Doudou Diene ... Full Size JPG (2317 KB) United Nations experts on racism and minority issues Doudou Diene (C) and Gay McDougall (R), offer a press conference in Santo ...

Article: Switzerland: Europe's heart of darkness? ...
Belfast Telegraph;  September 7, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... proposal will be a test case not just for Switzerland but for the whole of Europe, where ... shall we say, ambivalent. A quarter of Switzerland's workers - one in four, like the ... the UN special rapporteur on racism, Doudou Diene, warned earlier this year that a ...

SWITZERLAND HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL
AP Images;  March 27, 2007 ;     258 words ...Doudou Diene, Special Rapporteur on ... United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, Tuesday, March 27 ... his report on racism in Switzerland after he had been on a ... acts and expressions in Switzerland. (AP Photo/Keystone ...

SWITZERLAND UN RACISM LAUSANNE
AP Images;  March 17, 2008 ;     242 words ...Doudou Diene of Senegal, special rapporteur for the United Nations Commission on ... journalists after meeting anti-racist associations, in Lausanne, Switzerland, Monday, March 17, 2008. (AP Photo/Keystone/Laurent Gillieron ...

SWITZERLAND UN RACISM
AP Images;  March 17, 2008 ;     240 words ...Doudou Diene of Senegal, special rapporteur for the United Nations Commission on ... journalists after meeting anti-racist associations, in Lausanne, Switzerland, Monday, March 17, 2008. (AP Photo/Keystone/Laurent Gillieron ...

Article: Swiss Fury at Foreigners Boiling Over; Grisly Attack on African ...
The Washington Post;  October 9, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... traditional identities. Across Switzerland, anti-foreigner and anti ... Amnesty International and Switzerland's own Federal Commission ... gas to break up the melee. Doudou Diene, the U.N. special fact ... train stations and streets of Switzerland. "We have addressed the ...