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Switzerland
This National Site contains leading decisions from the Asylum Appeals Commission of Switzerland.
Walter Kälin
Walter Kälin received his Doctor of Law from the University of Bern and his LL.M. from Harvard Law School. Kälin has been a professor of international and constitutional law at the University of Bern since 1985. He is also a former Dean of the Faculty and Head of the Legal Department. He has acted as a consultant for numerous agencies and organizations - including the Swiss development agency, SDC, UNHCR, UNHCHR, UNDP, and others - on matters of decentralization, human rights, and refugee law. In 1991-1992, Kälin served as the Special Rapporteur of the Commission on Human Rights on the situation of human rights in Kuwait under Iraqi Occupation. He was also a member of the Swiss government's Steering Committee for "the preparation of constitutional reform" and he was Chairman for the preparation of the reform of the judiciary (1995–1996). From 2003 to 2008, Kälin was a member of the Human Rights Committee of the United Nations. Since 2004, Kälin has served as the Representative of the United Nations' Secretary-General on the Human Rights of Internally Displaced Persons.
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Switzerland's Most Recent Decision
The most recent decision added to the Switzerland site is S. X. v Swiss Federal Office of Refugees,
a decision rendered in Switzerland by the Asylum Appeals Commission on Wednesday, January 28, 2004, involving an applicant from Somalia.
A brief summary of the facts of the case is: A mother who fled from Somalia with her children after being ill-treated and raped by armed men in the absence of her husband from home, and whose children were subjected to severe physical harm as well, refuses to return for fear that her three daughters will be subjected by relatives to female genital mutilation.
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