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Swiss student Irene Stüssi is one of the 44 people taking part in the first special parliamentary session for people with disabilities in Switzerland.
4 min
Topics include damage assessments, water and electricity supply systems, and rebuilding damaged buildings and infrastructure.
4 min
“When you like something, you want it to be clean” – whether it’s your car, husband, home or country.
27 min
“Keep calm and carry on” could well be the Swiss national motto.
27 min
How do you make a Swiss woman laugh? Ask her whether Swiss men are good lovers, apparently.
26 min
2022 was a colourful, challenging year for SWI swissinfo.ch. Here's a taste of some of the reports we produced, and products we launched.
3 min
How did the small mountainous country become one of the wealthiest in the world? This SRF documentary examines some of the possible factors.
52 min
On September 27, 2001, a gunman carried out a deadly attack on the Zug regional parliament, shooting dead 14 politicians before killing himself.
100 min
A film looking at the Swissair flight 111 crash off Nova Scotia, the worst accident in Swiss civil aviation history.
95 min
Women are still a minority in peacekeeping operations. The Swiss armed forces’ contingent in Kosovo shows just how important their role can be.
3 min
Swiss voters narrowly accepted a reform of the pension system on Sunday September 25.
2 min
Lucerne tried three times to become the Swiss capital. It nonetheless played a decisive role in the birth of Swiss democracy.
3 min
Geneva is a pioneer for giving people with severe mental or physical disabilities the right to vote.
4 min
Could harvesting invasive species be a solution? Our reporter went Asian clam digging and cooked up her catch.
2 min
Readers' views on a compulsory service for women and men largely reflect the majority opinion on the subject in Switzerland.
2 min
The first woman in Switzerland ever to be elected to a cantonal parliament was Raymonde Schweizer.
3 min
Galina Timchenko, the Russian-Ukrainian editor-in-chief of meduza.io, still writes about what Russian media can no longer publish due to censorship.
3 min
The dizzying south face of Poncione d’Alnasca, a mountain in southern Switzerland, attracts the best climbers in the world.
23 min
Some 60% of Swiss voters have accepted a reform to the transplantation law aiming to boost organ donation rates.
2 min
What are Swiss prisons really like on the inside? SWI swissinfo.ch tests the new Zurich West prison.
3 min