UPR : suicide prevention and inactivity of the Swiss Government

The Federal government argues that it is not in the position to take action, since it lacks the constitutional competence to move forward in the ambit of suicide prevention.

This opinion is obviously not unanimous . Moreover the share of competence in the Swiss federal system can be deeply discussed, mainly because of the encouraging role the Confederation can take up with the cantons.
In fact, at present the Confederation already holds some degree of competence in health related issues, such as mental health and prevention. Additionally, an enlargement of these activities does not require a modification of the constitutional competence.

For the Universal Periodic Review of the Human Rights Council of the United Nations, STOP SUICIDE has presented a report on this specific problem.

• read the report in english (pdf, 265 Ko)