Country Switzerland
Year 2022
Type of Measure Services > Mapping of all services
Form of Violence Violence against women and girls

Brief Description


The Committee of the Conference of Cantonal Directors of Social Affairs, in cooperation with cantonal experts from both the beneficiaries (victim support, social affairs) and the service providers (women's shelters), drew up a catalogue of services provided by women's shelters. The catalogue defines what is meant by the "core services of women's shelters". The catalogue was first issued in 2016, and recently updated in March 2022.

Source of Information

Switzerland's submission for National Review for Implementation of the Beijing Platform for Action, Beijing+25, 2019, p.16.

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