After the new criminal law regarding sexual matters came into power in 1992, there were no longer laws in Switzerland explicitly discriminating gays and lesbians. With the the creation of federal law for registered partnerships between same-sex people the most important legal vacuum has been filled. However, excluding registered partners from adopting and methods of medically assisted procreation has created an explicit new discrimination.

Article 8 of the Swiss Federal Constitution prohibits discrimination based on lifestyle choices (which means, in this case, «sexual orientation») in the eye of the legislature (but without having dared to put in with explicit words in the Constitution). However, there is no way of implementing the law because it lacks an effective instrument to prevent discrimination based on sexual orientation or to implement the equal treatment.

A law against discrimination is therefore one of the main aims of the work of PINK CROSS

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1. Abstract
2. Prohibition of discrimination
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