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Parliament closes painful chapter on foster care

Parliament has approved a CHF300 million ($308 million) financial compensation scheme for victims of a foster care system that included child labour, sexual abuse and forced sterilisations. It is the latest stage of a long and controversial chapter of Switzerland’s social history. “Today is a historical day. The victims have had to wait for decades for this moment,” said Guido Fluri, the main promoter of financial compensation for the victims of the harsh foster system. He and some of his fellow activists had tears in their eyes when they faced the cameras in the parliament lobby on Thursday. A few minutes earlier, the Senate overwhelmingly approved a plan by the government for financial compensation of up to CHF25,000 for each of the estimated 12,000-15,000 people who suffered physical and mental abuse under a strict care policy in force until 1981. Thursday’s decision confirms a similar move by the other parliamentary chamber, the House of Representatives in April. “It is a ....

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Lawmakers approve reparations for child victims

Following an emotional two-day debate, the House of Representatives has approved a government counterproposal to the “Reparation Initiative” – a people’s initiative which would recognise and compensate victims of Swiss foster care and child labour policies up until 1981. The counterproposal now moves on to the Senate. Whereas the initiative calls for the creation of a CHF500 million ($514 million) reparation fund, the government counterproposal would create a fund of CHF300 million to be distributed to an estimated 12,000 to 15,000 victims, with each person receiving a maximum of CHF25,000. The counterproposal was seen as the better alternative by a majority of members of the House, with 143 voting in favour and 26 against, with 13 abstentions. The initiator of the Reparation Initiative, multimillionaire Guido Fluri, said he was in principle willing to withdraw his initiative, depending on the results of the vote in the House and the Senate. He told swissinfo: “I couldn’t a ....

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