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Switzerland: referendum

01 September 1994

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At the end of September Swiss voters approved a government proposal making racial discrimination, racist propaganda and denial of the Nazi Holocaust illegal. The result was 54.6% in favour and 45.4% against. The referendum was forced by rightwing and racist groups collecting the 50,000 signatures needed to trigger the vote after the parliament voted in June 1993 to adopt the UN Convention on Racial Discrimination.

International Herald Tribune 26.9.94.

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