Party calls for more action over violence on women

The women’s branch of a Swiss political party has suggested a five-point plan, including a “no means no” information campaign, following two recent serious attacks on women. In one of the attacks against a group of five women outside a Geneva nightclub, one woman ended up in a coma. The brutality of this incident is shocking, said Martine Docourt, the co-president of the women’s branch of the leftwing Social Democratic Party, which is Switzerland’s second largest party. This is why measures are needed. Violence is still a daily reality in Switzerland in 2018, she said. “And there is one consistency: it’s not the social background, or origin, it’s the sex [of the perpetrator]. And that’s male,” Docourt said at a press conference in Bern on Friday. She and her colleagues however pointed out that this affected all men, not just those with a migration background. There has been speculation in the media over the origin of the men involved in the Geneva attack. On Tuesday, the ...