Reports and policy-oriented research

• Preparation and editing of various strategic and operational guidelines for the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation on governance and human rights (human rights 1997 and 2005, the rule of law 1998/2008, decentralisation 2000 and 2009, conflict prevention 2002)
• Swiss Federal Department of Home Affairs and the Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs of Switzerland for the edition of the first, second and third reports of Switzerland to the UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW), (1999-2001, 2005-2008);
  • Power sharing: The Swiss experience (for Political Division IV, Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs, 2008)
  • Federalism and Peace Mediation, Peace Mediation Essentials (in cooperation with Peace Mediation Support Project (Swisspeace and ETH), 2008)
  • The draft constitution of Bolivia (for Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation 2008)
  • Women’s rights and human rights in Switzerland, mandated by the Federal Commission on Women’s Issues of Switzerland (2006/7)
  • Report on National Human Rights Institutions for the Political Division IV of the Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs, 2003
• The discrimination against gypsies in Switzerland, particularly on ILO convention No. 169 on indigenous and tribal peoples and its possible impact on Switzerland, mandated by the Swiss Federal Department of Economics, State Secretariat for Economic Affairs seco (2002), and on possible measures to combat discrimination against gypsies, mandated by the Swiss Federal Department of Home Affairs (2004).