Micheline Anne-Marie Calmy-Rey is a Swiss politician who served as a Member of the Swiss Federal Council from 2003 to 2011. A member of the Social Democratic Party (SP/PS), she was the head of the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs during her tenure as a Federal Councillor. She was President of the Swiss Confederation twice, in 2007 and 2011.
The Canton of Geneva, officially the Republic and Canton of Geneva, is one of the 26 cantons of the Swiss Confederation. It is composed of forty-five municipalities, and the seat of the government and parliament is in the City of Geneva.
The Geneva Citizens' Movement, abbreviated to MCG, is a right-wing populist political party in the Canton of Geneva, Switzerland. On its own initiative, it started, and is a part of, the wider Romandy Citizens' Movement, abbreviated to MCR.
Éric Stauffer is a Swiss politician from Homberg. He chaired the Genevan Citizens Movement from 2008 to 2012.
The Geneva trolleybus system forms part of the public transport network in Geneva, Switzerland. It is the second largest trolleybus system in Switzerland, after the Lausanne system.
The Compagnie de 1602 is an historic and patriotic association in Geneva who organize the official commemoration of the Escalade. This association was established on March 31, 1926.
Henri Fazy was a Swiss politician and historian. As professor of Swiss history, he wrote much on the history of Geneva.
Emma Kammacher was a Swiss human rights lawyer, activist and politician. She was a member of the Social Democratic Party of Switzerland and served as a member of the Grand Council of Geneva. In 1965 she became the first woman to serve as president of a Swiss cantonal council.
Amélia Christinat was a Swiss politician and women's rights activist. She sat in the National Council from 1978 to 1987 as the first female National Councillor from the canton of Geneva.
Lorena Parini is a Swiss political scientist and gender studies scholar. She is a professor at the University of Geneva. She studies gender and politics, political discrimination against LGBT people, and the role and construction of social identities.
Guy-Olivier Segond was a Swiss politician.
Jacqueline Berenstein-Wavre was a Swiss politician who spent her political career in Geneva. She fought for women's rights in the workplace.
Lynn Bertholet is a transgender Swiss woman, bank executive and photomodel. She is also co-founder and chairperson of charity ÉPICÈNE, a volunteer public utility body which aims to welcome and support anyone facing transidentity issues.
InterAction is a Swiss organization for intersex people, parents, friends and allies to educate, provide peer support and address human rights issues.
Fabienne Fischer, born in 1961 in Zambia, is a lawyer and Swiss politician, a member of the Green Party of Switzerland, elected at the Council of State by-elections for the canton of Geneva on 21 March 2021. In charge of the Department of Economy and Employment, she loses her seat at the next election in 2023 to Social-Democratic candidate Carol-Anne Kast.
Lucien Tronchet (1902–1982) was a Swiss anarcho-syndicalist activist. An emblematic figure of trade unionism in Geneva, he took action alongside Italian anti-fascist refugees and Spanish libertarians during the Spanish Civil War. A convinced antimilitarist, he spent two times, in 1920 and 1940, in prison for "refusing to serve" in the Swiss Army.
Léonore Porchet, is a Swiss politician. A member of the Green Party of Switzerland, Porchet has represented Vaud canton in the National Council since the 2019 Swiss federal election.
Benoît Genecand was a Swiss politician. A member of FDP.The Liberals (PLR), he served on the National Council of Switzerland from 2015 to 2019 and the Grand Council of Geneva from 2013 to 2015.
Jacques-André Mallet ; also Mallet-Favre; 23 September 1740 – 31 January 1790) was a Genevan mathematician and astronomer.
Yves Robert Nidegger is a Swiss attorney and politician who formerly served as a member of the National Council (Switzerland) for the Swiss People's Party between 2007 and 2023 being succeeded by Thomas Bläsi. Previously, he was a member of the Grand Council of Geneva from 2005 to 2009, respectively congressional vice president of the Swiss People's Party Geneva from 2004 to 2006 and 2009 to 2010.
