Easy Afternoons 12:30pm - 3:00pm

Listen Live

Search

Fribourg could remove right to exclude kids from sex-ed

Tuesday, 24 June 2025 06:30

Two politicians in canton Fribourg want to remove the right of parents to have their children exempted from sex education classes.

They fear possible abusers may wish to keep children uninformed.

The two point to a French study that shows as many as one in ten experienced sexual violence as a child – there is no equivalent study for Switzerland. 

Alexandre Berset, from the Green Party, says depriving children from sex education risks removing a safe space for children to discuss abuse. 

Two cantons in French speaking Switzerland, Geneva and Neuchatel, don’t allow parents to remove their kids from sex classes. 

Share

More from Bitesize News

  • Geneva could foot the G7 bill

    Geneva fears it will be left with the security bill from a G7 summit just across the border in Évian, according to 24 heures.

  • US NGO discovers Swiss child abuse cases

    Switzerland relies too heavily on an American NGO to detect child sexual abuse online, raising questions about the country's ability to protect children on its own.

  • French singer banned by Paleo

    The Paléo Festival in Nyon says it will no longer invite French singer Patrick Bruel, after a former volunteer accused him of inappropriate behaviour.

  • Cars going uninspected

    The cantons are struggling to keep up with mandatory vehicle inspections, leaving more than 550,000 checks overdue nationwide.

  • War may lead to rent rises

    Rents may rise again, says the bank Raiffeisen.

  • Not a heatwave, yet

    Summer has arrived, with temperatures climbing past 30 over the long weekend. Basel reached 31 and Sion hit 32.4, but MeteoSwiss, says this does not yet count as an official heatwave.

Follow WRS

Download our app

  • Available on the App Store
  • Available on Google Play