Back in Switzerland, she was deputy head of the human rights section from 1993 to 1997. During this time, she dealt with the establishment of the human rights dialogue with the People's Republic of China, lectured and published on the UN Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) and attended the 1995 World Conference on Women in Beijing as a member of the Swiss delegation. Afterwards, she was embassy counselor at the embassy in Dublin, sharing employment with her husband. From 2001 to 2003, she was also in employment with her husband, in the DFA head of the section on human rights policy, then employee of the department head Human Security.