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Critical reports

Part of a series of the Human Rights Programme of the CETIM.

This series of critical reports deals with what is at stake concerning certain debates within the UN instances on human rights in order to inform and train all those engaged in the struggle for the respect and the implementation of their human rights.

It also hopes to provide them a better knowledge of the documents (conventions, treaties, declarations, etc.) and existing official instruments.

The Human Rights Program of the CETIM is dedicated to the defence and promotion of all human rights, a commitment based on the principle that human rights are totally inseparable and indivisible. Within that commitment, however, the CETIM has a particular focus on economic, social and cultural rights and the right to development, still much neglected in our times when not denied outright. Its objective includes combating the impunity accompanying the numerous violations of these rights and helping the communities, social groups and movements victimized by these violations to be heard and to obtain redress.

     
REPORTS ALREADY PUBLISHED (PDF version)
     
2010
International, Regional, Subregional and Bilateral Free Trade Agreements     NEW !
     
2009
The Right to Water
The Rights of Peasants
Transboundary Transfers of Toxic Wastes and their Effect on Human Rights
     
2008
The Global Food Crisis and the Right to Food
  The Optional  Protocol to the ICESCR
  The Human Rights Council and its Mechanisms
     

INTERNATIONAL, REGIONAL, SUBREGIONAL AND BILATERAL FREE TRADE AGREEMENTS

n°7 - July 2010

     
Some documents mentionned on the report:
 
 
 
 
 

Human Rights and Bilateral Investment Treaties. Mapping the role of human rights law within investor-state arbitration
by Luke Eric Peterson, Ed. Rights and Democracy - International Centre for Human Rights and Democratic Development (2009)

 

Bolivia y el CIADI: crónica de un divorcio anunciado

Equipo de Análisis Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores y Cultos de Bolivia, only in Spanish (July 2010)

 

Trade and Development Report 2007

UNCTAD

 

32 organismes exigent plus de transparence et de consultation de la population concernant les négociations d’un accord de libre-échange Canada-Union européen

Press release from Attac Québec, only in French (6 August 2010)

   
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THE RIGHT TO WATER

n°6 - October 2009

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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THE RIGHTS OF PEASANTS

n°5 - September 2009

  Annex 1 - Declaration of Rights of Peasants - Women and Men, adopted by La Vía Campesina International Coordinating Committee (Seoul, March 2009)
 
 
 
 
 
 
    Annex 7b - Voluntary guidelines to support the progressive realization of the right to adequate food in the context of national food security, FAO (November 2004) Part II
 
 
 
 
 
     
More on this issue:
  FAO Website on the right to food
 
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TRANSBOUNDARY TRANSFERS OF TOXIC WASTES AND THEIR EFFECT ON HUMAN RIGHTS

n°4 - May 2009

 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Annex 7 - Rotterdam Convention on the Prior Informed Consent Procedure for Certain Hazardous Chemicals and Pesticides in International Trade (revised version 2005)

and Rotterdam Convention Website HERE

 
 
 
 
 

Annex 12 - Norms on the responsibilities of transnational corporations and other business enterprises with regard to human rights (adopted by the Sub-Commission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights in 2003)

and its Commentary (Sub-Commission, 2003)

 
 
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THE GLOBAL FOOD CRISIS AND THE RIGHT TO FOOD

n°3 - December 2008

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
     
More on this issue:
  Website of the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food, Olivier de Schutter (June 2008-)
  Website of the former UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food, Jean Ziegler and his team (2000 - June 2008)
 
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THE OPTIONAL PROTOCOL TO THE INTERNATIONAL COVENANT ON ECONOMIC, SOCIAL AND CULTURAL RIGHTS (ICESCR)

n°2 - November 2008

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
More on this issue:
 
 
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THE HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL AND ITS MECHANISMS

n°1 - March 2008

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
     
More on this issue:
  Webpage of the Human Rights Council