«Il n‘y a pas un monde développé et un monde sous-développé, mais un seul monde mal développé»
In the following pages, you will find CETIM’s English declarations to the UN on the theme of the rights of peasants
UNCTAD – United Nations Conference on Trade and Development 16th Session October 20-23, 2025 The LVC representative advocated before UNCTAD for a radical overhaul of international trade, calling to move away from neoliberal logic to place food sovereignty and human rights at the center of trade. Faced with the deadlock at the WTO and […] HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL 60th session 8th of September – 8th of October 2025 [Excerpt of the statement] Humanity today faces existential challenges such as land grabbing, biodiversity loss, threats to seeds from industrial selection, and increasing environmental degradation. As the report highlights, in the face of these threats, the UNDRIP provides a particularly effective and […] EXPERT MECHANISM ON THE RIGHT TO DEVELOPMENT 10th Session 29 october 2024 [Excerpt from the declaration] The dominant trade and investment regime, mainly promoted and enforced by the WTO and other international organizations and instruments, has consistently harmed the world’s peasantry and thus the protection of biodiversity. Since 1995, the WTO Agreement on Agriculture has […] HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL 57th session 9 September – 11 October 2024 UNDROP: a key step towards social and climate justice At the occasion of the presentation of the first report of the newly appointed UN Experts’ Working Group on the rights of peasants and other people working in rural areas, CETIM, FIAN International and La […] HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL 56th session 18 June – 12 July 2024 Since the social-political outbreak of December 2022, the CETIM has supported the Peruvian indigenous-peasant organisations – protagonists of the social protests – in their advocacy work within the UN human rights mechanisms. Read the CETIM’s oral statement in Spanish Watch the video subtitled in […]
For Global Trade in the Service of Food Sovereignty: LVC and CETIM’s Call to UNCTAD
CETIM response to the report of the Working Group on UNDROP
A new trading system for biodiversity
Contribution to the new Working Group on peasants’ rights
Peru: criminalisation of social protests continues
