«Il n‘y a pas un monde développé et un monde sous-développé, mais un seul monde mal développé»
CETIM defends victims of human rights violations in the Global South. It supports their representatives in gaining access to and obtaining the intervention of the United Nations protection mechanisms, where required.
Several mechanisms can be activated at the United Nations to get concrete improvements on the ground, in particular the Human Rights Council, the United Nations Special Rapporteurs and the committees that monitor the implementation of the human rights treaties.
CETIM mainly works with peasant organizations, including La Via Campesina, trade unions, organizations and representatives of peasant communities victims of human rights violations.
Indigenous fishing leaders from Panama’s Ngäbe Buglé people are at the UN Human Rights Council this week to highlight the repression of indigenous fishers and widespread fishing bans which threaten their livelihoods. The government of Panama has successively cut off access to traditional fishing grounds of the Ngäbe Buglé people since 2010, promising compensation in […] On the occasion of the International Day of Peasant’s Struggles, CETIM has signed this joint declaration by several peasant and international solidarity organizations. April 17, 2025 Today, we join hands with peasants, landless rural workers, small-scale food producers, Indigenous Peoples, and other peoples working in rural areas around the world to mark the International Day […] PRESS RELEASE Geneva, 18th March 2025 – The National Federation of the Agricultural Sector (FNSA, Morocco) and CETIM have filed a complaint with international human rights protection mechanisms to denounce the consequences of Law 97-15. This law, adopted by the Moroccan Parliament on 5th February 2025, imposes heavy restrictions on the right to strike, particularly […] During the 56th session of the United Nations Human Rights Council, the new UN Special Rapporteur on freedom of association and peaceful assembly, Ms Gina Romero, presented a visit report on Peru drafted by her predecessor, Mr Clément N. Voule. He had visited the country in May 2023 to investigate the bloody repression of social […] On 25 June 2024, a new foreign military intervention of Haiti began. However, in October 2023, CETIM, La Via Campesina and the Haitian peasant organisations Tet Kole Ty Peyizan Ayitien, Mouvman Peyizan Papay and Mouvman Peyizan Nasyonal Kongre Papay (via CETIM and La Via Campesina), expressed their concern at the imperialist threat of foreign military […]
Panama: Artisanal Fisherspeople highlight human rights violations at UN
Philippines: Progress and new challenges in land struggles
Morocco: The Struggle for the Respect of the Right to Strike in the Agricultural Sector
Peru: criminalisation of demonstrations challenged by the Human Rights Council
New foreign military intervention in Haiti
