«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.
Paris, Geneva, January 29, 2026. The Confédération Paysanne (Peasant Confederation) and CETIM welcome the position paper published on January 26 by several United Nations human rights experts*. These experts express their deep concern regarding the use of mass arrests, the criminalization of social movements, and the prosecution of peasants and union leaders in France. This […] JOINT PRESS RELEASE CETIM – Confédération paysanne Paris, Geneva, January 15, 2026 – The Confédération paysanne and CETIM filed today an official complaint with several Special Procedures of the United Nations Human Rights Council, following the arrest and detention of 52 peasants, members of the Confédération paysanne, during a protest in Paris yesterday, January 14, […] 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 […]
When UN Experts Denounce the Criminalization of Peasant Struggles in France
52 peasants arrested in France: Confédération paysanne and CETIM appeal the UN
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
