«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.
HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL 31st session March 2016 [Extract from the statement] There are many cases of planned and targeted assassinations of human rights defenders, whether by public officials or private actors. This is what happened on 3 March 2016 to Berta Cáceres, an indigenous leader and defender of the rights of indigenous peoples and the […] 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 […] The anti-colonial struggle in Haiti rightly fits into the current geopolitical context, which is characterised by a profound multidimensional crisis of the dominant system. This crisis is leading to an upheaval in the global geopolitical and geo-economic balance of power and, consequently, to an upsurge in imperialist strategies. Indeed, the dominant imperialist forces are continuing […] PRESS RELEASE – La Via Campesina, CETIM, FIAN International Bagnolet, Geneva. In October 2023, during its 54th session, the UN Human Rights Council adopted resolution 54/9, establishing a new Working Group on the Rights of Peasants and other People Working in Rural Areas, comprising five experts from the five UN regions.
Murder of Berta Cáceres
Peru: criminalisation of demonstrations challenged by the Human Rights Council
New foreign military intervention in Haiti
Stop imperialist intervention! The struggle of the Haitian people at the UN
UN Human Rights Council appoints the members of the Working Group on Peasants’ Rights
