«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, trade unions and organizations representing victims or communities affected by transnational corporations operations.
Published in ‘Le Courrier’ on 3 February 2026 By Raffaele Morgantini, CETIM Representative to the UN Since 2024, Senegal has been seeking to assert its energy sovereignty by renegotiating the extractive contracts inherited from the previous neo-colonial regime. Its confrontation with Australian oil company Woodside Energy before an international arbitration tribunal illustrates the tension between […] PRESS RELEASE Chile: Violations of the Mapuche People’s Right to Self-Determination Raised Again at the UN Geneva, Santiago de Chile, 25.03.2025 On 20 March 2025, during the 58th session of the UN Human Rights Council, Hector Llaitul Carrillanca, a Mapuche community member currently imprisoned, through his lawyer Alberto Espinoza and with the support of CETIM, […] PRESS RELEASE Geneva, March 24, 2022 – For more than three years, the activities of the French multinational firm Total in Uganda have prevented hundreds of thousands of people from cultivating their land, denying the rights of the communities to work, food, dignity, and life. The origin of the problem lies in the implantation of […] HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL 49th session 28 February – 01 April 2022 [Excerpt from the declaration] For more than three years, the activities of the French multinational firm Total in Uganda have prevented hundreds of thousands of people from cultivating their land, denying the rights of the communities to work, food, dignity, and life. Read the […] CETIM and the Movement for the Defense of Water, Land, and Environmental Protection (MODATIMA) denounced violations of the right to water in the Petorca region of Chile. The right to water and sanitation is a human right. Indeed, water is essential to human life not only for daily consumption and hygiene but also for food […]
Senegal: Energy sovereignty, a decolonial tool
Chile: Violations of the Rights of the Mapuche Raised Again at the UN
Human and environmental rights: violations by Total in Uganda
Human and environmental rights: violations by Total in Uganda
Complaint to the UN on violations of the right to water in Chile
