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.
In July 2012, dozens of workers of the Manesar plant of the car company Maruti Suzuki India Limited (MSIL) – located in the State of Haryana in northern India – were dismissed and detained without charge because they were exercising their right to association and affiliation to a trade union of their choice. Indeed, workers’ rights and trade union rights, including the right to freedom of association, the right to collective bargaining and the right to equal pay for equal work, are not respected by the management of MSIL. Following a riot, the police arrested over a hundred workers, who are to this day still in custody. Under the pretext of the violence and a fire caused by the riots, the management suppressed the trade union and dismissed over two thousand workers. It is vital, that the human rights situation and the behavior of the police in this affair be investigated by an independent inquiry.
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HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL 13th session 1 March – 26 March 2010 [Exerpt from the declaration] Several gold mining titles – located in different areas of the two municipalities – have been granted by the Ministry of Mines to private individuals, as well as to the South African multinational AngloGold Ashanti. Several licensees have asked the […]
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HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL 12th session 14 September – 2 October 2009 [Excerpt from the statement] According to new FAO estimates published recently, undernourishment reached a record level in 2009, passing the dreaded mark of 1 billion human beings suffering from hunger, which means, in plain language, that the food crisis has worsened considerably over the […]
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HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL 9th session September 08 – September 26 2008 [Excerpt from the statement] As we have already indicated in our joint statements presented at the special session of the Human Rights Council on the global food crisis1, the causes of hunger and malnutrition are multiple, but the main cause is the orientation of […]
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HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL 6th session, 2nd part December 10 – December 14, 2007 Read the CETIM’s written statement The question may seem absurd given that poverty limits the capacity of individuals to exercise their freedom, to enjoy their most fundamental rights, to live in dignity, and to take their place fully in society. How, for […]
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