1970-2020 : 50 ans de solidarité avec les mouvements sociaux !
STATEMENT Brazil: UN Special Rapporteur urges Government and multinationals to face up to their responsibility
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CETIM and La Vía Campesina continue to advocate for the implementation of the Declaration on the Rights of Peasants
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CETIM participated in the design, coordination, writing, editing, publishing and distribution of a publication entitled “The EU and the corporate impunity nexus. Building the UN binding treaty on transnational corporations and human rights”. This survey was carried out with our partners: Les Amis de la Terre France, the Observatoire des multinationales and the Transnational Institute. […]
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The 4th session of the Working Group on a Binding Treaty to Regulate the Activities of Multinationals was held from 15 to 19 October 2018.
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The UN Human Rights Council in Geneva has just adopted the Declaration on peasants’ rights. A great victory for the peasants and the organizations that have supported them for 17 years.
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Global Campaign to Reclaim Peoples Sovereignty, Dismantle Corporate Power and Stop Impunity Public Statement Tuesday 19th December 2017 According to our sources, the European Union (EU) delegation to the United Nations General Assembly’s Fifth Committee, which deals with budgetary matters, is trying to eliminate the financing of the Human Rights Council’s intergovernmental working group (IGWG) […]
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CETIM and its partners call on the Swiss National Bank as a shareholder of the multinational Chevron to commit itself to protect the climate and human rights.
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« If we do not fight to transform the world, nothing is possible», Samir Amin. The CETIM spreads a crowdfunding campaign. The money collected allows us to keep fighting against transnational corporations’ impunity which violate human rights and destroy biodiversity.
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The ever greater audience of extreme right – or downright fascist – movements in the very heart of “Old Europe”, the victory of the Brexit in the United Kingdom and the election of Donald Trump in the United States are troubling developments.
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These comments were prepared in collaboration with Professor Gilles Lhuilier. They concern a draft General Comment elaborated by the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. The project focus on state obligations in the framework of the activities of business enterprises. Read CETIM’s comments by following this link
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In the June 2020 newsletter: an article entitled “Human Rights in the Context of the Covid-19 Pandemic”. It is followed by an article on the decision of the Human Rights Committee which recognized Colombia’s responsibility in the assassination of a trade unionist. Next, you will find a summary of the statements made by the CETIM during the 43rd session of the CodH, an article on Swiss foreign policy in the alder of the declaration on the rights of peasants.
