Il n‘y a pas un monde développé et un mondeHuman Rights Council 38th Session Read the statement (PDF) in English
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CETIM, UDAPT and FORUM NOBIS denounce Chevron’s attacks against victims’ defenders in the United States and Ecuador. Following the report submitted by the three organizations, the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders urges the US government to act.
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The CETIM, the Permanent Mission of the Plurinational State of Bolivia, La Vía Campesina, FIAN International and Bread for All organized a parallel conference during the 37th session of the Human Rights Council.
Continue readingHuman Rights Council 37th session of the Human Rights Council (26 February – 23 March 2018) CETIM, supported by IADL, tni, Ituc CSI IGB, Friends of the Earth and FIAN to call on the Brazilian government to respect its international and national obligations by repealing all laws and conduct that violate the Constitution, international human […]
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A side event was held at the UN on the occasion of the 37th session of the UN Human Rights Council. It was entitled: “Reflections on the United Nations Treaty binding transnational corporations on human rights“.
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Le Courrier interviewed Melik Özden regarding the progress of the Human Rights Council’s working group on a legally binding treaty on transnational corporations. The conversation between Bénito Perez the CETIM’s director appeared in the 3 November 2017 edition of the Geneva daily. The CETIM is one of the non-governmental organizations at the origin of the […]
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The chair of the intergovernmental working group entrusted with drafting a legally binding instrument on transnational corporations (TNCs),1 Guillaume Long, Ambassador of Ecuador, presented the “elements” that will serve as a basis for drafting the instrument. In parallel, the Global Campaign to Dismantle Corporate Power and Stop Impunity (Global Campaign), of which the CETIM is […]
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During the thirty-sixth session of the United Nations Human Rights Council, which took place in September, the CETIM drew attention to the situation of the people of three countries on the American continent: Venezuela, Cuba and Chili. Venezuela Preoccupied by a unilateral presentation of the situation in Venezuela that encourages violence, the CETIM denounced the […]
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On 20 September 2017, the chair of the intergovernmental working group entrusted with drafting a United Nations declaration on the rights of peasants and other persons working in rural areas, Nardi Suxo Iturry, the ambassador of Bolivia, presented her report on the fourth session of the working group to the plenary of the Human Rights […]
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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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