Human Rights

Interview: State of play of the UN process on TNCs and Human Rights

In this interview published in Terra Justa, Raffaele Morgantini of CETIM gives a comprehensive overview of the current state of play of the Binding Treaty negotiations at the United Nations.

Corporate capture of the UN Summit on Food Systems denounced at the UN

Press release Geneva, March 3, 2021: La Via Campesina and CETIM express their concerns about the corporate capture of agribusiness lobbies of the preparations for the UN Summit on Food Systems.

Systematic violence against peasant organizations in Colombia denounced at the UN

Press release Geneva, March 3rd, 2021 – “In Colombia, one social leader is killed every 41 hours”, denounce FENSUAGRO and the CETIM before the UN Human Rights Council.

Presentation of the report of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights of Colombia

HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL 46th session Five years after the peace accords, 250 signatories and 1,139 social leaders have been assassinated, most of them peasants, indigenous and black communities, which indicates that in Colombia, a social leader is assassinated every 41 hours.

The right to food in the light of peasants’ rights and global governance

HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL 46th session Perla Alvarez, representative of La Via Campesina, addressed the plenary assembly of the 46th session of the United Nations Human Rights Council (HRC), on the occasion of the presentation of the report of the new UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food, Mr. Michael Fakhri.

Julian Assange’s detention persists: Switzerland has to offer him asylum

The CETIM welcomes the decision of the British judge Vanessa Baraitser declaring that the health condition of Julian Assange, currently imprisoned in London, excludes the possibility of transferring him to the United States. This is an example of respect of the right to health, a subject that, for years, the CETIM has been advocating for.

Negotiations on the binding treaty on TNCs continue in a difficult context

The sixth negotiating session of the United Nations Intergovernmental Working Group to elaborate a legally binding instrument on transnational corporations (TNCs) and human rights was held in Geneva from 26 to 30 October 2020. As every year, the CETIM and its partner organizations, united in the Global Campaign to Claim Peoples’ Sovereignty, Dismantle the Power […]

Chevron’s Impunity in Ecuador: urgent Call from International Civil Society

In solidarity with tens of thousands of people affected by the biggest environmental disaster that has hit the Ecuadorian Amazon, more than 240 organizations, networks, movements, and unions –representing more than 285 million people internationally – are asking the government of Ecuador to appeal the arbitration award issued by the Dutch justice system in favor […]

India: unprecedented mobilization of workers and peasants

Press release Geneva, 15th December 2020 – Over the last two weeks, India has been the scene of an unprecedented general strike. According to some media reports, it is believed to be the largest mobilization in the history of mankind: a human river of 250 million people, workers and peasants, hand in hand, marching […]