1970-2020 : 50 ans de solidarité avec les mouvements sociaux !
The United Nations Human Rights Committee declared the Colombian state responsible for violating the right to life and to an effective judicial remedy of a murdered trade unionist. This is an historic decision.
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On 2 June 2020, Melik Özden, Director of the CETIM, was invited to participate in the webinar organised by the Permanent Missions of Belarus, China, Cuba, Iran, Nicaragua, Russia, Syria, Venezuela and Zimbabwe to the United Nations in New York.
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Unilateral coercive measures continue to proliferate during the Covid-19 pandemic. This is all the more worrying in the context of a deep economic crisis which because of the pandemic is becoming more acute.
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Containment has demonstrated the importance of respect and effective implementation of all human rights.
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In October 2019, presidential elections were held in Bolivia to choose the country’s new president for the period 2020-2025.
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In October 2019, a massive protest movement began in Chile against a savage neoliberal model that widens social inequalities and disregards the democratic collective processes.
Continue readingHUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL 40th session Oral statement by CETIM denouncing foreign political and economic interference in Venezuela. Read the statement in Spanish
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HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL 40th session Alarmed by the fierce repression against the movement of “yellow vests”, the CETIM referred the matter to the UN Human Rights Council.
Continue readingHUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL 39th session Read the statement in Spanish
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In the area of human rights, for more than twenty years Chile has been experiencing an increase in mobilizations of indigenous peoples for the respect of their rights to land, natural resources and recognition by the State.
Continue readingThe CETIM bulletin is published twice a year
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.
