1970-2020 : 50 ans de solidarité avec les mouvements sociaux !
HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL (45th session) In a previous statement during this session of the Human Rights Council, the Special Rapporteur on toxic waste, Mr. Tuncak, made clear recommendations, based on the manifest deficiency of national regulation on transnational corporates in Brazil, calling for independent investigations into abuses of power by these entities.
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HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL (45th session) Alarmed by information from our partners on the ground, a coalition of international and Latin American NGOs, of which CETIM is a member, recalled the worrying political situation in the country and urged the de facto government to put an end to the abuses and to guarantee access to justice […]
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HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL (45th session) CETIM and the Movement in Defense of Water, Land and Environmental Protection (MODATIMA), an active movement in defense of the right to water in Chile, collaborated in the framework of the 45th session of the UN Human Rights Council to denounce the violations of the right to water in the […]
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The UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Development presented his report on his visit to Switzerland at the 45th session of the Human Rights Council. CETIM intervened during the debate that followed this presentation to express its concerns.
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CETIM and its partners express their concerns about the new version of the treaty in the framework of the UN Intergovernmental Working Group in charge of negotiating the “legally binding instrument to regulate the activities of transnational corporations (TNCs) and other business enterprises with regard to human rights”.
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Switzerland played a key role during the negotiation of the Declaration on the Rights of Peasants. However, a study commissioned by several Swiss NGOs shows that its foreign policy leaves much to be desired in this area.
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CETIM and its partners have seized the human rights protection mechanisms of the United Nations to denounce the impunity of the perpetrators of the Sacaba and Senkata massacres.
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During the 44th session of the Human Rights Council, the CETIM intervened in the plenary of the HRC on the right to health in relation to the COVID-19 pandemic, on the issue of poverty and human rights and on corporate impunity.
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The book “The United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Peasants: A Tool in the Struggle for our Common Future” in E-book and PDF versions in English and Spanish is now free!
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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.
Continue readingSwitzerland played a key role during the negotiation of the Declaration on the Rights of Peasants. However, a study commissioned by several Swiss NGOs shows that its foreign policy leaves much to be desired in this area.
