«Il n‘y a pas un monde développé et un monde sous-développé, mais un seul monde mal développé»
In the following pages, you will find CETIM’s English declarations to the UN on the theme of economic, social and cultural rights
HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL 21st session 10 – 28 September 2012 [Excerpt from the statement] The situation of the Indigenous Peoples living in the municipalities of San Andrés and La Libertad, department of Petén continues to be grave. These communities suffer frequent violations of their human rights, in particular their economic, social and cultural rights guaranteed […] HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL 22nd session 25 February – 22 March 2013 [Excerpt from the statement] There are many mamos (traditional authorities) and other members of our communities who have been disappeared, killed or displaced for maintaining a position of neutrality towards all the legal and illegal armed groups that dispute our sacred territory. Blood has […] HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL 35th session June 2017 [Excerpt from the statement] In this regard, we are alarmed by the health situation in the plains region of Argentina. Our partners from the Regional Assemblies of Fumigated Villages, the Network of Doctors of Fumigated Villages and the Association of Environmental Lawyers informed us of the harmful impacts […] HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL 42nd session September 2019 CETIM supports the initiative towards the elaboration of a UN Declaration on the negative impacts of unilateral coercive measures on human rights. Read the CETIM’s oral statement in Spanish Watch the video subtitled in English HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL 54th session (11 September – 13 October 2023) Chile has a unique water model in the world, based on the privatisation of water sources and water management, which was inherited from the military dictatorship (1973-1990), was deepened during the governments of the transition to democracy and continues to this day. In simple […]
Guatemala: the case of the communities of the municipalities of San Andres and La Libertad
Tayrona indigenous peoples of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta (Colombia)
Argentina: Human right to health
Impacts of unilateral coercive measures on human rights
Violations of the right to water in Chile
