«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
1. Child labour has probably existed from the beginning of history1. But the establishment of the capitalist world system in the fifteenth century, and its consolidation, in the eighteenth and the nineteenth centuries, brought with it child labour on a large scale, both in the centre (wage earners) and in the periphery (various kinds of […]
Continue readingIt has been almost fifteen years since the fight against poverty was put on the international political agenda. And it has been ten years now- since the UN Social Summit in Copenhagen- that it has been the subject of world consensus. During the last UN summit in New York in September 2005, the Millennium Development […]
Continue readingTo fight terrorism and to respect or promote human rights are all different aspects of a same protection system falling on the State. With the tragic events of September 11, 2001 and the adoption by the Security Council of resolution 1373/2001, the United Nations, the international community and particularly the democratic countries similar to the […]
Continue readingI. THE DECISION TO ABOLISH THE COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS1 The United Nations “Summit” held in September 2005, approved in its Final Declaration to abolish the Commission on Human Rights and to replace it by a Council on Human Rights. The Council’s features are not defined in the Final Declaration, but the superpower and its […]
Continue readingI. Introduction The attempt to convert the main United Nations human rights body into an instrument of unilateral service for several powers, unrepresentative of the current diversity of the international community of states, has, fortunately, been thwarted by the vote of the 170 member states of the General Assembly that approved the creation of the […]
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