CETIM declarations on economic, social and cultural rights

In the following pages, you will find CETIM’s English declarations to the UN on the theme of economic, social and cultural rights

 

Implementation of the Right to Development

SUBCOMMITTEE ON THE PROMOTION AND PROTECTION OF HUMAN RIGHTS 56th session 26 July – 13 August 2004 [Excerpt from the statement] For CETIM, promoting the right to development requires formal recognition of the validity, indivisibility, binding nature and justiciability of all human rights, including the right to solidarity, which are enshrined in numerous international instruments. […]

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Unilateral military interventions: the UN must respond!

SUBCOMMITTEE ON THE PROMOTION AND PROTECTION OF HUMAN RIGHTS 56th session 26 July – 13 August 2004 [Excerpt from the statement] On 20 March 2003, the US-British coalition launched a military attack on Iraq, under the pretext that the regime in power possessed weapons of mass destruction, which resulted in an occupation. The United States […]

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Criticism of the resolution 1546, of the Security Council

SUB-COMMISSION ON THE PROMOTION AND PROTECTION OF HUMAN RIGHTS 56th session 26 July – 13 August 2004 Read the CETIM’s written statement Resolution 1546 (2004), on Iraq, adopted by the Security Council on the 8th June 2004, that declares the end of the occupation and the setting of a sovereign interim government, does not disguise […]

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Bilateral treaties on free trade and promotion and protection of investments: “arms of massive destruction” to national and international public law and human rights law

SUBCOMMITTEE ON THE PROMOTION AND PROTECTION OF HUMAN RIGHTS 56th session 26 July – 13 August 2004 Read the CETIM’s written statement I. Our planet is wrapped in a thick weft of international, regional and bilateral economic and financial agreements and treaties that have subordinated or taken the place of the basic tools of international […]

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