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

The United States tightens its anti-Cuban blockade: new curtailment of freedoms

SUBCOMMITTEE ON THE PROMOTION AND PROTECTION OF HUMAN RIGHTS 56th session 26 July – 13 August 2004 Read the CETIM’s written statement 1. The United States government has recently taken another step in its aggressive policy against Cuba. Repeating that he does not exclude the use of armed force to “hasten the day of liberation” […]

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 […]

Implementation of the right to development and the Working Group

COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS 60th session 15 March – 23 April 2004 [Excerpt from the declaration] At its 5th session (11-20 February 2004), this Group decided to set up a new mechanism called the ‘High Level Task Force’ to assist the Working Group in its task of implementing the right to development. While the intention […]

The right to food must not be subordinated to WTO agreements

COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS 60th session 15 March – 23 April 2004 [Extract from the declaration] The Europe-Third World Centre (CETIM) is deeply concerned about the draft ‘Voluntary Guidelines to support the progressive realisation of the right to adequate food’. Drawn up by an intergovernmental working group within the FAO, it should be adopted next […]

Good Governance against Good Government?

COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS 60th session 15 March – 23 April 2004 Read the CETIM’s written statement Good Governance: Conceptual Vagueness, Ideological Clearness 1. Since the beginning of the 1990s, the major international organizations, first and foremost among them International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank, have been lavishing upon their member countries recommendations […]

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