«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
COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS Open-ended Working Group to formulate a draft optional protocol to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights 23 February – 5 March 2004 [Excerpt from the declaration] For other opponents, the lack of financial resources is the main obstacle to the realisation of economic, social and cultural rights. However, […] SUBCOMMITTEE ON THE PROMOTION AND PROTECTION OF HUMAN RIGHTS 55th session 28 July – 15 August 2003 [Excerpt from the statement] This commercial globalisation has disastrous consequences: malnutrition affecting 800 million people worldwide, disease, pollution, deterioration of education and health systems, mass unemployment, increase in precarious work, destruction of societies, particularly through forced displacement of […] SUBCOMMITTEE ON THE PROMOTION AND PROTECTION OF HUMAN RIGHTS 55th session 28 July – 15 August 2003 [Excerpt from the statement] It must be noted that most of these acts, although they contravene the Charter and international law, have been ‘legalised’ by the Security Council. Thus, certain States are complicit with the United States, which […] SUBCOMMITTEE ON THE PROMOTION AND PROTECTION OF HUMAN RIGHTS 55th session 28 July – 15 August 2003 Read the CETIM’s writtent statement 1. The US embargo against Cuba is condemned by an ever larger and by now overwhelming majority of states members of the United Nations General Assembly. However, it continues to be imposed by […] SUBCOMMITTEE ON THE PROMOTION AND PROTECTION OF HUMAN RIGHTS 55th session 28 July – 15 August 2003 Read the CETIM’s written statement 1. There are millions of refugees and displaced people all over the world. Forced to exile or to live somewhere else than their usual places of residence, – having lost all their real […]
Statement on the draft optional protocol to the ICESCR
Market globalisation: a danger to democracies
The United States on the fringes of legality
The effects of the US embargo against Cuba and the reasons of the urgent need to lift it
The right of return for the palestinians refugees: right, justice and reconciliation
