«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
During its sitting on 21 May 2012, the ECOSOC Committee on NGOs took note of the fact that the two-year suspension of the CETIM’s consultative status would end in July 2012. During the same sitting, Turkey (which had requested this sanction against the CETIM) declared that it would not oppose the restitution of its status […] HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION Open-ended Working Group on the Right to Development 25 February – 8 March 2002 [Excerpt from the declaration] The Declaration on the Right to Development is the first and only international document to provide a general definition of development: ‘a comprehensive economic, social, cultural and political process, aimed at the continuous improvement […] COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS Open-ended Working Group on the Right to Development 25 February – 8 March 2002 [Excerpt from the statement] It cannot be claimed that the free market is the only means of achieving development when we know and see the harmful effects of ‘globalisation’ on human rights, when we know that developing […] HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION 57th session 19 March – 21 April 2001 [Excerpt from the statement] Despite the condemnation by numerous observers and experts, both within and outside the UN, of the inhuman nature of embargoes, they continue to be imposed, whether under the auspices of the UN or not. The condemnation of their illegality and […] HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION 57th session 19 March – 21 April 2001 [Excerpt from the statement] CETIM strongly condemns the harsh and unjust reality imposed on the Palestinian people by the State of Israel. The economic, military and moral pressure inflicted by Israeli policy, as well as arbitrary administrative persecution, continual isolation and the persistent refusal […]
Turkey condemns the Petition for the teaching of the Kurdish language
External debt of Southern countries and the Right to Development
Comments on the content of the Right to Development
Embargoes against Cuba and Iraq
Human rights violations in the occupied territories
