«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. For over twenty years, the US embargo against Cuba has been condemned by an ever larger, and now overwhelming, majority of Member States of the United Nations General Assembly.1 In spite of the United Nations’ repeated injunctions,2 and in spite of accession to power of President Barack Obama, the embargo continues to be imposed […] The International Association of Democratic Lawyers (IADL) and the Europe – Third World Centre (CETIM) welcome the decision of the Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, in order to draw attention to the use of drones and other lethal robots. These new weapon systems, which could be used to assassinate suspects all around […] Mr. President, We welcome the report1 submitted by the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders and we share her concerns about the smear campaigns that target human rights defenders as, basically, defending human rights is a political act as Mahtma Gandhi and Nelson Mandela, among others, have taught to us. The written […] [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 […] The current economic and financial crisis has important social consequences.1 In all member-states of the European Union unemployment is rising and governments are preparing austerity plans in order to reduce their budget deficits following the economic recession and the bailing out of banks. While the profit margins of banks and of major companies, as well […]
For the immediate and unconditional lifting of the embargo against Cuba
The use of drones and other lethal robots
Protection of human rights defenders
Violation of human rights of Kurdish people in Turkey
Social and economic rights in the European Union
