«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
HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL 23rd session 27 May – 14 June 2013 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. In spite of the United Nations’ repeated injunctions, and in spite of accession to power […] HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL 23rd session 27 May – 14 June 2013 [Excerpt of the declaration] 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 […] Forty years after the coup d’Etat, Chile remains marked by two decades of military dictatorship. The democratic transition that followed is left incomplete: The current constitution was established under the rule of General Pinochet, the victims of the dictatorship only rarely receive compensation for their suffering. The process of democratization needs to continue so Chile can leave behind its dark period of history. HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL 23rd session 27 May-14 June 2013 [Excerpt from the declaration] The dispersal policy implemented by these two States is a measure designed to keep Basque prisoners as far away as possible from their families and loved ones. In Spain, the average distance between a Basque prisoner and his family is 632 km. […] HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL 22nd Session 25 February – 22 March 2013 Israel’s decision to boycott the UPR is a further illustration of its disregard for its international human rights obligations and its lack of commitment to international cooperation in the field of human rights, which is a duty of UN Member States. Israel’s refusal to […]
For the immediate and unconditional lifting of the embargo against Cuba
The use of drones and other lethal robots
Assessment of human rights in Chile: 40 years later
Human rights of Basque political prisoners
Israel and the Universal Periodic Review
