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 10th session 02 March – 27 March 2009 [Excerpt from the statement] The Special Rapporteur devoted his report submitted to the present session to the dismantling of ships, which has posed many problems over the years1. The response to this issue has been the recent adoption by the International Maritime Organization of […]
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DURBAN FOLLOW-UP CONFERENCE 20 April – 24 April 2009 If the recommendations and resolutions contained in the most recent version of the “technically reviewed text” (A/CONF.211/PC/WG.2/CRP.2 of 17 March 2009), submitted for discussion at the Durban II meeting, are being implemented practically everywhere, this represents, surely, a considerable step forward in regard to the daily […]
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Read the CETIM’s written statement in .pdf format 1. The choice of title for this paper is deliberate. For the last twenty years or so the Western Powers which make up the NATO alliance have arrogantly set themselves up as representatives of the “International Community” and in so doing have even marginalized the United Nations, […]
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HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL 10th session 02 March – 27 March 2009 1. From its earliest origins, western culture, has conceived the relationship between man and nature as conflictual and oscillating between two poles1. On the one hand, nature is seen as a powerful, spontaneous and creative force, the origin of life and all matter, determining […]
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HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL 10th special session on the economic crisis February 2009 1. The grave financial crisis currently affecting the United States and the other countries of the North did not suddenly happen overnight1. If it is difficult to determine exactly when it began, the fact is that it first hit the South – and […]
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