CETIM declarations on economic, social and cultural rights

Privatizing of education or depriving of education?1 1. The right to education is universally recognized, both by specialized international organizations and by the governments of the member states. However, in practice, this recognition remains without effect in most counties, especially with regard to girls education. Universal primary education, free and compulsory, is enshrined in the […]

1. Child labour has probably existed from the beginning of history1. But the establishment of the capitalist world system in the fifteenth century, and its consolidation, in the eighteenth and the nineteenth centuries, brought with it child labour on a large scale, both in the centre (wage earners) and in the periphery (various kinds of […]

It has been almost fifteen years since the fight against poverty was put on the international political agenda. And it has been ten years now- since the UN Social Summit in Copenhagen- that it has been the subject of world consensus. During the last UN summit in New York in September 2005, the Millennium Development […]

To fight terrorism and to respect or promote human rights are all different aspects of a same protection system falling on the State. With the tragic events of September 11, 2001 and the adoption by the Security Council of resolution 1373/2001, the United Nations, the international community and particularly the democratic countries similar to the […]