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 7th session 03 March – 28 March 2008 Read the CETIM’s written statement Summary of the problem Since the Chernobyl catastrophe, between 5-8 million people1 in Belarus, the Ukraine and the Russian Federation continue to live in areas that remain heavily contaminated. Up to 90% of the radiation dose received by the […]
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HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL 7th session 03 March – 28 March 2008 Read the CETIM’s written statement In France, a country with 3.3 million persons inadequately housed or homeless, and 6 million in a situation of real precariousness, it is urgent to create the conditions necessary for the implementation of the right to housing!1 From Words […]
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The South has already repaid its external debt to the North, but the North refuses to recognize its debts to the South1 1. Since the debt crisis, precipitated in 1979 by changes in US monetary policy in the form of a unilateral increase in interest rates of the Federal Reserve by Paul Adolph Volcker, the […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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