«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 4th session March 12 – March 30 2007 Read the CETIM’s written statement 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, […] HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL 4th session March 12–30, 2007 Read the CETIM’s written statement 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, […] HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL 3rd session 29 November – 8 December 2006 [Excerpt from the statement] The body should be composed of independent experts with recognised expertise in human rights, elected by the members of the Council, as is the case for the International Law Commission. Its composition should also comply with the principle of equitable […] I. THE DECISION TO ABOLISH THE COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS1 The United Nations “Summit” held in September 2005, approved in its Final Declaration to abolish the Commission on Human Rights and to replace it by a Council on Human Rights. The Council’s features are not defined in the Final Declaration, but the superpower and its […] I. Introduction The attempt to convert the main United Nations human rights body into an instrument of unilateral service for several powers, unrepresentative of the current diversity of the international community of states, has, fortunately, been thwarted by the vote of the 170 member states of the General Assembly that approved the creation of the […]
Defending public service is and integral part of defending the right to education
In favour of the total prohibition of child labour and redistribution of wealth in the world
Establishment of the new expert body
Grave and imminent threats to the United Nations human rights system
Remarks and opinions concerning the new Human Rights Council
