«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
COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS 61st session 14 March – 22 April 2005 [Excerpt from the statement] As for the development of methods for assessing the social impact of trade policies, we have sufficient serious studies, from UN bodies and other sources, which describe the catastrophic situation in the world due in particular to the international […] HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION 61st session 14 March – 22 April 2005 Read the CETIM oral statement 1. The Europe – Third World Centre (CETIM) and the American Association of Jurists (AAJ), along with numerous other international organisations for the defence of human rights, is preoccupied by the violations of human rights in Tunisia. President Ben […] HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION 61st session 14 March – 22 April 2005 Read the CETIM oral statement I. THE AGGRESSION The invasion of Iraq, under the false pretext that the regime in place possessed weapons of massive destruction, was a crime of aggression and a crime against peace1. II. WAR CRIMES Acts of war committed during […] COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS 61st session 14 March – 22 April 2005 Read the CETIM’s written statement 1. In 1980, the World Bank estimated that there were 800 million people living in absolute poverty in the developing world. In its first big report on poverty in 1990, its estimate of the number of people in […] COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS Working Group to consider options regarding the elaboration of a draft optional protocol to the ICESCR 10 January – 21 January 2005 [Extract from the declaration] However, this right is more relevant than ever if we take into account the fact that the sovereignty of many States over their natural wealth […]
Comments on the work of the Working Group on the Right to Development
The Human Rights situation in Tunisia
The situation in Iraq, since the recent invasion, is characterized by an accumulation of human rights violations, without precedent, since the end of the second world war
Fighting poverty: alibi of the globalizers
Comments on Parts I and II of the ICESCR
