«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 57th session 19 March – 21 April 2001 [Excerpt from the statement] CETIM is deeply disappointed by the position adopted by certain governments and the independent expert during the proceedings of the Working Group on the Right to Development. The right to development is a human right; it is inalienable and […] HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION 57th session 19 March – 21 April 2001 [Excerpt from the declaration] On the initiative of CETIM and the American Association of Jurists (AAJ), an NGO petition was launched to this effect, calling on the 57th session of the Human Rights Commission, on the one hand, to affirm the primacy of fundamental […] HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION Open-ended Working Group on the Right to Development 29 January – 2 February 2001 [Excerpt from the statement] However, the mandate of the Human Rights Commission stipulates: ‘the appointment by the President of the Commission on Human Rights of an independent expert highly qualified in the field of the right to development, […] Centre Europe-Tiers Monde (CETIM) and the American Association of Jurists have repeatedly raised the issue of the effects of external debt on the exercise of the right to development and economic, social and cultural rights; we have also proposed a number of reforms and mechanisms for bringing us closer to a solution to this stubborn […] Unofficial translation from the French We are witnessing this Commission on Human Rights a shift in semantics that may prove to become very harmful. For example, there is more and more talk of “extreme poverty” and less and less about “poverty”, or of “debt of the most indebted countries”, or of countries having “suffered a […]
An attempt to reinterpret the Declaration on the Right to Development
Declaration on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
Discussion on the report of the independent expert
The Question of the External Debt of Southern Countries
Extreme poverty
