«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 the rights of peasants
HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL 25th session 03 March – 28 March 2014 [Excerpt from the statement] CETIM and FIMARC have long been committed to the promotion and protection of the right to food. They are also committed to the defence of peasant and family farming. Today, this peasantry is threatened with extinction, despite the fact that […] The property and the distribution of the land have always been major stumbling blocks in Guatemala. They have been the source of many violent conflicts and they have structured the social and ethnical power relations and determined the economic and class stratification in the country. This is consequently reflected in the situation of indigenous daily farm workers, which make up 69% of this agricultural workforce, and of which 74.8% live in poverty. Their working conditions sometimes resemble slavery: the working contracts are oral, days count between 9 and 12 working hours and usually there is little or no right to holidays or weekly rest days. Social security is non existent and death threats are reported for workers who organize themselves in trade unions. The state of Guatemala should take measures to comply with its obligations under the terms of numerous international conventions. HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL 23rd Session 27 May – 14 June 2013 Since independence in 1960, political life in Madagascar has been disrupted by several attempted coups. On 17 March 2009, the then mayor of the capital, Andry Rajoelina (1974), took power by force, plunging the country into an endless political crisis. Although the African Union […] HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL 24th session 9 September – 27 September 2013 [Excerpt from the statement] Since 19 August, the rural world in Colombia has been mobilizing in the face of the government’s attempt to impose by force the free trade agreements signed, in particular, with the United States. Traditional peasant seed reserves have been the […] INTERGOVERNMENTAL WORKING GROUP ON THE RIGHTS OF PEASANTS 1st session 15 – 19 July 2013 [Excerpt from the declaration] Famine and malnutrition in the world are on the increase and we have known for several years that the Millennium Development Goals will not be achieved by 2015. Worse still, 80% of the nearly one billion […]
Right to food
The situation of farm workers in Guatemala
Violations of human rights in Madagascar
Criminalisation of ancestral seeds in Colombia
Rights of peasants and others working in rural areas
