«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 21st session 10 September – 28 September 2012 [Excerpt from the statement] We, the communities of the municipalities of San Andrés and La Libertad department of Petén, Guatemala, have repeatedly requested the Guatemalan State authorities to carry out an impartial investigation into the human rights violations to which we are subjected in […]
Continue readingHUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL 13th session 01 March – 26 March 2010 [Excerpt from the statement] We welcome the commitment of the Special Rapporteur on the right to food and his valuable contributions to the effective implementation of this right. In his report on ‘Large-scale land acquisitions and leases ’1 , the Special Rapporteur proposes minimum […]
Continue readingMr. President, I am Henry Saragih, general coordinator of La Via Campesina. La Via Campesina is global movement and organisations of peasants based in many countries including in Senegal, India, Switzerland, France, Spain, Indonesia, Japan, Norway, Mali, and many more. We have about 200 millions member which participated actively in La Via Campesina. On behalf […]
Continue reading[During its sitting on 21 May 2012, the ECOSOC Committee on NGOs took note of the fact that the two-year suspension of the CETIM’s consultative status would end in July 2012. During the same sitting, Turkey (which had requested this sanction against the CETIM) declared that it would not oppose the restitution of its status […]
Continue readingHUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL 13th Session 01 March – 26 March 2010 I. History of a genocide and of an ecocide1 When, in 1492, Columbus landed on the island he named La Española (Haiti and Santo Domingo), he found a veritable orchard populated by a large indigenous population living in peace. The deforestation of the island […]
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