«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 at the UN on the theme of impunity of transnational corporations
HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL 32nd session June 13 – July 01 2016 [Extract from the Declaration] The High Commissioner for Human Rights is supposed to be the guardian of international human rights law. However, we note that there is no reference to binding international human rights instruments or to the United Nations Charter. This distorts the […]
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CETIM struggles against corporate power and impunity for many years. It has long had a firm commitment to the adoption of binding international norms on multinationals to end impunity for the human rights violations that they commit.
Continue readingHUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL 31st session 29 February – 24 March 2016 [Excerpt from the statement] We welcome the fact that Australia has agreed to implement the Equator’s recommendation, which notes the need to, and I quote, “strengthen the normative framework for the protection of human rights, including the monitoring, follow-up, investigation and redress of human […]
Continue readingHUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL 31st session 29 February – 24 March 2016 [Extract from the statement] We are alarmed by the extrajudicial executions to which the population of southern Madagascar continues to be subjected, particularly in the Ankazoabo and Midongy du Sud regions. As we have already denounced in this forum, since 2012, on the pretext […]
Continue readingHUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL 31st session 29 February – 24 March 2016 [Extract from the statement] There are many cases of planned and targeted assassinations of human rights defenders, whether by public officials or private actors. This is what happened on 3 March 2016 to Berta Cáceres, an indigenous leader and defender of the rights of […]
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