«Il n‘y a pas un monde développé et un monde sous-développé, mais un seul monde mal développé»
HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL 51st session 12 September – 7 October 2022 [Excerpt from the declaration] After mentioning the illegal exploitation of gold and the suffering of the Yanomami people, CETIM and its partners draw the attention of the Human Rights Council to the dismantling of the ship NAe São Paulo (formerly the aircraft carrier Foch), […]
Continue readingHUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL 10th session 02 March – 27 March 2009 [Excerpt from the statement] The Special Rapporteur devoted his report submitted to the present session to the dismantling of ships, which has posed many problems over the years1. The response to this issue has been the recent adoption by the International Maritime Organization of […]
Continue readingAccess the Critical Report in PDF Presentation Following the 1986-1987 scandals triggered by the dumping of toxic waste in African countries and the dramatic effects of this dumping on both the environment and the health of the local populations, the African governments, under the aegis of the Organization of African Unity (OAU), unilaterally condemned it, […]
Continue readingWe are providing a summary of the oral and written statements provided by CETIM during the 51st session of the Human Rights Council (September-October 2022).
Continue readingOil exploitation, logging, drilling, toxic waste. The irresponsibility of multinationals is devastating the planet and its inhabitants. For more than 50 years, CETIM has denounced the destruction of our environment. It supports the struggles of indigenous peoples and peasants to (re)assert their sovereignty over their living environments their natural resources their way of life and […]
Continue readingHUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL 45th session 14 September – 7 October 2020 In a previous statement during this session of the Human Rights Council, the Special Rapporteur on toxic waste, Mr. Tuncak, made clear recommendations, based on the manifest deficiency of national regulation on transnational corporates in Brazil, calling for independent investigations into abuses of power […]
Continue readingCETIM, UDAPT and FORUM NOBIS denounce Chevron’s attacks against victims’ defenders in the United States and Ecuador. Following the report submitted by the three organizations, the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders urges the US government to act.
Continue readingAmong the most critical and illuminating background facts is that internal Chevron documents have revealed that as early as 2009, Chevron recognized that it was likely to face a significant adverse environmental judgment and appears to have decided to respond with what its own operatives referred to as a “L-T [long-term] strategy to demonize” the […]
Continue readingThese critical reports are available for free download The critical reports review some of the main current issues and debates on human rights at the international level. There are available in three languages (English, French and Spanish). You can freely consult or download the 12 critical reports published to date using the links below. 2013 […]
Continue readingIn 26 years of oil drilling in the Amazon region of Ecuador, Chevron (formerly Texaco) polluted more than 450,000 hectares of one of the planet’s richest biodiversity regions, destroying the living and subsistence of its inhabitants. After 21 years of litigation, and despite a ruling by the Ecuadorian courts, impunity continues for Chevron, and the victims of its activities in Ecuador are still waiting for justice and compensation.
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