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Around the world, Glencore’s greed rhymes with death

MOBILIZATION FOR THE WORLD DAY AGAINST GLENCORE Location: Théâtre Casino Zoug, Artherstrasse 2-4, Zoug (Canton Zug – Switzerland) Date: May 28, 2025 Time: 11:00 a.m.-1:30 p.m. Glencore is one of the largest mining companies in the world, extracting coal, cobalt, copper, crude oil and other minerals and metals from more than 35 countries [1]. Far […]

Philippines: Progress and new challenges in land struggles

On the occasion of the International Day of Peasant’s Struggles, CETIM has signed this joint declaration by several peasant and international solidarity organizations. April 17, 2025 Today, we join hands with peasants, landless rural workers, small-scale food producers, Indigenous Peoples, and other peoples working in rural areas around the world to mark the International Day […]

WEBINAR: Rural struggles in action! UNDROP’s rights holders fight for sustainable and just food systems

WEBINAR RURAL STRUGGLES IN ACTION! UNDROP’s rights holders fight for sustainable and just food systems Where? Online. Link: click here for the Zoom link When? Tuesday, May 6, 2025, 2.30pm CEST Since its creation, the website “Defending Peasants’ Rights. Platform of Rural Struggles in Action!” has organized an annual webinar open to the general public. […]

Congo: demand for strategic metals from northern countries amplifies the war

HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL 58th session February 24 – April 4, 2025 [Excerpt from the statement] The war in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has intensified, causing the death of several thousand civilians. This dramatic escalation is the direct result of a growing demand for strategic metals from the countries of the North, which […]

Morocco: The Struggle for the Respect of the Right to Strike in the Agricultural Sector

PRESS RELEASE Geneva, 18th March 2025 – The National Federation of the Agricultural Sector (FNSA, Morocco) and CETIM have filed a complaint with international human rights protection mechanisms to denounce the consequences of Law 97-15. This law, adopted by the Moroccan Parliament on 5th February 2025, imposes heavy restrictions on the right to strike, particularly […]

Chile: Violations of the Rights of the Mapuche Raised Again at the UN

PRESS RELEASE Chile: Violations of the Mapuche People’s Right to Self-Determination Raised Again at the UN Geneva, Santiago de Chile, 25.03.2025 On 20 March 2025, during the 58th session of the UN Human Rights Council, Hector Llaitul Carrillanca, a Mapuche community member currently imprisoned, through his lawyer Alberto Espinoza and with the support of CETIM, […]

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Violations of the rights of the Mapuche people in Chile

HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL 58th session 24 February – 04 April 2025 [Extract from the statement] “The Mapuche people have historically been subjected to a systematic and widespread policy of persecution, discrimination, racism and criminalisation, due to their resistance to domination and their sustained struggle over time for their territory, culture and cosmovision.” Read CETIM’s oral […]

Towards a social food insurance?

HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL 58th session 24 February – 04 April 2025 [Extract from the declaration] ‘Faced with an international financial system that hinders the ability of governments to guarantee the right to food and protects the interests of agribusiness and speculative financial institutions, a change of course is needed. As the report points out, this […]

A treaty on TNCs at the service of the people

HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL 58th session 24 February – 4 April 2025 [Excerpt from the statement] ‘In recent years, we have witnessed a strategy of diversion and manoeuvring on the part of the Chair of the said Working Group, which is under the sway of the TNC lobbies and certain powerful States. Their aim is to […]