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The fight for public health for all in Madrid’s working-class neighborhoods

PRESS RELEASE Madrid, Geneva, 04.09.2024 – The Carabanchel People’s Assembly, together with CETIM, submitted a report to the UN human rights protection mechanisms to denounce the violations of the right to health due to the neglect and lack of professionals at the Abrantes Health Center and the resulting delays in healthcare services, as well as […]

Conference The Confederation of Sahel States: A Pan-African Renaissance?

In three years, three coups d’état will shake the Sahel In Mali in May 2021, in Burkina Faso in September 2022 and in Niger in July 2023, with considerable repercussions for the region as a whole, but also for the interests of the former colonial power. For the dominant media, these are ‘classic’ coups d’état, […]

Madrid-Geneva: 1600 km by bike to claim public health for all

At the end of July 2024, four activists from the Asemblea popular de Carabanchel left the working-class district of Carabanchel (Madrid) to claim public health systems, and in particular to demand that the number of doctors and paediatricians working in the district, as required by Spanish law, be respected. This battle against the inertia of […]

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Oral Statement on TNCs obligations and Human Rights

INTERGOVERNMENTAL WORKING GROUP ON TRANSNATIONAL CORPORATIONS 26 October 2016 [Excerpt from the statement] 23 years of litigation at national and international level and the victims and communities affected by Chevron-Texaco’s operations in Ecuador have still not achieved effective access to justice, as lawyer Pablo Fajardo said here yesterday. Syrian refugees working irregularly in Turkey for […]

Argentina

CETIM’s actions, with its partners in the field, in favour of the Argentinian people

Guatemala: the case of the communities of the municipalities of San Andres and La Libertad

HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL 21st session 10 – 28 September 2012 [Excerpt from the statement] The situation of the Indigenous Peoples living in the municipalities of San Andrés and La Libertad, department of Petén continues to be grave. These communities suffer frequent violations of their human rights, in particular their economic, social and cultural rights guaranteed […]

Well-being for PERENCO and repression for Petén communities

HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL 21st session 10-28 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 that department. However, […]

Tayrona indigenous peoples of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta (Colombia)

HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL 22nd session 25 February – 22 March 2013 [Excerpt from the statement] There are many mamos (traditional authorities) and other members of our communities who have been disappeared, killed or displaced for maintaining a position of neutrality towards all the legal and illegal armed groups that dispute our sacred territory. Blood has […]

El Salvador: Universal Periodic Review report

HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL 28th session March 2015 [Excerpt from the statement] We also recognise the positive role that the Government has played in preventing environmental deterioration and water pollution by not granting mining permits. An emblematic case is that of the Australian-based company Oceana Gold, which insists on its will to start a mining project […]