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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 […]

Displacement of the Afro-descendant population in Colombia

HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL Thirty-second session June 2016 [Excerpt from the statement]

Murder of Berta Cáceres

HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL 31st session 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 indigenous peoples and the […]

Towards an inclusive economy: rethinking growth to combat poverty

At the 56th session of the United Nations Human Rights Council, on Tuesday 2 July 2024, the UN Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty, Olivier De Schutter, presented his annual report on the subject. In this document, he presents his reflections aimed at deconstructing the deep roots of poverty and denouncing the dominant economic model which, […]

Argentina: Human right to health

HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL 35th session June 2017 [Excerpt from the statement] In this regard, we are alarmed by the health situation in the plains region of Argentina. Our partners from the Regional Assemblies of Fumigated Villages, the Network of Doctors of Fumigated Villages and the Association of Environmental Lawyers informed us of the harmful impacts […]

The role of La Via Campesina in the peace process in Colombia

HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL 34th session March 2018 [Excerpt from the statement] La Via Campesina played a very important role in the peace accords in Colombia. It has had the status of official observer on the issue of agrarian reform, a fundamental pillar to guarantee a lasting and comprehensive peace. Read the CETIM’s oral statement in […]

Impacts of unilateral coercive measures on human rights

HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL 42nd session September 2019 CETIM supports the initiative towards the elaboration of a UN Declaration on the negative impacts of unilateral coercive measures on human rights. Read the CETIM’s oral statement in Spanish Watch the video subtitled in English

Consideration of the report of Equatorial Guinea

HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL 42nd session September 2019 [Excerpt from the statement] The CETIM is concerned at the adoption of the UPR of Equatorial Guinea, in particular at the unspeakable violations of international human rights instruments and fundamental freedoms, facts that call into question the rule of law in the country. Read the CETIM’s oral statement […]