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

When UN Experts Denounce the Criminalization of Peasant Struggles in France

Paris, Geneva, January 29, 2026. The Confédération Paysanne (Peasant Confederation) and CETIM welcome the position paper published on January 26 by several United Nations human rights experts*. These experts express their deep concern regarding the use of mass arrests, the criminalization of social movements, and the prosecution of peasants and union leaders in France. This […]

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PRESS RELEASE – Condemnation of the EU-MERCOSUR agreement and the criminalization of peasant struggles

PRESS RELEASE Solidarity with peasants in struggle No to the European Union–MERCOSUR agreement! No to the unjust slaughter of herds in France! Geneva, 9 January 2026. CETIM expresses its firm solidarity with peasants’ organizations and communities mobilized across Europe against the European Union–MERCOSUR agreement. On Friday, 9 January 2026, the agreement in question was formally […]

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UN urged to counter criminalization of solidarity with Palestine

PRESS RELEASE Geneva, Paris, June 5, 2025 Urgence Palestine, CETIM and their partners submit a petition to the UN Human Rights Mechanisms regarding the criminalization of solidarity with Palestine in France and the risk of dissolution of the organization “Urgence Palestine”. In a notification dated April 29, 2025, the French government, through the Ministry of […]

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Peasant mobilisations in Europe

PRESS RELEASE Geneva, January 1st, 2024 – Neoliberal elites want rural populations to pay for the crisis and the “energy transition”. CETIM expresses its solidarity with the mobilisations of peasant organisations over the past weeks in several European countries (starting in Germany and spreading to France, Italy, Belgium, Greece, Romania and Poland, among others). The main […]

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