Press releases

The Human Rights Council acts against impunity of transnational corporations!

Historic: the Human Rights Council decides to launch negotiations on new binding international norms concerning the human rights responsibilities of TNCs!

Peasants’ Rights on Track in spite of the Opposition of the United States and the European Union

Geneva, 26 July 2013 – The United Nations Human Rights Council’s Open Intergovernmental Working Group has begun a first reading of the draft of the Declaration on the Rights of Peasants. The CETIM welcomes the support accorded this process by the overwhelming majority of member states.

Bolivia’s president sequestered in Europe Letter of support to the anti-imperialist Summit in Bolivia

Geneva, 30 July 2013 – CETIM wishes to express its solidarity with the Bolivian people and with their President, Evo Morales, following his sequestration in Europe on 2 July 2013.

Forum on Business and Human Rights What’s behind the Big Show at the UN?

Geneva, 3 December 2012- For some three decades, we have been witness to the increasing power of transnational corporations (TNCs).

Toward the adoption by the United Nations of an international declaration on the right of peasants and other persons living in rural areas !

Geneva, 1st September 2012 – It is with immense satisfaction that the small-scale farmers union Uniterre, representing in Switzerland the international peasants movement La Vía Compesina, and its partners in this undertaking, the Europe – Third World Centre (CETIM) and FIAN Switzerland, announce that the Human Rights Council has deemed it necessary to better protect […]

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