In the following pages, you will find CETIM’s English declarations to the UN on the theme of economic, social and cultural rights
I. Our planet is wrapped in a thick weft of international, regional and bilateral economic and financial agreements and treaties that have subordinated or taken the place of the basic tools of international and national human rights law (including the right to a safe environment), national Constitutions, economic legislation directed to national development and labour […]
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A. WHAT IS THE RIGHT TO DEVELOPMENT? I. Development 1) Development must be a global process with mankind as its main focus and with the achievement of mankind’s personal potential (physical, intellectual, moral and cultural) within the community as its main aim; 2) The aforementioned process requires the active and conscious participation of individuals and […]
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A. The capacity of the States to submit communications 1. In paragraph 14 of the document (E/CN.4/1997/105), the Committee reports that it has decided not to recommend the inclusion of an inter-State complaints procedure within the proposed optional protocol. 2. Excluding this procedure without valid reasons is counter to the approach taken in the International […]
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Good Governance: Conceptual Vagueness, Ideological Clearness 1. Since the beginning of the 1990s, the major international organizations, first and foremost among them International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank, have been lavishing upon their member countries recommendations for “good governance”. However, the definitions of this term and, along with them, its substance, have varied […]
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1. The US embargo against Cuba is condemned by an ever larger and by now overwhelming majority of states members of the United Nations General Assembly. However, it continues to be imposed by the US government’s isolated but stubborn will, in spite of the United Nations repeated injunctions, notably its resolution 56/9 of the 7th […]
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