«Il n‘y a pas un monde développé et un monde sous-développé, mais un seul monde mal développé»
In the following pages, you will find CETIM’s English declarations to the UN on the theme of economic, social and cultural rights
1. For over twenty years, the US embargo against Cuba has been condemned by an ever larger, and now overwhelming, majority of Member States of the United Nations General Assembly.1 In spite of the United Nations’ repeated injunctions,2 and in spite of accession to power of President Barack Obama, the embargo continues to be imposed […] HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL 22nd Session March 2013 Israel’s decision to boycott the UPR is a further illustration of its disregard for its international human rights obligations and its lack of commitment to international cooperation in the field of human rights, which is a duty of UN Member States. Israel’s refusal to submit to the review […] A. INTRODUCTION1 Despite the Peace Process undertaken by the Basque pro-independence movement in 2011, the violation of Human Rights against the citizens of the Basque Country continue. Those are consequence of the emergency situation adopted by the French and Spanish Governments to attack the pro-independence movement. The situation of the 606 prisoners currently detained in […] Mr. President, We welcome the report1 submitted by the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders and we share her concerns about the smear campaigns that target human rights defenders as, basically, defending human rights is a political act as Mahtma Gandhi and Nelson Mandela, among others, have taught to us. The written […] [During its sitting on 21 May 2012, the ECOSOC Committee on NGOs took note of the fact that the two-year suspension of the CETIM’s consultative status would end in July 2012. During the same sitting, Turkey (which had requested this sanction against the CETIM) declared that it would not oppose the restitution of its status […]
For the immediate and unconditional lifting of the embargo against Cuba
Israel and the Universal Periodic Review
Violation of Basque Political Prisoners’ Human Rights
Protection of human rights defenders
Violation of human rights of Kurdish people in Turkey
