«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
The South has already repaid its external debt to the North, but the North refuses to recognize its debts to the South1 1. Since the debt crisis, precipitated in 1979 by changes in US monetary policy in the form of a unilateral increase in interest rates of the Federal Reserve by Paul Adolph Volcker, the […] 1. Child labour has probably existed from the beginning of history1. But the establishment of the capitalist world system in the fifteenth century, and its consolidation, in the eighteenth and the nineteenth centuries, brought with it child labour on a large scale, both in the centre (wage earners) and in the periphery (various kinds of […] The right to life is under threat for the Kurdish people in Turkey There are conflicts all around us. Many rights are violated during these conflicts. Many do this in the name of power and sovereignty. States assume their power over society under the pretext of the general protection of populations and culture. For this […] I. Introduction The attempt to convert the main United Nations human rights body into an instrument of unilateral service for several powers, unrepresentative of the current diversity of the international community of states, has, fortunately, been thwarted by the vote of the 170 member states of the General Assembly that approved the creation of the […] I. THE DECISION TO ABOLISH THE COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS1 The United Nations “Summit” held in September 2005, approved in its Final Declaration to abolish the Commission on Human Rights and to replace it by a Council on Human Rights. The Council’s features are not defined in the Final Declaration, but the superpower and its […]
Developing countries’ external debt
In favour of the total prohibition of child labour and redistribution of wealth in the world
Report of the Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions
Remarks and opinions concerning the new Human Rights Council
Grave and imminent threats to the United Nations human rights system
