«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
HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL 46th session Five years after the peace accords, 250 signatories and 1,139 social leaders have been assassinated, most of them peasants, indigenous and black communities, which indicates that in Colombia, a social leader is assassinated every 41 hours. HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL 45th session Alarmed by information from our partners on the ground, a coalition of international and Latin American NGOs, of which CETIM is a member, recalled the worrying political situation in the country and urged the de facto government to put an end to the abuses and to guarantee access to justice […] HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL 45th session CETIM and the Movement in Defense of Water, Land and Environmental Protection (MODATIMA), an active movement in defense of the right to water in Chile, collaborated in the framework of the 45th session of the UN Human Rights Council to denounce the violations of the right to water in the […] HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL 44th Session [Excerpt from the declaration] CETIM is pleased to note that the analyses of Mr. Pūras are in line with ours, developed over many years on this fundamental right. As the Rapporteur rightly points out, it is essential today to identify the major determinants of physical and mental health in poverty […] HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL 44th session [Excerpt from the declaration] CETIM is deeply concerned about the causes of poverty: a multidimensional problem that cuts across all human rights issues. It is indeed essential to tackle poverty well beyond the simple lack of monetary resources. Poverty encompasses the lack of access to health care, decent housing, sufficient […]
Presentation of the report of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights of Colombia
Elections in Bolivia: human rights violations and political persecution
The systematic violation of the right to water in Chile
The Right to Physical and Mental Health: The Primary Health Care Approach
Poverty: a violation of human rights
