«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 the rights of peasants
EXPERT MECHANISM ON THE RIGHT TO DEVELOPMENT 10th Session 29 october 2024 [Excerpt from the declaration] The dominant trade and investment regime, mainly promoted and enforced by the WTO and other international organizations and instruments, has consistently harmed the world’s peasantry and thus the protection of biodiversity. Since 1995, the WTO Agreement on Agriculture has […] HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL 57th session (9 September 2024 – 11 October 2024) UNDROP: a key step towards social and climate justice At the occasion of the presentation of the first report of the newly appointed UN Experts’ Working Group on the rights of peasants and other people working in rural areas, CETIM, FIAN International and […] HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL 56th session July 2024 Since the social-political outbreak of December 2022, the CETIM has supported the Peruvian indigenous-peasant organisations – protagonists of the social protests – in their advocacy work within the UN human rights mechanisms. Read the CETIM’s oral statement in Spanish Watch the video subtitled in English HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL 55th session The country is faced with a social structure based on the power of criminal “gangs”. Since the 1980s, these armed groups have been instrumentalised by the political powers. Read the CETIM’s written statement HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL 55th session 26 February – 5 April 2024 Yasmeen El-Hasan, from the Union of Agricultural Work Committees (UAWC Palestine), makes a horrifying assessment of the situation in Gaza, stating that the Palestinians who have not died because of the bombs will have died because of famine, lack of water and lack of […]
A new trading system for biodiversity
Contribution to the new Working Group on peasants’ rights
Peru: criminalisation of social protests continues
Human rights situation in Haiti
Israeli Occupation’s use of starvation as a weapon for genocide in Palestine
