«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 at the UN on the theme of impunity of transnational corporations
Mr. President, I am Henry Saragih, general coordinator of La Via Campesina. La Via Campesina is global movement and organisations of peasants based in many countries including in Senegal, India, Switzerland, France, Spain, Indonesia, Japan, Norway, Mali, and many more. We have about 200 millions member which participated actively in La Via Campesina. On behalf […] SEE THE INTRODUCTION IN THE FRENCH PAGE ! Mr President, We, peasants, women and men, of the International movement La Via Campesina, organised from 20 to 25 of June 2008 the International Conference on Peasant Rights in Jakarta, Indonesia. After seven years of intense discussions on the content and strategies, our spirits are high and […] The current crisis of agricultural raw materials severely affects the poorest peoples of our planet.1 Prices on the world market for cereals are rising for a year : wheat prices increased by 130%, rice 80% and maize 35%.2 This crisis has not one single cause. This current food crisis is the result of many years […] 1. On December 4th 1986, after several years of relentless work, the Declaration on the Right to Development was approved by the vast majority of States (146 out of 155 votes in favour, a dozen abstentions and one opposition, that of the United States of America.). This document, which clearly reaffirms the right of peoples […] The “ethanol partnership”, launched with great pomp and ceremony by the United States and Brazil on 9 March 2007, marks a new phase in the energy strategies of the great powers, just as does the decision by the European Union to replace 5.75% of it transport fuel from fossil sources with ethanol by 2010 and […]
Ending the discrimination against peasants
For a Convention on peasant rights !
To promote and strengthen the agricultural local and national economies: only effective way to fight against prices escalation of agricultural products and their shortage
The negotiations of the enlargement of ALBA offer a perspective of alternative regionalization to the neo liberal mondialization
Ethanol fuels are not a green energy and compete directly with the food needs of people!
