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Melik Özden

2023 – 414 pages

Pre-order the printed book for 25 CHF/euros OR click here to download a free PDF of the book ‘Economic, social and cultural rights: a legal lever in the fight for social justice’. At a time when the world’s multidimensional crisis is plunging billions of persons into poverty, when almost half of humanity is unable to satisfy their essential needs, even as inequalities continue to grow steadily, the fulfillment of economic, social and cultural rights is more than ever urgent.    

Coline Hubert

2019 – 200 pages

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Melik Özden

2016 – 112 pages

Multinationals with great economic and political power violate human rights, very often, with almost total impunity. These entities escape legal action. This publication  demonstrates the necessity and urgency of having a binding international instrument to sanction those multinationals responsible. CETIM’s publication also highlights how important it is to enable the victims to obtain compensation.

Maria Lucia Fattorelli. Traduit de l'espagnol par Julie Duchatel et Florian Rochat

2015 – 264 pages

A guide prepared with contributions from researchers and activists from around the world aimed at encouraging civil society campaigns for conducting Citizens Public Debt Audits based on transparency and the participation of society, in order to reveal the truth about the Debt System that subjugates most of the countries and their population.

Melik Özden

2014 – 102 pages

The recognition of the right to land, a historic demand by peasant movements throughout the world, is gaining momentum at the international level. This publication takes stock of this major issue of our times. It is the result of major research and inquiry, and the fruit of close collaboration with La Vía Campesina…

Melik Özden et Simon Brunschwig

2013 – 56 pages

Through cultural rights, it is not only the issue of cultural diversity and participation to cultural life that is addressed, but also access to scientific progress and education, the protection of intellectual property and academic liberty.

Melik Özden

2012 – 64 pages

Social security is a system of social services intended to counter risks and uncertainties that arise within society. A product of the industrial era and linked to employment, it was initially intended to respond to certain pressing needs, and to institutionalize solidarity within society lest individuals be obliged to depend on charity.

Melik Özden

2011 – 64 pages

The right to non-discrimination emanates from the general postulate of the equal dignity of human beings, which has been affirmed by the Charter of the United Nations and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights as well as by all international human rights instruments.

Melik Özden et Christophe Golay

2010 – 64 pages

This right is a pillar of contemporary international law. Since the entry into force of the UN in 1945, it has constituted the legal and political basis of the process of decolonization, which witnessed the birth of over 60 new states in the second half of the twentieth century.

Melik Özden

2009 – 64 pages

Education is very often seen as a means of attaining other objectives (such as a better job or increased earnings) and that education as a human right in and of itself is often lost sight of .

Melik Özden

2008 – 64 pages

Work is essential for everybody in the organization of contemporary society. It not only contributes to the formation of the individual, but it is also ne­cessary if one is to be able to support oneself and one’s family, make and keep social contacts and fulfill one’s duties .

Melik Özden

2007 – 48 pages

When one speaks of foreign (or external) debt, one is referring to the indebtedness of those countries called “Third World” countries (or the South), particularly since the nineteen sixties. While the amount of the debt was US$ 70 billion in 1970, in 35 years .

Melik Özden

2007 – 56 pages

Since the beginning of this new millennium, terms such as terrorist, terrorism, fight against terrorism, etc. are part of everyone’s daily life even if nobody knows exactly what is hidden behind such terms, or whether they are used adequately or not …

Melik Özden et Christophe Golay

2007 – 64 pages

The right to adequate housing is a universal right, recognized at the international level and in more than one hundred national constitutions throughout the world. It is a right recognized as valid for every individual person …

Melik Özden

2007 – 40 pages

The last decade has been marked by an unprecedented increase in inequal­ities and a spectacular growth of the gap between “developed” countries and those of the Third World as well as the growth of a gap within countries themselves …

Melik Özden

2007 – 48 pages

Although forbidden by international humanitarian law and defined by the Statute of Rome (the International Criminal Court) as a “crime against hu­manity” (art 7.2.d), forced displacements are still largely practiced in our time during armed conflict and in various …

Joint publication

2006 – 96 pages

This little guide is intended to serve as a support tool for such efforts and as a tool of popular education indented for social movements, citizen reds, Members of Parliament, jurists, economists and other rebels.

Melik Özden

2006 – 68 pages

At first glance, it might seem misplaced to speak of health as a right when ever increasing segments of the world’s population are witnessing a steady degradation in the state of their health, to the point where their very existence is threatened …

Melik Özden et François Ndagijimana

2006 – 40 pages

In paragraph 3 of the common preamble to the two International Conventions of Human Rights – the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights – the states parties acknowledge …

Melik Özden et Christophe Golay

2005 – 55 pages

The right to food is a human right. It is universal, acknowledged at the national, regional and international level, and applies to every person and group of persons. Currently, however, some 852 million persons throughout the world are seriously –and permanently– …