Committee for the Abolition of Third World Debt
CADTM

60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights - 22th anniversary of the Declaration on the Right to Development

7th CADTM INTERNATIONAL SEMINAR ’DEBT AND HUMAN RIGHTS’

22 October 2008


DEBT AND HUMAN RIGHTS
60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948)

22th anniversary of the Declaration on the Right to Development (1986)

7th CADTM international seminar

On 4th and 5th December 2008

9.30-5, Belgian Senate (21 rue de Louvain)- Brussels

Thursday 4 December

Introduction, Olga Zrihen (Sénatrice) et Eric Toussaint (CADTM Belgique)

Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and Declaration on the Right to Development, Assassment and perspectives, Julie Duchatel (CETIM-Geneva) and Benoît Van Der Meerschen (Ligue belge des droits de l’Homme and IFHR)
Tribune d'ouverture

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Introduction Olga Zrihen (sénatrice)
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Introduction Eric Toussaint
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Benoît Van Der Meerschen FIDH LDH
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Julie Duchatel CETIM
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Débat
The rights of human beings and of nature vs environmental debt , Fernando Lopez (CADTM Ecuador) and Victor Nzuzi (NAD/CADTM Kinshasa)
Victor Nzuzi
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Victor Nzuzi (NAD/CADTM Kinshasa)
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Débat suite aux interventions de Fernando et Victor
The States’ right and duty to develop development policies: restore public control on natural resources, Luc Mukendi (CADTM Lubumbashi), Rock Nianga (CADTM/APASH Brazzaville) and Ibrahim Yacouba (RNDD Niger)
Luc et Ibrahim
PowerPoint - 32 kb
Présentation de Luc Mukendi
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Présentation d’Ibrahim Yacouba
Privatisation and adjustment, a violation of the right to food and to clean water, a representative of Via Campesina and Olivier De Schutter (UN Special Rapporteur on the right to food)
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Olivier De Schutter (ONU)
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Débat Souveraineté Alimentaire
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Débat suite à Intervention représentante Via Campesina
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Représentante Via Campesina
Women’s rights and WLM vs Washington Consensus, Denise Comanne (CADTM Belgium), Maria-Rosa Anchundia (Red de Mujeres Transformando la Economía - REMTE - and former member of the commission auditing Ecuador’s debt –CAIC)

Friday 5 December

The rights to free circulation and establishment vs the EU migration policies, France Arets (CRACPE), Selma Benkelifa (solicitor for Progress Law)

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France et Selma
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Débat Migrations
Indivisibility of human rights – presentation of a new way of filing a lawsuit, Florence Kroff (solicitor with FIAN Belgium) and Monique Weyl (solicitor with AIJD, Paris)
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FIAN Indivisibility of human rights
11.00- 12.45 :International financial Institutions and human rights, Eric Toussaint (CADTM Belgium)
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Eric T. BM et DH
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Débat BM et DH
PowerPoint - 68 kb
Présentation Banque mondiale en Power Point

What legal instruments can be used to enforce human rights ?


The States’ rights and obligations to their populations, Hugo Ruiz Diaz (lawyer, Paraguay), Ramiro Chimuris (solicitor, Uruguay)
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Ramiro Chimouris
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Hugo Ruiz Dias
Peoples’ actions, Emilie Atchaka ( CADD Bénin)
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Emilie Atchaka
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Débat suite à Ramiro et Emilie
Historic trial of corporations for their support to the apartheid regime in South Africa, Charles Abrahams (solicitor, South Africa)
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Charles Abrahams (EN)
The need to file a suit against the WB, Yann Queinnec, (lawyer with Sherpa, Paris)), Renaud Vivien (Solicitor, CADTM)
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Sherpa
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Renaud Vivien
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Débat
Synthesis and conclusion of the seminar, Claude Quemar (CADTM France)
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Synthèse Claude Quemar

Photos by Nicolas Sersiron, CADTM France

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