Value proposition

There is not a developed world and an underdeveloped world but a single world badly developed

“There is not a developed world and an underdeveloped world but a single world badly developed.” This conviction underpinned the founding of the CETIM in Geneva in 1970 as a center for study, research and information focused on the mechanisms at the origin of the world’s misdevelopment and interface between the social movements of the Global South and North.

A Publishing House Unlike Any Other

With more than 150 publications to its credit, the CETIM is a publishing house dealing with North-South relations and development questions from a critical, serious and original point of view rarely to be found in the mainstream media. These books aim to supply the general public with the tools needed to understand the world and the ways to transform it.

An Organization Active at the United Nations in Support of Social Movements

Enjoying consultative status with the ECOSOC, the CETIM supports social movements of the Global South in gaining access to the United Nations human rights protection mechanisms and participating in the drafting of new international human rights norms. It also carries out information and training work on human rights with its partners and the general public.

A Specialized Documentation Center

The CETIM includes a documentation center open to the public. With its 3,000 volumes and 200 periodicals by a vast range of authors, it concentrates on topics such as development, the environment, trade, foreign debt, food sovereignty, transnational corporations and human rights, among many others.

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