Introduction
This document affords the reader the opportunity to get to know Cuba's position with respect to the spurious anti-Cuban maneuvers that the US government contrives each year at the Commission on Human Rights —pressuring and blackmailing nations in the crudest of fashions— in order to discredit Cuba’s exemplary achievements in the area of human rights.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS OF ALL PARTS OF WHITE BOOK 2006
FIRST PART
THE REDOUBLING OF THE GEORGE W. BUSH ADMINISTRATION’S HOSTILE POLICIES AND AGGRESSION TOWARDS THE CUBAN PEOPLE: A SERIOUS THREAT TO THE CUBAN PEOPLE’S HUMAN RIGHTS
Chapter 1: The US government’s hostility and aggression towards Cuba have reached dimensions unprecedented in the relationship between two states that are not at war.
Chapter 2: A new imperialist programme for subjugating the Cuban nation and recolonising the country.
Chapter 3: The support and/or impunity extended by successive US administrations to perpetrators of terrorist acts against Cuba.
Chapter 4: The human rights of 5 young Cuban anti-terrorist activists wrongly imprisoned in the United States, and those of their families, are grossly violated for spurious political motivations.
Chapter 5: The United States steps up the recruitment, financing and use of mercenaries in its attempt to undermine the right to self-determination of the Cuban people.
Chapter 6: US radio-electronic aggression against Cuba.
SECOND PART
ANTI-CUBAN MANOEUVRES IN THE HUMAN RIGHTS SPHERE: INVENTING A SPURIOUS PRETEXT TO JUSTIFY THE PERPETUATION OF THE UNITED STATES’ POLICY OF HOSTILITY, BLOCKADE AND AGGRESSION TOWARDS THE CUBAN PEOPLE
Chapter 1: In spite of the disapproval of the world’s peoples and many governments, the United States, as part of its anti-Cuban policy, repeatedly manipulates the work of the Commission on Human Rights.
Chapter 2: The intergovernmental processes of the United Nations human rights machinery have been hijacked by the United States and its close allies to use as tools for applying pressure to impose their policies of global domination.
Chapter 3: In spite of the unfair anti-Cuban manoeuvre imposed on the CHR, Cuba continues to honour its commitment to cooperate with all non-discriminatory mechanisms in the human rights field.
Annex 1. Statement by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Cuba, after the election of member of the Human Rights Council (9 May 2006).
Annex 2. Statement by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Cuba (28 February 2006).
THIRD PART
CUBA CONFRONTS ALL ADVERSITY AND THE EXTERNAL CHALLENGES IMPOSED UPON IT AND CONTINUES TO BUILD A MORE DEMOCRATIC, FAIR, PARTICIPATIVE AND EQUAL SOCIETY WHERE SOLIDARITY PREVAILS
Chapter 1: The democratic system the cuban people, exercising their sovereignty, have established.
Chapter 2: The guarantees Cuban domestic law provides for civil and political rights.
Chapter 3: Despite the problems and challenges, this has been one of the most productive years in the history of the Cuban Revolution.
Chapter 4: Education —a Revolution within a Revolution. Education, Culture and Sport at the service of all Cubans.
Chapter 5: A health care system that is increasingly effective, accessible and adapted to the needs of every Cuban.
Chapter 6: Converting prisons into real centres for education and human enhancement.
Chapter 7: Full employment and the guarantee of social assistance and security for all Cubans.
Chapter 8: Cuba shares the fruits of its efforts and resources with other peoples of the world, striving to make the principle of “all human rights for everyone” a reality.
FOURTH PART
US BLOCKADE ON CUBA: MASSIVE AND SYSTEMATIC VIOLATION OF THE CUBAN PEOPLE'S HUMAN RIGHTS
Chapter 1: New measures which step up the genocidal economic, trade and financial blockade on the Cuban people.
Chapter 2: Political manipulation on bilateral immigration relations at the hands of successive US administrations. President Bush attacks Cuban families and disallows already scarce academic, cultural and educational exchange between the US and Cuban peoples.
FIFTH PART
SERIOUS HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS PERPETRATED BY THE UNITED STATES, BEHIND THE SCENES OF ITS WAR ON INTERNATIONAL TERRORISM.
Chapter 1: A veritable "legal and moral black hole" in the area illegally occupied by the Guantánamo US Naval Base.
Chapter 2: The United States: The Bush administration intensifies the systematic and flagrant violation of human rights under the pretext of its so-called global war against terrorism.
