UN Rapporteur: Cuba Protects its People's Right to Food
CUBA , November 7, 2007.- United Nations´ Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food Jean Ziegler said that while 854 million people go hungry in the world, Cuba protects its people's right to food, despite the severe impact of the US economic blockade on the island.
Cuba and the Rights of People with Disabilities
CUBA, January 9, 2007.- The International Convention on the Rights of People with Disabilities, the first human rights treaty adopted during the 21st Century, was approved by 192 United Nations member nations last December.
According to the World Health Organization, approximately 650 million persons or 10 percent of the world's total population live with some kind of disability. The purpose of the Convention is to promote, protect and guarantee that those persons fully enjoy all human rights including: accessibility, freedom of movement, health, education, training, employment, recreation and rehabilitation, as well as participation in the political, cultural and sports activities.
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Cuba: 45 Years of Free Education
Havana, Jun 6, 2006. (Prensa Latina) Cuba has offered accessible, free education for all its citizens for 45 years, since on June 6, 1961, the revolutionary government decreed the Teaching Nationalization Law.
Two months after defeating the US invasion of Playa Giron (Bay of Pigs), the country ended the education system that served a privileged minority and brought real democracy to teaching.
The legislation declared teaching free and public, and that the State proclaims it a right of all Cubans.
Cuba Prioritizes Children, Mothers
Havana, Apr 18, 2006. (Prensa Latina) The relationship between children and parents is a priority in Cuba, from TV spots that encourage good parenting to a law that allows either parent to take up to a year on 60% salary to be with the newborn baby.
Later children go to a day care center until ready for kindergarten, and at any time before the child is 16 the law covers up to a six month absence from work without reprisal if a child becomes ill.
Even before a child is born it´s already high on the agenda and Gyn-Ob departments here have earned great recognition like the record-low infant mortality rate of 4.5 deaths for each 1,000 live births achieved by the Infant-Mother Program (PAMI) in the Cuban province of Holguin.
But that's nothing new, and Cuba usually scores best in regional infant mortality stats. Pediatrician Francisco Valdés was quoted in Granma International as saying "the island attained its 5.8 infant mortality rate per 1,000 live births in 2004, the lowest in Latin America, primarily due to mass and free vaccination campaigns dating back to the triumph of the Revolution in 1959."
Healthcare in Cuba is an Exception in the World
Taken from Radio Habana Cuba
April, 2006
Doctor Daniel Purcallas, sub-regional consultant of the Pan-American and World Health organizations PHO/WHO, told the press in Havana that globalization is causing great imbalances in healthcare as a result of a lack of human resources.
The United Nations expert stated that the most developed countries absorb the medical work force and that migration is eroding the levels of treatment and health conditions in the poorest countries.
Purcallas pointed to the movement of doctors and nurses from the area of the Caribbean towards North America and from the African continent to Europe.
Mental Healthcare in Cuba: A People's Right
Havana, March 31, 2006. (ACN) While in other countries psychiatric services are reserved for those people who can pay for private therapists, in Cuba mental health is a people's right.
The general secretary for the Psychiatric Association for Latin America and the Caribbean, Dr. Miguel Angel Valdez Mier, said that in the island's 169 municipalities there are qualified services being provided with the objective of offering a better quality of life for the public.
Valdez Mier highlighted the main achievements of Cuban psychiatry achieved following its revolution, mainly through primary assistance in communities with the cooperation of grass roots organizations.
The Psychiatric Association chief, who is also head of psychiatric services at Havana's Ameijeiras Brothers Hospital, participated in the First Regional Congress of the World Psychiatric Association held in the Cuban capital's International Convention Center, along with some 500 delegates from 20 nations.
Cuba demands justice, respect from CHR
By Bivan Saluseki
Taken from The Post/Zambia
February, 16, 2005
Cuba has demanded for justice and respect from the United Nations Commission for Human Rights (CHR). A statement released by the Cuban embassy in Lusaka stated that it was necessary to put an end to the political manipulation of the works of the CHR.
The statement comes ahead of the Commission's 61st session to take place in Geneva from March 14th to April 22, 2005. It stated that another resolution against Cuba would fuel the spiralling confrontation, polarization and political manipulation, which had been eroding the CHR's authority, increasingly undermined by selectivity and double standards...
Cuba, Human Rights and the UNHRC
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On Cuban soil, there are over 600 prisoners who are denied any semblance of human rights by their captors. They have been subjected to unlimited physical and psychological abuse and denied the right to see a lawyer, family member or anyone else for years on end.
They are imprisoned not by Cuba, but by the United States, at the Guantánamo naval base.
After the 2001 US invasion of Afghanistan, hundreds of men and boys as young as 12 were rounded up and shipped, blindfolded and bound, halfway around the world to Guantánamo. There they are warehoused in open-air cages, exposed to mosquitoes and the scorching sun, and denied all due process and protection under the Geneva Convention regarding prisoners of war...
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