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Cuba Looks at Human Rights CUBA, December 10, 2008. Debates on the global financial and environmental crisis, state terrorism and war are to take place Wednesday in Cuba, as part of the International Workshop "The Universal Declaration of Human Rights: 60 Years Later." The event is sponsored by the Cuban and Venezuelan chapters of the Network of Networks "In Defense of Humanity" and the Cuban National Commission of the UN Education, Science and Culture Organization (UNESCO). The meeting will demand the closure of the Guantanamo Bay prison and that the territory be returned to Cuba, the lift of the US economic, financial and trade blockade of the island, and the release of five Cuban anti-terrorist fighters unfairly imprisoned in US prisons since 1998. Other issues in the forum´s agenda are the dangerous problems gripping today's world, in which the guarantee of human right for everyone, fully effective and indivisible, is still a need being postponed again and again, the workshop's organizing commission stated. "The current situation of human rights in the world: criticism to double standards policies and human rights manipulation," and "Human rights and solidarity: promotion and protection of all human rights for everyone," are also to be discussed. Topics like the right to life, peace, health, education, work, accusation to tortures and the condemnation to the manipulation of that theme, will be also under discussion.(Cubaminrex – PL) |