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Cuba highlights the importance of empowering women and girls through digital technology.

Geneva, Switzerland, July 11, 2025. Cuba actively participated in the interactive session on the empowerment of women and girls through digital technology, within the framework of the Information Society Summit.

This space fostered the exchange on the transformative role of technology in the lives of women and girls, as well as the promotion of women's leadership in the digital sphere and the inclusion of gender in global technology policies.

Cuba advances in digital transformation through priority and sustained actions in the midst of international restrictions.

Cuba's First Deputy Minister of Communications, Ernesto Rodríguez Hernández, participated in the High-Level Roundtable during the Summit on Information Societies together with other ministers and deputy ministers of the sector at the global level.

In his speech, he reaffirmed the island's commitment to inclusive and sustainable digital development, highlighting the multiple efforts and challenges Cuba is facing on the road to digital transformation.

CUBA DEFENDS THE FUNDAMENTAL ROLE OF THE UN CHARTER IN THE PROMOTION AND PROTECTION OF HUMAN RIGHTS.

In the framework of the 59th regular session of the Human Rights Council, Cuba highlighted the contributions of the Charter of the United Nations to international standards for the promotion and protection of human rights,

Speaking as one of the panelists at the event “80th Anniversary of the UN Charter”, Ambassador Rodolfo Benítez Verson, Permanent Representative of Cuba, emphasized that the relevance of the UN Charter in the field of human rights cannot be ignored or minimized in any way.

AMBASSADOR RODOLFO BENÍTEZ VERSON, PERMANENT REPRESENTATIVE OF CUBA, SPEAKS ON THE MILITARY ATTACKS BY THE UNITED STATES AND ISRAEL AGAINST THE ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF IRAN. PLENARY SESSION OF THE CONFERENCE ON DISARMAMENT.

The threat of direct aggression by the United States against the Islamic Republic of Iran, encouraged by the genocidal government of Israel, became a reality following the cowardly bombings of the Fordow, Natanz, and Isfahan nuclear facilities. We reiterate our full solidarity with the people and government of Iran.

Cuba condemns, in the strongest terms, these grave acts, which constitute a dangerous escalation of the conflict in the Middle East and a flagrant violation of the UN Charter and international law.

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