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Oct
07
2025

Ambassador Rodolfo Benítez, Permanent Representative of Cuba, speaks at general comments on draft resolution L.20 Rev.1, entitled 'Preventable Maternal Mortality and Morbidity and Human Rights,' 60th Human Rights Council

Cuba has developed a universal, free, primary health care system, which has allowed us to sustain very favourable maternal indicators, despite adverse economic conditions and the negative impact of the criminal economic, commercial and financial blockade imposed by the United States government.

Oct
07
2025

Second Secretary Greisy Cordero Suárez, speaks on draft resolution l.28, titled 'Promotion and Protection of the Human Rights of Women and Children in Situations of Conflict and Post-Conflict.'

The world has witnessed the Zionist regime's torture of numerous members of the Global Sumud Flotilla, including young people, whose only crime was their decision to bring to Gaza the humanitarian aid that the Palestinian people need immediately and which continues to be denied to them by Israel.

Oct
06
2025

Ambassador Rodolfo Benítez Verson, Permanent Representative of Cuba, speaks at general comments on draft resolution L.8 "Mandate of the Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of slavery and human trafficking." 60th HRC

Cuba has a policy of zero tolerance for any contemporary form of slavery and any form of trafficking in persons, which is expressly prohibited by the Constitution of the Republic and other national laws. These are heinous crimes and a blatant violation of human rights, which our country firmly rejects.

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