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Mar
17
2025

Ambassador Rodolfo Benítez Verson speaks in the debate on ‘promotion and protection of all human rights, civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights, including the right to development’. 58th Human Rights Council.

The countries of the South continue to disproportionately bear the combined burden of the unjust international financial architecture, climate adaptation, ever-increasing external debt, and the inherent challenges of sustainable development, which will remain a utopia without profound changes to the current world order.

Mar
14
2025

Third Secretary Roberto Soto Martínez, speaks during the dialogue with the Special Rapporteur on the right to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment. 58th Human Rights Council.

It is an undeniable fact that humanity and the planet are enduring irreversible damage due to climate change, desertification, pollution, and the loss of biodiversity.

It is imperative that industrialized countries fulfill their commitments to climate financing, the provision of means of enforcement, and the operationalization of the Loss and Damage Fund.

Mar
13
2025

Cuba denounces global setback in the implementation of the right to food and proposes solutions to address the serious food crisis.

Ambassador Rodolfo Benítez warned of the serious setback in the implementation of the goal agreed in the 2030 Agenda to eliminate hunger. He stressed that achieving Zero Hunger requires coordinated global actions, including the reform of the international financial architecture; the cancellation of foreign debt; the elimination of unilateral coercive measures; the fulfillment of Official Development Assistance commitments and the granting of special and differential treatment to developing countries in trade matters.

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