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Mar

13

2025

Ambassador Rodolfo Benítez Verson speaks at the dialogue on children and armed conflict. 58th Human Rights Council.

Cuba reaffirms its concern over the impact of armed conflict on children. The outlook is not positive.

While exorbitant resources are being squandered on weapons and conflicts continue to escalate, the world has stepped back three decades in the fight against extreme poverty. Child hunger has reached levels unseen since 2005. Over 450 million children worldwide live in or have fled conflict zones.

Mar

12

2025

Third Secretary Roberto Soto Martínez, speaks in the dialogue with the Special Representative of the Secretary General on violence against children. 58th Human Rights Council.

All Cuban children suffer the consequences of the economic blockade imposed by the United States.

It would only take the amount of money that Cuba is deprived of during 25 days of blockade to ensure, over the course of a year, the availability of essential medicines for all our patients, including children.

Mar

12

2025

Third Secretary Roberto Soto Martínez, speaks in the dialogue with the Special Rapporteur on the right to privacy. 58th Human Rights Council.

Cuba reiterates its concern over the violations of human rights and State sovereignty committed by certain governments, large companies, and technological clusters through increasing large-scale surveillance and interception of communications, and data collection and mining -the so-called Big Data- as well as the extraterritorial nature of these actions.

Mar

12

2025

Minister Counsellor Rebeca Hernández Toledano, speaks at the 353rd Governing Council, on the exchange of views with co-facilitators of the second world summit on social development".

While the international resources available to achieve these goals have been wholly insufficient, military spending has been increasing for nine consecutive years. All indications suggest that in the coming years, this expenditure will grow even more rapidly, to the detriment of peace and sustainable development.

A world order where over 400 million people remain unemployed and the number of young people who neither work nor study has raised to 260 million cannot be sustainable. Without progress towards full employment and decent work for all, poverty cannot be eradicated.

Mar

11

2025

Ambassador Rodolfo Benítez Verson speaks in the interactive dialogue with the Special Rapporteur on the defence of human rights while countering terrorism. 58th Human Rights Council.

Among the measures to reinforce the blockade applied against our country, the inclusion of Cuba on the unilateral and illegal list of alleged sponsors of terrorism stands out for its slanderous nature and the enormous economic and humanitarian damage it causes.

The US government knows very well that Cuba does not sponsor terrorism. It lies because it lacks political or ethical arguments to justify the economic war it imposes on us.

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