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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.

Oct
06
2025

Ambassador Rodolfo Benítez Verson, Permanent Representative of Cuba, speaks in general comments on draft resolution L.24 Rev.1, titled 'Human Rights and Indigenous Peoples'. 60th Human Rights Council.

Cuba supports the defence, recognition and effective and full implementation of the rights of indigenous peoples, in accordance with the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, whose adoption in 2007 constituted a historic victory in the struggle of these peoples for their ancestral rights.

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