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Sep

22

2025

Ambassador Rodolfo Benítez Verson, Permanent Representative of Cuba, speaks during the interactive dialogue with the Fact-Finding Mission on the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela. 60th Human Rights Council.

If there is a genuine desire to contribute to the cause of human rights in Venezuela, the inhumane and illegal unilateral coercive measures imposed on the Venezuelan people, which seek to subjugate them through economic and political means in the most cruel manner, must cease immediately.

Sep

22

2025

Cuba leads debate in Human Rights Council on new actions to confront unilateral coercive measures

Geneva, 22 September 2025 — In the context of the current session of the Human Rights Council, the Permanent Mission of Cuba to the United Nations in Geneva organised an event, attended by numerous nations and representatives of civil society, to discuss possible new actions to be promoted in the Council to address unilateral coercive measures, given their growing impact on the violation of the human rights of millions of people around the world.

Sep

22

2025

Cuba condemns the political use of human rights to justify aggression and interference against Venezuela

‘If there is a genuine desire to contribute to the cause of human rights in Venezuela, there must be an immediate demand for an end to the inhumane and illegal unilateral coercive measures imposed on the Venezuelan people, which seek to subjugate them through economic and political means in the most cruel manner,’

Sep

19

2025

Cuba denounces the devastating impact of the US blockade at the Human Rights Council.

Geneva, 19 September 2025 — Cuban Ambassador Rodolfo Benítez Verson strongly condemned the economic, commercial and financial blockade imposed by the United States government against Cuba, describing it as a massive, flagrant and systematic violation of the human rights of the entire Cuban people.

The Cuban diplomat urged the Council to take note of the repeated calls by special procedures for an end to these unilateral coercive measures, which continue to be ignored by Washington.

Sep

19

2025

Statement by Ambassador Rodolfo Benítez Verson, Permanent Representative of Cuba, at the General Debate under agenda item 3. 60th Human Rights Council.

The inhumane and criminal economic, commercial and financial blockade imposed by the Government of the United States against Cuba, as has been emphasized by several Rapporteurs of the Human Rights Council, constitutes a massive, flagrant and systematic violation of the human rights of the entire Cuban population.

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