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Jun

27

2025

U.S. Pressure and Coercion Impose Mercenary on the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights of the OAS

Havana, 27 June 2025. For months, the U.S. Secretary of State led an aggressive campaign aimed at installing a prominent member on Washington’s payroll—an outspoken supporter of the blockade and aggression against Cuba—as an allegedly impartial human rights expert.

Despite the dignified, courageous, and legitimate stance taken by numerous governments across Latin America and the Caribbean, intense pressure and threats—among them the blackmailing of states with potential cuts to U.S.-funded cooperation programs in the hemisphere—ultimately resulted in the narrow election of the well-known mercenary Ms. Rosa María Payá Acevedo as a Commissioner of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR).

Jun

26

2025

President of the Cuban Institute of Music participates in Belgium in celebration of the results of the Transcultura Programme

Brussels, 26 June 2025. The President of the Cuban Institute of Music, Indira Fajardo, took part in Brussels in the commemorative event marking five years of implementation of the Transcultura Programme, an initiative led by UNESCO with the support of the European Union to strengthen cultural ties between Cuba, the Caribbean and Europe.

In her address, Fajardo highlighted Cuba’s vision of culture as a driver of development and cooperation, recalling the words of José Martí: “Culture saves us”. She noted that, from the outset, Cuba took an active role in the Programme through the Ministry of Culture and the Office of the Historian of Havana, prioritising capacity building for young artists and entrepreneurs, supporting their professional development, and restoring the Convent of Santa Clara as a cultural space.

Jun

25

2025

The U.S. blockade against Cuba is also an obstacle to the implementation of the Global Convention on Higher Education

Paris, 25 June 2024. The second session of the Intergovernmental Conference of States Parties to the Global Convention on the Recognition of Qualifications concerning Higher Education, held throughout 24 June, was also a setting in which the Permanent Delegation of Cuba to UNESCO denounced the consequences of the tightened economic, commercial and financial blockade imposed by the Government of the United States on the Caribbean nation.

Cuba’s representative at the meeting, Third Secretary Laura Alvarez Delgado, not only outlined the steps taken at the national level to implement this global convention —with Cuba being a pioneer State in the adoption of both the global and the regional instruments— but also highlighted global challenges to its advancement, such as war, the indiscriminate use of force, and the imposition of unilateral coercive measures.

Jun

24

2025

Active participation of Cuba in the Second Intergovernmental Conference of States Parties to the Global Convention on the Recognition of Qualifications concerning Higher Education

Paris, 24 June 2025. The Delegation of Cuba to UNESCO played an active role in the second session of the Intergovernmental Conference of States Parties to the Global Convention on the Recognition of Qualifications concerning Higher Education, held at the Organization’s Headquarters.

The Cuban delegation called for strengthening support to the Secretariat to promote ratifications, build institutional capacities and foster international cooperation. It also highlighted the barriers posed by the economic, commercial and financial blockade imposed on Cuba by the Government of the United States, which limits access to platforms and increases the cost of academic mobility.

Jun

24

2025

Active participation of Cuba in the Second Intergovernmental Conference of States Parties to the Global Convention on the Recognition of Qualifications concerning Higher Education

Paris, 24 June 2025. The Delegation of Cuba to UNESCO played an active role in the second session of the Intergovernmental Conference of States Parties to the Global Convention on the Recognition of Qualifications concerning Higher Education, held at the Organization’s Headquarters.

The Cuban delegation called for strengthening support to the Secretariat to promote ratifications, build institutional capacities and foster international cooperation. It also highlighted the barriers posed by the economic, commercial and financial blockade imposed on Cuba by the Government of the United States, which limits access to platforms and increases the cost of academic mobility.

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