Press Release: Cuba reiterates its firm support to the just claims of the indigenous peoples.
New York, 24 April 2017. As part of the 16th session of the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, the Deputy Permanent Representative of Cuba to the United Nations, Ambassador Ana Silvia Rodríguez Abascal, expressed today that ten years after the adoption of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, and despite the goals achieved, many indigenous communities around the world still face situations of violence, racism, marginalization, major economic and social disadvantages, extreme poverty and plunder of their lands.




