The blockade violates the right to health of the Cuban people
New York, 5 January 2021. Cuba is denied the right to purchase technologies, raw materials, reagents, diagnostic kits, medications, devices, equipment and spare parts necessary for the better performance of its public health system. Not having the right medication or technology to treat a disease, at the right time to save a life, causes patients and their families suffering and despair. That pain can never be quantified.
We are Cuba Viva, the country that resists and triumphs
Speech by Miguel Mario Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, President of the Republic of Cuba during the closure of the Ninth Legislature of the National Assembly of People’s Power’s Sixth Ordinary Period of Sessions, at the Convention Center, December 17, 2020, Year 62 of the Revolution
Dear Army General Raúl Castro Ruz and compañeros of the Historic Generation;
Compañero Esteban Lazo, President of the National Assembly of People’s Power and of the Council of State;
Deputies;
Washington slams Cuban medical cooperation
New York, 15 December 2020. The extraterritorial application of the United States blockade and the current hostile policy of Washington towards Cuba affect third countries. Thus, the U.S. government, with its decision of attacking Cuban medical cooperation, threatens the enjoyment of the right to health of millions of human beings, who have benefited from the work of Cuban doctors in different parts of the world.
Speech of Cuban President, Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, at the Climate Ambition Summit December 12, 2020
Excellencies;
Twenty eight years ago, in a brief and memorable speech, Commander in Chief Fidel Castro Ruz set off the alarms on the most serious danger facing the human species. Global acceptance of climate change took years in materializing and it is still partial, incomplete and distant from the urgent and articulated actions that this problem demands.
Cuba cooperates with United Nations human rights mechanisms
New York, 10 December 2020. Cuba has maintained a traditional relationship of cooperation with the United Nations human rights mechanisms that are applied on an objective and non-discriminatory basis. In 2018, it underwent the Universal Periodic Review for the third time. In addition, Cuba submitted reports to the Committee on Enforced Disappearances (CED) in 2017, the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) in 2018, and the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) in 2019.