The Human Rights in Cuba

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The Human Rights in Cuba

• Team
• Yoshiko Quiyono
• Ana González
• Flor Chávez
• Rosario Mona
• Brenda Santos

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The human rights in Cuba are respected?
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Historical Background

• Spanish rule was severe and exploitative and
  occasional rebellions were harshly suppressed. It
  was US intervention during the Spanish-American
  War in 1898 that finally overthrew Spanish rule.
  The subsequent Treaty of Paris established Cuban
  independence, which was granted in 1902 after a
  three-year transition period. Fidel Castro led a
  rebel army to victory in 1959 his iron rule has
  held the regime together since then. Cuba's
  Communist revolution, with Soviet support, was
  exported throughout Latin America and Africa
  during the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s.
• Due to the communist ideas of Fidel Castro, the
  relations between US and Cuba were deteriorated
  and they stablished and embargo to Cuba.

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• In April the UN Commission on Human Rights passed
  a relatively mild resolution on human rights in
  Cuba. However, the resolution was supported by
  many Latin American countries and for the first
  time Mexico voted in favour, prompting a
  diplomatic row with Cuba. In November, for the
  11th consecutive year, the UN General Assembly
  passed a resolution calling on the USA to end its
  embargo.

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Violations ofHuman rights

• One of the most serious violations of human
  rights and that occurs in Cuba, is violation of
  the right to freedom of expression. Article IV of
  the American Declaration of the Rights and Duties
  of Man states that
• "Every person has the right to freedom of
  investigation, of opinion, and of the expression
  and dissemination of ideas, by any medium
  whatsoever.
• People is taken to prision because of their
  ideas goes against the 3rd article of the human
  rights declaration that talks about freedom and
  the article 9 that says that no one can be
  arrested without a good reason.
• People are not allowed to go out of Cuba whenever
  and wherever they want to, this goes agains the
  article 13 of the human rights declaration that
  says that everyone has the right to circulate
  freely and to have the decision of where they
  want to live.

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• Cuba retains the death penalty for several crimes
  and adopted it for two additional crimes in early
  1999. Human Rights Watch opposes capital
  punishment as an inherently cruel practice often
  carried out in a discriminatory manner.
• Cuban minors risk being forced to serve as
  soldiers. The Cuban armed forces conscript minors
  as young as sixteen.
• Cuba confines its sizable prison population under
  substandard and unhealthy conditions, where
  prisoners face physical and sexual abuse.
• The Cuban government exercises strict control
  over labor rights. Cuba not only bans independent
  labor groups and harasses persons attempting to
  form them but also factors criticism of the
  government into hiring and firing decisions. This
  goes against the article 23rd of the human rights
  declaration that talks about the freedom of
  everyone to choose thier own job, the right of a
  reasonable wage, etc.

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Causes

• Ignorance
• Fear
• Poverty
• Ditardorship of Castro

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Actors
Only party - Cuban Communist Party or PCC Fidel
Castro Ruz, first secretary
Amnesty International
UN
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Effects

• Ilegal emmigration to other countries
• People who are held in prison solely because
  their views are unacceptable to their Government.
  
• Deterioration in the relationships among another
  countries of the world. (ie US)

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Geographic Location
Location Caribbean, island between the Caribbean
Sea and the North Atlantic Ocean, 150 km south of
Key West, Florida. Coastline 3,735 km
important because of the imports and exports
world-wide.
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Recommendations

• Make new legal reforms to improve the human
  rights situation.
• Cease all prosecutions based on the individual's
  exercise of fundamental rights to free
  expression, association, and movement.
• Reform its Criminal Code, repealing or narrowing
  the definition of all crimes that are in
  violation of established international human
  rights norms and practices.
• Implement the Convention against Torture and
  Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or
  Punishment, by making torture a crime and
  investigating, prosecuting, and punishing all
  government officials who employ torture.
• Restructure its court system to establish
  judicial and prosecutorial independence.

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• investigate, prosecute, and punish officials
  responsible for human rights violations and
  should provide victims of abuses with effective
  remedies.
• permit international human rights organizations.
• abolish the death penalty
• cease the conscription of minors for service in
  its armed forces.

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Conclusion