Human Rights
Some useful notes and links:
-
Cuba and Human
Rights, Official Statement, March 24, 2006
-
European Trade Union Solidarity Conference with Cuba and Latin America,
February 2006
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International Centre
for Prison Studies (King's College London), USA highest incarceration
rate in world -- Cuba eighth
-
Alana
Yu-lan Price and Jessica Leight, "OAS right to reject US
bullying of Cuba," Baltimore Sun Op/Ed, June 17, 2003
- IFCO/Pastors
for Peace, "IFCO Condemns US Provocations against Cuba,"
April 23, 2003
- Mythily
Sivaraman, "Cuba, America and democracy," The Hindu, July
26, 2002
-
Wayne
S. Smith, Anya K. Landau, "Is Cuba a Terrorist
Nation?" Center for International Policy, October 11, 2001
- David E. Sanger,
"White House on Autocrats: Malaysian Sí, Cuban No," New York
Times, May 14, 2002
- William
Blum, "The United States, Cuba and this thing called
democracy"
- Robert Windrem,
"CIA: Most Cubans loyal to homeland," NBC News, April 12,
2000
- Kofi
Annan, UN Secretary General, "A poor country does not have
to leave its population defenseless," Granma International,
April 19, 2000
- American Association
of Jurists, "US exclusion from UNHRC deserved"
- Gloria
La Riva, West Coast Co-ordinator of IAC,
"U.S. is no. 1 violator of human rights," May 1, 2000
- The U.S. propaganda
machine
-
Greg Gourley, "The Truth of Cuban Immigration
to America," New Americans of Washington,
2002
- What is the REAL
purpose of the US embargo on Cuba?--Not democracy or human rights
- How much public
support does the Cuban dissident movement have?
-
Jonathon
Silberman, "Librarians answer smear campaign against Cuban government,"
The Militant, June 2006
- U.S.
Librarians on "independent" libraries in Cuba
- Testimony of U.S.
librarians visiting Cuba
- Why are Cubans excluded
from tourist facilities?
- Mike
Hemmings, "Democracy and Trade Unions in Cuba,"
Cuba Si (the magazine), Winter Edition 1997-98, p. 23
-
Cuban
unions: "Report of the US delegation to the 2001 meeting
of Cuban and American Trade Union Lawyers," National Lawyers Guild
Labor and Employment Committee and the U.S. Health Care Trade Union
Committee
- Race Relations in
Cuba
- Karen Lee Wald,
"Human Rights and Power Politics," April 20, 2001
- Radio Havana Cuba,
"Washington Repays Montevideo for Anti-Cuba Position in Geneva, June
1, 2002 (with follow-up confirmation)
- Prof. Jill Soffiyah
Elijah, Harvard Law School, "Cuban prisons more humane
than in US"
- Karen Lee Wald,
"The truth some don't want to know," April 23, 2001
Analysis of Reports by Amnesty International
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