Cuba was elected member of two permanent commissions of the United Nations
It will be a member of the Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice until 2027 and the Commission on Social Development until 2029
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Cuba was elected yesterday as a full member, by acclamation, of the Commission on Social Development and the Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice, both of the United Nations.
This was announced on the social network X by Party Political Bureau member and Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla, who stressed that “this election is evidence of the international recognition of our country’s work in these areas.”
The Cubaminrex website explained that, as a member of the Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice, the island will actively contribute to global efforts to combat national and transnational crime, and its membership expires in 2027.
It will be a member of the Commission on Social Development until 2029, and will participate in addressing major current global challenges, such as the elimination of poverty, the reduction of inequality and the protection of the environment.
Díaz-Canel presided over the ceremony of awards given by the UJC to outstanding centers of the country in production and services, and to young people with an exemplary trajectory
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“We know ourselves to be the present and future of a work that continues to open roads to social justice, love and happiness. You are the face of a generation that assumes continuity as its main breath. Your work inspires and engages”.
Thus congratulated the young people with outstanding merits, Meyvi Estévez Echeverría, second secretary of the Young Communist League (UJC), at the solemn ceremony of awarding decorations of the organization, which was attended by Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Party and President of the Republic.
Ten outstanding centers throughout the country, in production and services, received the Flag of Honor, which is the highest award given by the National Bureau of the UJC to youth groups from all sectors of the nation.
The Julio Antonio Mella Order was also awarded to eight young people with an exemplary trajectory and with extraordinary merits achieved in study, creative work and in the defense of the interests of the new generations.
During the ceremony, the Abel Santamaría Medal was also awarded to 31 outstanding workers, and the José Antonio Echeverría Medal to nine students with outstanding conditions in study and teaching research, and an exemplary attitude.
The ceremony, which took place a few hours before April 4 -the 62nd anniversary of the UJC and the 63rd of the José Martí Pioneers Organization (OPJM)-, was also attended by Roberto Morales Ojeda, member of the Political Bureau and Secretary of Organization of the Central Committee of the Party; as well as other members of the Political Bureau, the State and the Government. The Commander of the Rebel Army, José Ramón Machado Ventura, was especially present at the tribute.
UN experts qualify the blockade as a violation of human rights
The government of Washington has not yet responded to the interpellations received from the Human Rights Council
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The U.S. blockade against Cuba has been qualified as a serious violation of International Law. This was made known by the special rapporteurs of the United Nations Human Rights Council on the Right to Food, the Right to Development, Extreme Poverty and the Negative Impact of Unilateral Coercive Measures on the Enjoyment of Human Rights.
In an unprecedented communication, quoted by the Cuban Foreign Ministry, they point out the aggravation caused by the inclusion of the Island in the list of countries sponsoring terrorism, which also undermines the principle of non-intervention in internal affairs, the principle of sovereign equality of States, and the obligation to settle disputes by peaceful means.
According to the communiqué, once the 60-day privacy period for this type of information has expired, the joint letter sent in January to the U.S. Government by the experts has been made public, who affirm that the unilateral coercive measures applied against Cuba are serious violations of the human rights of the Cuban people, including their right to life, to food, to the highest possible level of health, to live without poverty, without discrimination and the archipelago’s right to its development.
The serious consequences of restricting Cuba’s access to financing for agricultural and rural development programs, and for the rehabilitation and modernization of agricultural equipment and infrastructure, are also denounced.
Washington has not yet responded to the interpellations received from the Human Rights Council.
“As long as the Palestinian land continues to be martyred, bled, destroyed to its foundations by the hatred of the Israeli occupier, we cannot tire of denouncing the crime and calling on the international community,” said the First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Party and President of the Republic, Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez
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“As long as the Palestinian land continues to be martyred, bled, destroyed to its foundations by the hatred of the Israeli occupier, we cannot tire of denouncing the crime and summoning the international community”, expressed in X the First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Party and President of the Republic, Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez.
The Head of State, on behalf of Cuba, on the Palestinian Land Day, joined his voice to that of the whole world that demands the cessation of genocide in the Gaza Strip.
Solidarity was experienced in the gardens of the Cuban Institute of Friendship with the Peoples; with the brush of outstanding artists in a mural painting, outside the Guido Fuentes basic secondary school, in Vedado; in the Jaramillo Productive Pole Local Development Project, in the Havana municipality of La Lisa, in which peasant women, together with their families, demanded peace in that suffering land, which since last October 7 is a victim of Zionist barbarism.
Convened by the Cuban chapter of the World March of Women, the women producers waited for 12 noon to join their voices in solidarity with other actions carried out in the world at that very moment, and denounce the crime against humanity committed by the Israeli government.
“We have to denounce, in every possible way, this horrendous crime,” said Gerardo Hernández Nordelo, National Coordinator of the Committees for the Defense of the Revolution.
Palestinian students in Cuba participated in the just claim.
