URGENT RESOLUTION ON CUBA - 38th FIDH Congress

URGENT RESOLUTION ON CUBA
Last Update 30 May 2013
38th FIDH Congress
23-27 mai 2013
Istanbul (Turkey)

PROPOSED BY THE CUBAN COMMISSION FOR HUMAN RIGHTS AND NATIONAL
RECONCILIATION

« On civil and political rights in Cuba »

1. Although the situation of economic, social and cultural rights in
Cuba has been less bad under the present government, which has been in
power for 54 years, there has been no improvement in civil and political
rights. The situation obtaining in Cuba could even be considered as the
worst situation in all of Latin America since the civil and political
rights have been reduced.
2. The 38th Congress takes note of the recent amendments to the law and
administrative practices, which have encouraged, inter alia, greater job
opportunities for independent workers. The measures have also made it
possible for dozens of human rights defenders and pro-democracy
activists to leave and return to the country, e.g. The representative of
the CCDHRN (the Cuban Commission for Human Rights and National
Reconciliation), who had not been authorised to leave the country for
eleven years.
3. We encourage the Cuban Government to ratify, without delay, the
International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the U.N.
Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, signed five years ago,
to take the necessary steps to guarantee their implementation on the
Island and to reinstate the abolition of the death penalty, in keeping
with the spirit of the 1940 Constitution.
4. We also encourage the Cuban Government to agree to cooperate with the
ICRC and other NGOS that work on human rights and wish to send missions
with pre-established goals, and with the United Nations Special and
Thematic Rapporteurs.
5. We encourage all parties in contact with the Cuban Government,
especially the European Union, to prioritise the very fundamental
question of human rights in their bilateral discussions with the
government."

http://www.fidh.org/urgent-resolution-on-cuba-13332