Cuba celebrated Human Rights Day

HAVANA, Cuba, Dec 10 (ACN) Cuba celebrated Human Rights Day with clear-cut achievements in the promotion and protection of human rights for all its citizens despite the challenges posed by the U.S. blockade.

Seventy-five years after the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the country bolsters its legislation and guarantees the full exercise of the essential principles laid down in a UN document that enshrines rights deemed essential to any society and, especially, to Cuba, said Anayansi Rodríguez, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs.

She recalled that the Cuban Constitution endorses the pursuance of full social justice for all and extols human dignity as a fundamental right and premise in the construction of its socialist system.

“This ensures overall prosperity and social justice in society from an institutional viewpoint, but also in the way said rights are exercised in practice,” she stressed, “in terms of political, civil, economic, social and cultural rights, including the rights to development, to peace and to life, which are continuously and flagrantly denied to other nations.”

The official pointed out that Cuba's election this year to the United Nations Human Rights Council (HRC), for the sixth time, is in line with the island’s results in these matters and stands as recognition of its efforts to promote and protect human rights in Cuba and elsewhere through solidarity.

“Cuba’s contributions to the HRC with initiatives related to the right to peace, food and development from the Non-Aligned Movement are appreciated by the international community,” she added, “in the midst of a complex economic situation marked by an unprecedented reinforcement of the U.S. blockade as part of the fifth-generation war against the country.”