Cuba Reaffirms Commitment to Human Rights

HAVANA, Cuba, Dec. 11 (acn) Cuba reaffirmed on Thursday in Geneva, Switzerland, on the occasion of Human Rights Day, its commitment to the enjoyment of the basic and inalienable rights of all human beings.

"The triumph of the Revolution in January 1959 allowed the people to achieve true independence and full and universal enjoyment of all rights for all," stressed by way of a communiqué the permanent mission of the island to the Office of the United Nations based in the Swiss capital.
"Cuba managed to reach very high human development, according to the report presented in 2014 by the UN on this issue, which positions the Caribbean country in 44th place globally among 187 nations," highlights the text.
The diplomatic delegation stressed that it was achieved despite the still existing policy of economic, commercial and financial blockade imposed by the United States for more than five decades .
"The consolidation of free health systems and education within everyone's reach, the full achievement of gender equality and environmental protection, are part of a state policy that allows the enjoyment of human rights for all Cubans," underlines the communique.
Also, it emphasized, institutional racism has been eradicated and the island struggles to ensure full and effective equality of opportunity. In Cuba, the political system guarantees the entire population and the more than 2,200 civil society organizations, wide-ranging powers and capacity of organization, consultation, opinion and decision, in the exercise of genuine participatory democracy instituted in the existing constitutional order, it points out.
The diplomatic mission stressed that as an active member of the Human Rights Council, the island has maintained a strong commitment to the implementation of a more just and equitable human rights system.
This materialized in the presentation of resolutions aimed at defending basic human rights such as food, international solidarity, culture and peace, among others; and in its cooperation with the mechanisms applied on universal and non-discriminatory basis, it specifies.
The text ratifies that Cuba will continue perfecting its socialist system endorsed and built by its people in order to move towards a more just, free, independent, supportive, equitable and productive society.
Cubans will continue defending their rights to self-determination, development, peace and a just, democratic and equitable international order, it asserts.
"A better world in which freedom, solidarity and peace are enjoyed by all is possible and Cuba will not cease in its struggle for these ideals," concludes the text.