Cuba maintains its policy of "Zero Tolerance" to trafficking in persons and crimes related to sexual, labor or any other exploitation, by promoting measures of prevention, confrontation and severe punishment of perpetrators, as well as providing protection to victims.

Havana, Cuba, Apr 6 (acn) More than a dozen installations will compete for the National Conservation and Restoration Award to be granted on the 18 th, World Monument and Sites Day, according to the organizing committee.

The 2nd Provincial Conference of Social Sciences and Humanities is scheduled to begin June 20th until the 21st in Matanzas with debates on scientific materials like local development.

The 2nd Encounter on International Humanitarian Law kicked off on Wednesday in Havana with participants discussing the importance in the protection of people before situations of conflict and the respect its norms.

Workers from Omar Rosado Alonso artificial wood factory produced in the last 20 days of March more than 1,400 sugarcane bagasse panels for Azcuba Group, thus showing its stability after several years inactive.

Cuba recognizes in the desalination of sea water an alternative that comes to stay, amid the drought scenario the country has been going through for three years, officials of the National Institute of Water Resources (INRH by its Spanish acronym) said.

Cuban and Chilean business executives signed on Tuesday in Havana a contract of the International Economic Association to begin a feasible study on the extraction of iron and chromium in the area of Nicaro in the province of eastern Holguin.

A workshop on the training and information of older adults: volunteering, and lifelong education, will take place today in this capital in a world event that brings together over 200 delegates and guests from some 15 countries.

Cuban President Raul Castro assisted on Tuesday in Havana a political-cultural gala on the occasion of the 55th and 56th anniversaries of the Young Communist League (UJC) and the Jose Marti Pioneer Organization (OPJM) respectively.

Susely Morfa Gonzalez, member of the Council of State and First Secretary of the National Committee of the Young Communists League (UJC by its Spanish acronym), stressed in this city that the new generations will not fail and always maintain their joy, history and love for the country.

Our commitment to defending and advancing this immense project, the biggest legacy of Fidel, which is the Revolution, must be permanently reaffirmed, said the first secretary of the Young Communist League Susely Morfa.

The Cuban University Student Federation ratified its absolute support of the Bolivarian Revolution, reads a statement by the higher education students amidst the attacks staged by the Organization of America States, OAS, against Venezuela.

On the occasion of the 55 anniversary of the Cuban Youth Organization (UJC) and the 56th of the José Marti Pioneers Organization (OPJM) there were moments of reflection before the effigy of Che in the Revolution Square with his name.

The First Secretary of the Cuban Communist Party in Guantanamo characterized on Friday in that eastern city the work of the Cuban Association of Social Communicators (ACCS) as praiseworthy.

The American Company Royal Caribbean Cruise Line Ltd. -based in Miami, made today the first operation to Cuba destination with the arrival of the cruiser Azamara Quest to Havana bay.