Conference on the International Day of Human Rights

In order to celebrate the International Day of Human Rights, CADAL organized at the graduates college of Universidad de Belgrano in downtown Buenos Aires, a conference where Andrés Cañizalez and Ricardo Rojas analyzed the situation in Cuba and Venezuela, with comments in charge of Gabriel Palumbo and Gabriel Salvia.

In order to celebrate the International Day of Human Rights, CADAL organized at the graduates college of Universidad de Belgrano in downtown Buenos Aires, a conference where Andrés Cañizalez and Ricardo Rojas analyzed the situation in Cuba and Venezuela, with comments in charge of Gabriel Palumbo and Gabriel Salvia.

The opening of the conference was in charge of the journalist Fernando Laborda, Editorial Chief of Diario La Nación and Director of Communications college at Universidad de Belgrano.

Andrés Cañizález presented an analysis of the Annual Report October 2008-September 2009 of the Programa Venezolano de Educación y Acción en DDHH (PROVEA). Cañizalez is Director of the Program of Political Communications and Free Speech at Universidad Católica Andrés Bello (UCAB) and representative of Reporteros Sin Fronteras in Venezuela.

At his turn, Ricardo Manuel Rojas analyzed the report “Un nuevo Castro, la misma Cuba: Presos políticos en la era post Fidel” by Human Rights Watch, November 2009. Rojas is a lawyer and former Secretary of the Supreme Court of Argentina and former Criminal Judge. He is author, among other, of the books “Los Derechos Fundamentales y el Orden Jurídico e Institucional de Cuba” and "Elementos de Teoría Constitucional y una propuesta para Cuba", both published by CADAL.

Gabriel Palumbo, sociologist, professor at Social Science College of UBA and member of Ciudadanía y Democracia, was one of the analysts in charge of the conclusions at the end of the conference.