Coalition urges international community to demand end of repression in Cuba

As civil society organizations that promote human rights and as individuals committed to defending freedom of expression, we urge the international community to intercede with the Cuban government urging an immediate end to the repression against those who peacefully exercise their rights to freedom of expression, assembly, demonstration, and association.

Claim for the human rights situation in Cuba

CADAL, CIVICUS, Civil Rights Defenders, Freedom House, People in Need, Race and Equality and Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights demand that the international community hold the Cuban Government accountable for its actions and immediately stop illegal arbitrary short-term detentions, house arrests, forced exile and smear campaigns against dissenting voices.

Until when the criminalization of freedom of association, expression, and assemblage in Cuba?

Until when will fundamental rights be considered crimes in Cuba? What are the options for activists, artists, and journalists to work outside the State? What can the international democratic community and the UN's universal human rights protection system do? These and other questions were answered in our virtual conference. Speakers: Inés Pousadela, Senior Research Specialist (CIVICUS) ; María Salazar, Emergencies Director at the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) ; Abraham Jiménez Enoa, Independent journalist (Cuba) and Julio Ferrer - Independent lawyer and member of Cubalex (Cuba) . The moderator was Gabriel C. Salvia, General Director of CADAL..

Freedom of Association in Human Rights Activism and Press Freedom

CADAL organized a closed meeting of exchange between civil society representatives with the aim of analyzing the challenges in South America and the particular case of Cuba. The meeting was attended by members of Human Rights Watch (United States), Committee to Protect Journalists (United States), Civicus (Uruguay), Fundación para la Libertad de Prensa (Colombia), PROVEA (Venezuela), Cubalex (Cuba), Instituto Prensa y Sociedad (Peru), Espacio Público (Chile), Fundación Construir (Bolivia), FOPEA (Argentina), Fundación Ciudadanía y Desarrollo (Ecuador), Thompson Reuters Foundation (Argentina) and Civil Rights Defenders (Sweden/Colombia).