Re: EU says no progress with Cuba on human rights

Dan Christensen wrote:
On May 12, 9:50 am, PL <pl.nos...@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
EU says no progress with Cuba on human rights
Mon May 11, 2009 7:00pm BST
By David Brunnstrom

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Union and Cuba disagreed over the
communist island's human rights policy on Monday but a senior EU
official made clear he opposed any move to resume sanctions lifted last
year.

EU Aid Commissioner Louis Michel called instead for more dialogue with
the Caribbean island and diplomats said the Union was unlikely to revert
to sanctions next month when it reviews the decision to lift them.

"Our views did converge on the issues of climate change and U.N. reform;
they did not in the area of human rights," Czech Foreign Minister Jan
Kohout said after EU officials held talks with Cuban Foreign Minister
Bruno Rodriguez.

"We came back to the issue of political prisoners in Cuba and their
health, and the answer we got was that in Cuba there are no political
prisoners," he told reporters.


Why should Cuba release convicted US agents
(snip)

They aren't as the wards given to them by amongst others the European Parliament show.

Human rights in Cuba: links to over 100 human rights reports
http://www.cubaverdad.net/links_to_human_rights_reports.htm

PL

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Relevant Pages

  • ANNUAL REPORT OF THE IACHR 2007
    ... ANNUAL REPORT OF THE IACHR 2007 ... The authority of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights to observe the human rights situation in Cuba derives from the provisions of the OAS Charter, from the Commission's own Statute, and from its Rules of Procedure. ... The Commission has maintained that the Cuban State "is juridically answerable to the Inter-American Commission in matters that concern human rights" since it is "party to the first international instruments established in the American Hemisphere to protect human rights" and because Resolution VI of the Eighth Meeting of Consultation"excluded the Government of Cuba, not the State, from participating in the intra-American system."In this regard, the IACHR has said that: ...
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  • Re: Human rights still under siege
    ... Why don't uou post her whole report on Cuba comrade Dan? ... COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS Sixty-second session Item 9 of the provisional agenda ... Report submitted by the Personal Representative of the High Commissioner ... Representative of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights made several attempts to contact the Cuban authorities to initiate a dialogue with them in order to fulfil her mandate of examining the situation of human rights in Cuba. ...
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  • Cuba: Country Reports on Human Rights Practices 2006
    ... Released by the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor. ... Cuba remains a Latin American anomaly: an undemocratic government that represses nearly all forms of political dissent. ... In early July 2005 the Cuban Commission for Human Rights and National Reconciliation, a respected local human rights group, issued a list of 306 prisoners who it said were incarcerated for political reasons. ...
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