Situación de derechos humanos en Cuba será evaluada en Naciones Unidas
El Consejo de Derechos Humanos de la ONU realizará el 15 de noviembre el Examen Periódico Universal (EPU) a Cuba, para abordar la situación de los derechos humanos en el país. Varios activistas cubanos han opinado sobre sus expectativas al respecto.
El Consejo de Derechos Humanos de la ONU realizará el 15 de noviembre el Examen Periódico Universal (EPU) a Cuba, para abordar la situación de los derechos humanos en el país. Varios activistas cubanos han opinado sobre sus expectativas al respecto.
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00:00 The UN Human Rights Council will hold the universal journal EPU-Cuba exam on November 15
00:08 to address the situation of human rights in the country.
00:12 Several Cuban activists have commented on their expectations regarding this.
00:17 I believe that the United Nations has stopped being or behaving as the body for which it was constituted many years ago.
00:27 I believe that an organization that has a high presence of human rights violators,
00:39 of countries that are not democratic, such as Cuba, Venezuela, Nicaragua and many others,
00:47 I believe that this leaves much to be desired.
00:50 And that Cuba is becoming part of the Human Rights Council,
00:54 I believe that it is, in addition to absurdity, in addition to a counter-intuition,
00:58 it is a brutal attack on a state, a dictatorship,
01:02 which is in frank violations of the norms and precepts that govern international law.
01:09 A criminal state, as is the case of the Catrista state,
01:13 which is on the verge of the precepts and freedoms of that body,
01:21 I believe that it is a total incoherence.
01:25 From our expectation, we understand that several states could use this opportunity
01:34 to make a mention of the crisis that is currently experienced in the country,
01:38 especially on issues such as the need for the liberation of people in need of consciousness,
01:43 the improvement of the economic and social situation in the country,
01:47 as well as putting an end to the repression experienced by dissident people,
01:52 artists, journalists, among other people who freely express their opinion and in a peaceful way.
02:00 And that is our second expectation or desire,
02:05 and that is that the Cuban government adopts a position of responsibility
02:11 and begins the immediate liberation of the people in prison,
02:14 only for the fact of exercising their rights in a peaceful way,
02:17 to stop the harassment experienced by people of the opposition,
02:21 activists and human rights defenders,
02:24 and to widely respect the freedoms of expression, association and peaceful reunification.
02:30 I believe that the expectations of the vast majority of the independent civil society,
02:36 those of us who are doing direct activism for respect for human rights in the Cuban context,
02:43 is basically that the exam to Cuba is as rigorous as possible,
02:51 and as objective as possible, from the point of view of all the information that we have been able to provide.
02:58 And that, consequently, the recommendations that the rest of the states suggest to Cuba
03:06 or make to the Cuban state are as punctual as possible, be they of direct action,
03:14 be they of a time of realization as close as possible,
03:21 if they cannot be of immediate action, at least that it is as close as possible,
03:29 so that in this way it is possible not only to evaluate the performance or fulfillment of the obligations of the Cuban state
03:39 with respect to human rights, but also to be able to pressure against non-compliance.
03:45 We cannot expect much from this event, but I do center the hopes that a group of political prisoners
03:54 who are going through the most difficult of situations and often their forgotten cases,
04:03 because often the events or certain events are centered on the best-known people and the most notable.
04:16 We know that we are in the presence of a totalitarian dictatorship, if you will,
04:21 the most long-lived in the world, one of the most human rights violators in the world,
04:27 but starting from the beginning of everything we have achieved in recent times,
04:34 how we have gained space in front of decision-makers,
04:38 how we have gained space in front of the world public opinion,
04:42 how our society has also been empowering itself from the information,
04:49 from knowledge about human rights, possible violations,
04:54 to identify these violations in practice.
04:58 We consider that even when the recommendations that arise from the Universal Periodic Exam are not all effective,
05:09 which we intend or wish to be,
05:12 there will always be the possibility of showing the world in a tangible way
05:19 the lack of political will of the Cuban government in the representation of the state
05:25 to assume and fulfill its obligations towards human rights
05:31 and everything implemented in the international human rights treaties.
05:36 We see this space with some optimism, but also with our feet on the ground.
05:42 It is another of the very few spaces where civil society could be an influence
05:47 and achieve that certain countries show a coherent and real position
05:54 about the crisis that is currently experienced in Cuba.
05:57 The International Amnesty Organization stressed that the Universal Periodic Exam of Cuba
06:03 represents a crucial opportunity for Cuban civil society to be heard
06:09 and for the UN Member States to promote the Cuban government to cease the repression of dissent
06:16 and take measures to improve the situation of human rights in Cuba.
06:23 For more information, visit www.ilo.org
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