Cultura Democrática joined 85 Cuban and international human rights organizations to express their concerns over Cuba being re-admitted as a member of the UN Human Rights Council for a fifth term. This joint statement disapproves of the UNHRC’s October 13 decision to allow Cuba to sit on the HRC for fear that Cuba will continue to undermine international…
The World Movement condemns the Cuban government’s violent arrest of artist and civil society activist Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara. Otero Alcántara was arrested outside of his home in Havana on March 1 while he was on his way to attend an anti-censorship demonstration organized by the local LGBTQ community. He potentially faces two to five…
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Latin American activists remembered the legacies of Oswaldo Payá and Harold Cepero, two pro-democracy Cuban activists who died in a suspicious car crash five years ago. On July 22, four former Latin American presidents issued online video statements calling upon the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights to conduct an independent investigation into the activists’ deaths.…