This December 10th, International Human Rights Day, Cubalex celebrates its 14th anniversary. More than a decade of constant work began in Havana, Cuba, on December 10, 2010, with a team of lawyers and human rights defenders, united by the dream [...]
Photo: Screenshot. On December 6, the event “Representing Cuban Women at the United Nations,” organized by the Cuban Research Institute, was held at Florida International University (FIU). This event, which included the participation of prominent human rights defenders such as Laritza Diversent, director [...]
Photo: Screenshot. The lawyer and human rights advocate pointed out that the lack of judicial independence in Cuba affects justice and reinforces a climate of impunity in which human rights violations go unpunished. On November 6, Laritza Diversent, executive director [...]
Cuba is experiencing one of the most severe energy crises in its recent history. The total collapse of electricity generation has left much of the country without access to essential services such as electricity, water, and communication, deepening a food crisis that was already severely affecting [...]
Photo: Screenshot. Laritza Diversent, executive director of Cubalex, participated in the 2099th public meeting of the 89th session of the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) with human rights non-governmental organizations. During her intervention, she highlighted the serious shortcomings [...]
Photo: Juan Carlos Hernández/AFP. The Venezuelan regime's repression of its own people, who are legitimately protesting in the streets against the alleged reelection of Nicolás Maduro and irregularities during the electoral process, constitutes a flagrant violation of human rights. The people of Venezuela are raising their voices, [...]
The undersigned organizations make the following declaration in commemoration of the third anniversary of the demonstrations held on July 11, 2021 (11J - hereinafter) and the following days in Cuba, and demand that the Cuban State respect, protect, and guarantee the human rights of all its inhabitants, without [...]
Photo: Cubalex Archive. On March 27, 2024, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) received a request to extend precautionary measures, urging the body to demand that the Cuban State protect the rights of Marienys Pavó Oñate. The lawyer is being harassed by state agents in [...]
The Commission urges the Cuban government to take urgent protective measures to guarantee the fundamental rights of Aniette González García, improve her detention conditions, and ensure she receives the necessary medical care, with a gender perspective and in compliance with international obligations. The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights [...]
On April 11, 2024, the regional campaign “It’s Happening Again” was launched, a joint effort by several human rights organizations to shed light on the alarming situation of people deprived of their liberty for political reasons in Cuba, Nicaragua, and Venezuela. Photo: [...]
The UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention called for the immediate release of Yandier García Labrada, a Cuban farmer and dissident sentenced to five years in prison for “contempt,” “assaulting authority,” and “spreading epidemics.” In its Opinion No. 68/2023, issued during the 98th session of the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, the Group called for the immediate release of Yandier García Labrada, a Cuban farmer and dissident sentenced to five years in prison for “contempt,” “assaulting authority,” and “spreading epidemics.”
The Cuban State accepted 292 of the 361 recommendations received during the fourth cycle of the Universal Periodic Review. They announced they would take note of 41 and rejected 28, related to the rights to freedom of expression and association. Washington, D.C., March 26, 2024 – After the [...]
The UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention called for the immediate release of Yandier García Labrada, a Cuban farmer and dissident sentenced to five years in prison for “contempt,” “assaulting authority,” and “spreading epidemics.” In its Opinion No. 68/2023, issued during the 98th session of the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, the Group called for the immediate release of Yandier García Labrada, a Cuban farmer and dissident sentenced to five years in prison for “contempt,” “assaulting authority,” and “spreading epidemics.”
The Cuban State accepted 292 of the 361 recommendations received during the fourth cycle of the Universal Periodic Review. They announced they would take note of 41 and rejected 28, related to the rights to freedom of expression and association. Washington, D.C., March 26, 2024 – After the [...]
During the fourth cycle of the UN Universal Periodic Review (UPR), held on November 15, 2023, Cuba underwent further scrutiny under this mechanism, which revealed significant challenges for the State in fulfilling its international human rights obligations. Cuba received [...]
Given the alarming increase in gender-based violence in Cuba, on this International Women's Day, we call for intensified demands and actions to protect women on the island. Until early March, the Alas Tensas Gender Observatory (OGAT) and [...]
At a thematic hearing on Cuba before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, organizations denounced the intensification of state repression and human rights violations, and demanded urgent action to support independent civil society in Cuba. A coalition of 13 international and civil society organizations [...]
Laritza Diversent, a human rights lawyer and director of Cubalex, highlighted at the thematic hearing “Cuba: Right to Freedom of Association” before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, the complex legal landscape that deepens restrictions on fundamental freedoms and obstructs any form of independent association in [...]
Julio Ferrer Tamayo, a lawyer with Cubalex, presented to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) the complex situation faced by independent civil society organizations in Cuba due to ongoing harassment by the Cuban state. He emphasized that the systematic implementation of these methods constitutes a pattern aimed at [...]
On the occasion of Human Rights Day and the 75th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, we express our deep concern that human rights defenders, journalists, and artists continue to be arbitrarily detained, harassed, and intimidated in Cuba. Despite [...]
