INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER I
CHAPTER II
CHAPTER III
CHAPTER IV
CHAPTER V
CHAPTER VI
CHAPTER VII
CHAPTER VIII
CHAPTER IX
CHAPTER X
CONCLUSIONS



CUBA, HUMANS WITH RIGHTS  (WHITE BOOK 2006)
 

Introduction

This document provides an opportunity to learn the points of view of Cuba relating to the spurious maneuver imposed each year by the government of the United States of America at the now defunct Human Rights Commission —and that they will possibly try to repeat in the framework of the new Council— always resorting to intimidation and even blackmail to discredit the exemplary work of the Cuban people on human rights matters.

This report compliments those distributed as official documents of the 59th, 60th and 61st annual sessions of the Human Rights Commission, under the following codes: E/CN.4/2003/G/37, E/CN.4/2004/G/46, E/CN.4/2005/G/39; E/CN.4/2005/G/26; E/CN.4/2005/G/41; E/CN.4/2005/G/42 and E/CN.4/2005/G/43, respectively. The current document brings the topic up to date and provides follow-up to the report presented under the same title to the 62nd annual session of the Commission, which is available for consultation at the: www.cubaminrex.cu website.

Those same texts provide ample documentation on the important actions the Revolution has undertaken for the Cuban people in her sovereign determination to build a society that is every day more just and equitable.

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Chapter 1: THE HOSTILITY AND AGGRESSIONS AGAINST CUBA BY THE GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED STATES HAS REACHED UNPRECEDENTED DIMENSIONS.

Chapter 2: A NEW IMPERIALIST PROGRAM FOR SUBJUGATING THE CUBAN NATION AND RECOLONIsing THE COUNTRY

Chapter 3: THE SUPPORT AND/OR IMPUNITY EXTENDED BY SUCCESSIVE U.S. ADMINISTRATIONS TO PERPETRATORS OF TERRORIST ACTS AGAINST CUBA.

Chapter 4: THE HUMAN RIGHTS OF FIVE YOUNG CUBAN ANTI-TERRORIST FIGHTERS, WRONGLY IMPRISONED IN THE UNITED STATES, AND THOSE OF THEIR FAMILIES, ARE GROSSLY VIOLATED FOR SPURIOUS POLITICAL MOTIVATIONS.

Chapter 5: THE UNITED STATES STEPS UP THE RECRUITMET, FINANCING AND USE OF MERCENARIES IN ITS ATTEMPTS TO UNDERMINE THE RIGHT OF SELF-DETERMINATION OF THE CUBAN PEOPLE.

Chapter 6: ANTI-CUBAN MANOEUVRES IN THE HUMAN RIGHTS SPHERE: INVENTING A SPURIOUS PRETEXT TO JUSTIFY THE PERPETUATION OF THE UNITED STATES’ POLICY OF HOSTILITY, BLOCKADE AND AGGRESSION TOWARDS THE CUBAN PEOPLE

Chapter 7: DESPITE THE UNJUST ANTI-CUBAN EXERCISE IMPOSED BY THE UNITED STATES, CUBA CONTINUES TO HONOR ITS COMMITMENT TO COOPERATE WITH ALL NON-DISCRIMINATORY HUMAN RIGHTS MECHANISMS.

Chapter 8: THE DEMOCRATIC SYSTEM ESTABLISHED BY THE CUBAN PEOPLE, EXERCISING THEIR SOVEREIGNTY

Chapter 9: THE LEGAL GUARANTEES FOR CIVIL AND POLITICAL RIGHTS UNDER CUBAN NATIONAL LEGISLATION

Chapter 10: URNING PRISONS INTO TRUE EDUCATION AND HUMAN IMPROVEMENT CENTERS

Conclusions

The policy of hostility, blockade and aggressions by successive United States administrations against the free determination and sovereignty of the Cuban nation –which comprises the unjust anti-Cuban exercise on human rights— did not start with the triumph of the Cuban Revolution in 1959 or with the proclamation of its socialist nature in 1961.  These have been permanent lines of the behavior of the Washington circles of power toward Cuba for more than 150 years.

The economic, commercial and financial blockade of the United States against the Cuban people is one of the most important mass, flagrant and systematic violations of the Cuban people’s human rights stemming from the policy of hostility against the Cuban nation, but not the only one. 

The Cuban people have been the victims of mercenary invasions; of biological, radio and television aggressions; of the external encouragement of illegal and violent emigration; of assassination attempts against their main leaders; and of sabotage and terrorist acts that have caused direct damage to economic and social targets in the country for more than 54 billion dollars, the proven death of 3,478 people and the permanent disability of another 2,099 Cubans.

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