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HUMAN RIGHTS DAY, December 10, 20072007-12-10 On the ocassion of Human Rights Day, High Comissioner of UN issued a special statement in which he highlighted that Universal Declaration of Human Rights should be integral part of everyone's life. Coming to America: The New Cuban Migration Crisis2007-11-05 autor:Institute for Cuban and Cuban-American Studies
University of Miami Mass migration has long been a favored policy in Havana, used both as an escape valve to relieve the periodic build-up of internal socio-economic pressures (e.g., the so-called Balsero - rafter - exodus at the height of the post-Soviet Special Period in the early 1990s) and as an aggressive foreign policy tactic shrewdly employed to embarass and bring Washington to the negotiating table, on Cuba's terms. Cuban Public Opinion Survey released by the International Republican Institute.2007-11-01 autor:www.iri.org IRI Survey Shows Majority of Cubans Want to Vote for Castro’s Replacement and believe political and economic changes would benefit them. Renowned Cuban human rights activist and lawyer Rene Gomez Manzano, denied the right to attend Ludovic Trarieux Award ceremony held in his honor2007-10-19 The Cuban government has just denied well known human rights activist, independent lawyer, and former prisoner of conscience, Rene Gomez Manzano, to attend a ceremony to be held in his honor in Brussels, Belgium, to receive the Ludovic Trarieux International Human Rights award. New IAPA Press Freedom Report2007-10-10 autor:(IAPA/IFEX) “The situation in Cuba remains alarming after 48 years of dictatorship with no signs of a transition towards democracy. A total of 27 independent journalists continue imprisoned, a number of them seriously ill. Others are prevented from leaving the country despite having been issued humanitarian visas by neighboring countries.” said Inter American Press Association (IAPA) and International Freedom of Expression eXchange (IFEX). Inauguration of the Polish Committee for Solidarity with Cuba2007-04-17 President Lech Walesa will host the inauguration of the Polish Committee for Solidarity with Cuba to be held on 24 April 2007.
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