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Judi Lynn

(160,516 posts) Sun Mar 20, 2016, 06:57 PM Mar 2016

Human Rights Hypocrisy: US Criticizes Cuba

Human Rights Hypocrisy: US Criticizes Cuba
March 18, 2016

by Marjorie Cohn

In advance of President Barack Obama’s historic visit to Cuba on March 20, there is speculation about whether he can pressure Cuba to improve its human rights. But a comparison of Cuba’s human rights record with that of the United States shows that the US should be taking lessons from Cuba.

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights contains two different categories of human rights – civil and political rights on the one hand; and economic, social and cultural rights on the other.

Civil and political rights include the rights to life, free expression, freedom of religion, fair trial, self-determination; and to be free from torture, cruel treatment, and arbitrary detention.

Economic, social and cultural rights comprise the rights to education, healthcare, social security, unemployment insurance, paid maternity leave, equal pay for equal work, reduction of infant mortality; prevention, treatment and control of diseases; and to form and join unions and strike.

More:
http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/03/18/human-rights-hypocrisy-us-criticizes-cuba/

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Human Rights Hypocrisy: US Criticizes Cuba (Original Post) Judi Lynn Mar 2016 OP

That is the correct view. RepubliCON-Watch Mar 2016 #1

The USA is THE ONLY OECD country that has not passed an ERA amendment to the constitution. Mika Mar 2016 #2

Thanks for that photo. Never saw it, before. She was a fighter in the revolution, too, wasn't she? Judi Lynn Mar 2016 #4

Contrary to the sputum eminating from CNN et al, they were at the vanguard of .... Mika Mar 2016 #5

Outstanding learning she is active in Canada, too. She has been working so hard for years Judi Lynn Mar 2016 #6

Ah Cuba. That well-known bastion of human rights and freedom Zorro Mar 2016 #3

RepubliCON-Watch

(559 posts)

1. That is the correct view.

Reply to Judi Lynn (Original post)

Sun Mar 20, 2016, 07:00 PM

Mar 2016

The US has been a symbolism of hypocrisy when it comes to human rights, being one of the last in LGBT rights, invading nations for special interests, no guaranteed healthcare or education, lack of worker's rights, and the list goes on. Cuba has been much better on these things than the US and we must recognise this.

Mika

(17,751 posts)

2. The USA is THE ONLY OECD country that has not passed an ERA amendment to the constitution.

Reply to RepubliCON-Watch (Reply #1)

Sun Mar 20, 2016, 07:07 PM

Mar 2016

Cuba did several decades ago. Raul Castro's deceased wife, Revolutionary hero Vilma Espin, was at the front and center of woman's rights in Cuba.

Vilma y Raul

Judi Lynn

(160,516 posts)

4. Thanks for that photo. Never saw it, before. She was a fighter in the revolution, too, wasn't she?

Reply to Mika (Reply #2)

Sun Mar 20, 2016, 10:43 PM

Mar 2016

There were a lot of women who also joined arms to overthrow that torture-loving, death squad lover, the bloody butcher, super thief, and US Mafia cohort, Fulgencio Batista.

They were the moral ones.

Mika

(17,751 posts)

5. Contrary to the sputum eminating from CNN et al, they were at the vanguard of ....

Reply to Judi Lynn (Reply #4)

Sun Mar 20, 2016, 11:07 PM

Mar 2016

... the human and civil rights movement that brought all Cubans their rights. As noted in another thread you posted on Cuba's and the US's human rights negotiations, Cuba has a good case to make.
Vilma Espin's death was a big hit, and had an officially recognized period of mourning for this incredible revolutionary and visionary woman.

She is the mother of Mariela Castro ...

Mariela Castro Espin Presented With OFL Workers’ Rights Award at World Pride Event
http://communistpartyontario.ca/?p=442

Judi Lynn

(160,516 posts)

6. Outstanding learning she is active in Canada, too. She has been working so hard for years

Reply to Mika (Reply #5)

Sun Mar 20, 2016, 11:23 PM

Mar 2016

to help Cubans get all the progress they can handle. They are so far ahead, now, and still going strong. Her work must be driving the original "exiles" around the bend in Miami. They are totally inflexible.

[center]

Mariela Castro Espin with Chile's President Michelle Bachelet.
We recall after Bachelet's term as President earlier, she went
to work at the UN for women's rights, herself. Great honor. [/center]

Zorro

(15,740 posts)

3. Ah Cuba. That well-known bastion of human rights and freedom

Reply to Judi Lynn (Original post)

Sun Mar 20, 2016, 07:12 PM

Mar 2016

Must be why I see all those reports of swarms of people trying to move there.

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