Cuba rejects UN rights resolution

Okay, now I'm beginning to see why John Bolton is saying he wants to hep the UN emphasize Human Rights:

Cuba has said it will not co-operate in any form with a resolution passed against it by the United Nations Human Rights Commission in Geneva.

Moments after the vote was passed, Cuba's foreign minister described it as completely illegitimate.

The resolution, brought by the US, calls for the renewal of the mandate of a UN envoy to investigate alleged human rights abuses on the communist island.

The envoy was appointed in 2003, but Cuba has never allowed her to visit.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4446933.stm

I'm thinking W wants to see Castro's downfall as his "legacy."

citizenship in miami are already making.

A stick to beat Cuba

US bullying of the UN human rights group must stop

Ian Gibson
Friday April 15, 2005
The Guardian

Kofi Annan last week told the UN Human Rights Commission it needed reform. Its loss of credibility, he warned, was harming the UN. Human rights groups such as Amnesty International have argued that the manipulation of the commission by member states for political purposes is damaging its ability to serve the millions who suffer appalling abuses.
There is no more striking example of this than the way in which the US annually uses the commission as a platform to attack Cuba - and then uses its condemnation to justify the continuing blockade of the country. This year more than 4,500 intellectuals, including Mikhail Gorbachev and five Nobel prize winners, have signed a letter calling on member states to reject Washington's resolution on Cuba when voting takes place in the next few days.
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Cuba is the only country in the world subjected annually to a resolution condemning its human rights record. Despite the fact that Cuba's record is exemplary compared with, say, US allies such as Colombia or Saudi Arabia, these countries are not subject to US-sponsored condemnation. So biased is the tactic that in order to get the resolution passed, the US ritually resorts to economic blackmail. By threatening to withdraw aid, by offering loans, or by bullying, the US bends countries to its will. Even so, last year the resolution only squeaked through by one vote.
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The disproportionate and vindictive treatment of Cuba must be stopped. And the way in which the rich countries manipulate the commission needs to be addressed. The Bush administration will use another ill-gotten resolution to defend its continuing blockade, itself condemned by the UN as illegal. It is this greater crime that is being obscured.
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/cuba/story/0,11983,1460388,00.html

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Thanks for posting the article, Judi Lynn. :hi:

Very seldom get to see it out there in public when Cuba is the subject.

This assertion: Cuba is the only country in the world subjected annually to a resolution condemning its human rights record. is not quite true. Israel also gets hits every year going back to about 1968. Although, there are problems, Israel is also much better than many nations and are "victimized" by political agendas, although not American. DOCUMENTS OF CHARTER-BASED BODIES

There are significant human rights problems in Cuba and it would be ridiculous to pretend otherwise.

While the gist of the article is accurate in noting the continual abuse of "diplomacy" by the US toward Cuba, the fair and balanced insertions are nothing but false appeasement to US “diplomatic” efforts.

Significant h-r problems?

Arresting paid collaborators of the declared enemy state who's overt mission is to overthrow the government of Cuba is a h-r violation? I really have a hard time believing that.



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