US EditionRights Report Flags Labor Abuses in Cuban Medical Brigades
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The president of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR), Edgar Stuardo Ralón, said this Tuesday, in an interview with AFP, that there are elements to classify practices carried out in international medical missions in Cuba as forced labor and human trafficking. In a report released this Tuesday, the IACHR denounces human rights violations in these programs, such as the withholding of participants' salaries, threats of up to eight …
Havana/Miami (USA), 7 Apr (EFE).- The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) denounced structural “vulnerations” of “labour, trade union, and human mobility rights” of professionals members of Cuba's medical missions abroad. The report of this organization of the Organization of American States (OAS) coincides with a campaign of pressure from the United States on Cuba and, in particular, on its controversial medical missions and other…
What emerged in the decade of the past sixties as a cooperation initiative has over time — and the economic deterioration in Cuba — become an important source of income for the Havana regime. Cuban medical missions began in 1963 with the dispatch of a first permanent brigade to Algeria and since then Cuban doctors are an essential export product for the island's coffers.
By Stefano Pozzebon, CNN en Español. Cuba's international medical missions, a cornerstone of decades of its socialist government's foreign policy, are under scrutiny amid the severe crisis facing the island due to its structural economic problems and increasing pressure from the United States. A new report from the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) documented widespread allegations that could involve labor and human rights violat…
The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) denounced on Tuesday in a report serious human rights violations in Cuba's international medical missions, such as withholding the salaries of the participants, threats of imprisonment for those who abandon them or confiscation of passports.Read more
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