USA nominates Rosa María Payá to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights

WASHINGTON- “I have been a victim. I have seen my family suffer and die, my compatriots and friends live in the midst of anxiety just because they don’t have basic rights,” says the 36-year-old activist in an interview with EFE. Payá brought to the IACHR the case of her father’s death in a suspicious car accident in 2012 in Cuba, for which the agency held the Cuban state responsible after ten years of trial.TE MAY INTEREST: UN analyzes supportin…

USA nominates Rosa María Payá to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights

The U.S. government announced on 27 March the nomination of the Cuban human rights defender Rosa María Payá Acevedo as a candidate to join the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR), an autonomous body of the Organization of American States (OAS). “Rosa María Payá is a democracy advocate, human rights leader, and internationally renowned expert in Latin American politics,” stated the Department of State in an official statement. [see:…