Human Rights & Repression?

While the Damas de Blanco (a dissident movement that campaigns for the rights of Cuban political prisoners) were assailed by Cuban authorities for participating in a demonstration ( leading to Cuba’s National Assembly) in favor of human rights yesterday morning during International Human Rights Day, Cuban Foreign Minister Felipe Perez Roque announced that Cuba will sign the U.N. International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and a similar pact on economic and social rights by March 2008.

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