Inmates' pregnancies are fraught with problems impacting not only those who opt to give birth in prisons, but also those who are separated from their children by their incarceration.
By Cristhian Manuel Jiménez, Caribbean Campaigner at Amnesty International On 6 November, the UN Human Rights Council will conduct its Universal Periodic Review (UPR) of Cuba, providing an important opportunity to address the state of human rights in the country. This process enables Cuba’s civil society, long ignored by the government, to be heard and for UN Member States to express their concerns and recommendations to the authorities. Ahead of this review, activists and relatives of prisoners
If you want to know how equality and women's rights look like under socialism, just take a look at communist Cuba. Via Martí Noticias (my translation): Cuban women who are political prisoners serving longer sentences than those sentenced for murder In addition to sentencing them to long prison terms for exercising their civil liberties, the
Dear High Representative Borrell, Ahead of the forthcoming European Union (EU)-Cuba Joint Council on 26 May, our organizations are writing to urge you to…