I write as the Director of the Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative (CHRI). CHRI is a respected international NGO. It is non partisan and independent. The areas of its work look at accountability and we promote in particular police reform and access to information.
At a screening of his 2007 documentary about the Haitian revolution at the Watson Institute for International Studies last night, filmmaker Noland Walker discussed the implications of the momentous event in the context of human rights and slavery….
The European Union does not seek a regime change in communist Cuba, but expects progress on human rights, a visiting EU official said after meeting with Cuban President Raul Castro.
President Obama recently asked Spanish Foreign Minister Miguel Angel Mortatinos to tell Cuba’s President Raul Castro that for relations between the countries to improve Cuba has to do its part to help reform and improve human rights, Fox News has learned.
US President Barack Obama extended the White House’s 47-year trade embargo against Cuba on Tuesday – missing an opportunity to improve the human rights situation for people on the island. Amnesty International had called on President Obama not to renew the sanctions, which limit Cubans’ access to medicines and are endangering the health of millions. “The US embargo against Cuba is immoral and …
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