Cuba

Future of Guantánamo detainees must be resolved - 18 November 2009

President Barack Obama has acknowledged that his administration will not meet his deadline for the closure of the military facility in Cuba.

Obama should follow UN lead on Cuba embargo - 29 October 2009

In a record vote of the UN General Assembly, 187 countries said the US should end its embargo against Cuba

Obama should follow UN lead on Cuba embargo - 29 October 2009

Barack Obama should follow the lead of the UN General Assembly and take all necessary steps to end its economic embargo against Cuba, said Amnesty International today after the UN body condemned US sanctions against the island.

Cuba: Blogger denied freedom to travel outside Cuba - 13 October 2009

Amnesty International calls on the government of Cuba to lift the travel on Cuban blogger Yoani Sánchez, preventing her from travelling to New York to receive an international journalism award.

Blogger denied freedom to travel outside Cuba - 13 October 2009

Yoani Sánchez was due to accept an award for her journalism in New York. This is the fourth time she has been refused permission by the authorities to travel outside Cuba in the past two years.

Obama renews Cuba trade embargo - 15 September 2009

US President Barack Obama has extended the trade embargo against Cuba - missing an opportunity to improve the human rights situation for people on the island.
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Restrictions on freedom of expression, association and assembly persisted. Journalists and political dissidents faced harassment and intimidation by security officials.

President Obama should take the lead on lifting embargo against Cuba - 2 September 2009

A new Amnesty International report says that the sanctions on Cuba, imposed by the USA since 1962, are affecting Cubans' access to medicines and medical technologies and endangering the health of millions.

USA: President Obama should take the lead on lifting embargo against Cuba - 2 September 2009

President Barack Obama should take the first step towards dismantling the US embargo against Cuba by not renewing sanctions against the island under the Trading with the Enemy Act, Amnesty International said today as the 14 September deadline for the renewal of sanctions under the Act approaches.

Summit of the Americas fails to address human rights - 20 April 2009

The Declaration of Commitment of Port of Spain fails to lay out a clear human rights framework for progress in the areas of human prosperity, energy security and env