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People

Population	87.89 mln
Population growth	2%
Life expectancy	72 years
Net migration	-900,000

Economy

GDP	$144.06 bln
- per capita	$1,639
- growth rate	7%
FDI, net inflows	$2.93 bln

Infrastructure

Cellphone users	59%
Internet users	6%
High-tech exports	54%

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Guantánamo: A decade of damage to human rights

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Guantánamo continues to be a location for indefinite military incarceration and occasional military commission trials. There are individuals still detained who should be brought to justice on charges of responsibility in relation to the 11 September 2001 attacks. Currently, however, those accused of involvement in the 9/11 attacks and other serious crimes face capital trial at Guantánamo before military commissions that do not meet international fair trial standards. Amnesty International urges more...

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Sonia Hossain on February 13, 2012

Political short-term detentions and harassment in Cuba

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This report reveals new tactics by the Cuban authorities to punish individuals seen as opposed to the regime. The Cuban government wages a permanent campaign of harassment and short-term detentions of political opponents to stop them from demanding respect for civil and political rights. Criticism of the government is not tolerated in Cuba and it is routinely punished with arbitrary and short-term detentions, intimidation, harassment and politically motivated criminal prosecutions. In this more...

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Sonia Hossain on April 01, 2012

Bringing China’s criminal procedure law in line with international standards

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Amnesty International is writing to detail some of the organization’s concerns with the Criminal Procedure Law Draft Revisions. While the Draft Revisions introduce a number of positive elements to China’s criminal justice system, they fail to address significant areas where current law is not in compliance with internationally recognized standards and some aspects would move China further from compliance with human rights standards including those considered customary international law binding more...

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Sonia Hossain on March 07, 2012

Ecohealth Research in Practice

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Featuring case studies from around the world, Ecohealth Research in Practice demonstrates innovative practices in agriculture, natural resource management, community building, and disease prevention, reflecting the state of the art in research, application, and policymaking in the field. The book demonstrates how ecohealth research works and how it has led to lasting changes for the betterment of peoples’ lives and the ecosystems that support them.

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Sonia Hossain on December 26, 2011

The Custodians of Biodiversity

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Globally, local and indigenous approaches to conserving biodiversity, crop improvement, and managing precious natural resources are under threat. This book outlines the national and international policy processes that are currently underway to protect local genetic resources and related traditional knowledge and the challenges these initiatives have faced. In particular these themes are addressed within the context of the Convention on Biological Diversity and the International Treaty on Plant more...

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Sonia Hossain on November 30, 2011

The Impact of the Global Crisis on Cuba’s Economy and Social Welfare

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The mechanisms by which the world economic crisis has been transmitted from developed to developing economies are conditioned by domestic factors that may attenuate or accentuate external economic shocks and their adverse social effects. Cuba is a special case : it is an open economy and hence vulnerable to trade growth transmission mechanisms, but at the same time, it is a socialist economy with universal social services. This article reviews the literature, summarizes Cuba’s domestic more...

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Sonia Hossain on July 21, 2011

Cuba's HIV/AIDS Strategy

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This paper discusses the Cuban approach to HIV, which like the nation’s public health system, is founded on the principal that health is a human right. In practice, this translates into a continuum of care through universal access to primary, secondary, and tertiary health services, government commitment to equalizing and improving social determinants, and scientific research and development aimed at advancing population health. Constitutional rights, including job and housing guarantees and more...

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Sonia Hossain on October 12, 2010

Cuba risk reduction management centres, best practices in risk reduction

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This document aims to systematize the best practices of the Cuban model of Risk Reduction Management Centres, which have been supported by United Nations Development Programme Cuba through diverse initiatives. This model establishes the possibility of mitigating disaster impacts through an informed, coordinated, multi-disciplinary and decentralized approach which focuses on identifying hazards and acting pre-emptively to reduce risks. This approach has contributed to the excellent track record more...

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Moushumi Biswas on August 14, 2010

Real Change for Cuba? How Citizens View Their Country’s Future

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In September 2010, Cuban president Raul Castro announced the beginning of sweeping economic reforms, including the elimination of a million public sector jobs, the easing of restrictions on private enterprise, and the first Communist Party Congress since 1997. To explore what Cubans think about the announced reforms, Freedom House conducted in-depth interviews with 120 people in six provinces from December 2010 to January 2011. These interviews also assessed access to information and more...

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Farina Ahmed on August 01, 2011

USA: The Case Of The 'CUBAN FIVE'

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This report describes Amnesty International’s concerns about the fairness of the trial of five men imprisoned in the USA since 1998 on charges related to their activities as intelligence agents for the Cuban government. In June 2010, lawyers for the five filed a further motion in the district (trial) court, seeking habeas corpus relief on the basis of new issues. These include a claim of ineffective assistance of counsel in the case of one of them, and new evidence of alleged government more...

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Sonia Hossain on March 28, 2011

The Human Cost: Cubans and Cuban Americans talk about their lives and the U.S. Embargo

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Over the course of three years, author Dr. Mercedes B. Arce Rodriguez interviewed Cubans and Cuban Americans about their lives, collecting testimonies about the impact of the U.S. embargo. She lets their personal stories speak for themselves while reflecting on the social impact of the blockade from a deeply human dimension. The publication was made possible through the support of Oxfam America.

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Farina Ahmed on July 31, 2011

Scaling-Up Early Child Development in Cuba - Cuba's Educate Your Child Program: Strategies and Lessons from the Expansion Process

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There are two distinct stages in Cuba’s history with regard to child development services. In the first stage, before the Revolution, health services were quite limited; there were only 300 children’s health centers in the entire country, and the child mortality rate was 54 per 1,000 live births. In the second stage, following the Revolution, health services became universal, with rates of child mortality and low birth weight comparable to those in developed countries and 99.8 percent of more...

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Najmee Chowdhury on May 03, 2010

EU-US summit: transatlantic cooperation to be intensified

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Meeting on 21 June at the Vienna EU-US summit, EU and US leaders committed themselves to strengthen their global partnership by adopting a common line towards global challenges. "When America and the EU work together, we can accomplish big things," said President Bush. "Working together, the EU and the US may not be enough to solve the many challenges before us. But without the joint efforts of the EU and the US, these global challenges will be impossible to meet." The leaders discussed more...

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German Yáñez on June 30, 2006

To Effect Change in Havana, Support the Cuban People

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We've all heard the stories about modern life in Cuba — menial wages, long lines for public services, fewer subsidies for basic necessities, restrictions on travel both on and off the island, vigilante committees that monitor and harass anyone who questions the regime. No doubt, life for the Cuban people is tough, and only getting tougher.By any conventional measure, Cuba poses little to no security threat to the United States. Its active military has shrunk from an estimated 235,000 in 1999 to more...

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Farina Ahmed on February 02, 2011

EU to observe Presidential and Parliamentary Elections in Sierra Leone

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The European Commission is deploying an EU Election Observation Mission (EOM) for the Presidential and Parliamentary elections in Sierra Leone scheduled to take place on 11 August 2007. The EOM is a European Commission contribution to supporting peace and democracy in Sierra Leone...

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German Yáñez on July 11, 2007

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