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NEWS
First Report
from the Cuban Commission of Human Rights for people with HIV-AIDS.
QUEMADO DE GUINES, CUBA - February 20th ( (Ignacio Estrada Cepero/www.Puenteinfocubamiami.org)-
On February 24th of this year we celebrate the fifth year of the
inauguration of the Cuban Commission of Human Rights for people with
HIV-AIDS, providing services to all persons; living with this terrible
disease.
We dedicate these first years of existence to someone who left us as
legacy his example of love for the neediest, Monsignor Eduardo Boza
Masvidal.
Our organization objectives are guided by the following percepts:
1. The promotion and respect for the fundamental rights of all people
with HIV-AIDS as approved by the United Nations guidelines.
2. To prevent the propagation of the HIV-AIDS,
3. To offer modernized information modernized about new discoveries
involving this disease,
4. To participate in all projects guided towards a free and democratic
Cuba where our rights are respected.
Guided by the above mentioned percepts, in the past five years we have
accomplished the following:
1. The inauguration of 3 Independent Libraries,
2. 21 pronouncements,
3. The Commission processed and verified 562 denouncements on human
rights violations.
4. We celebrated 7 peaceful activities,
5. And carried out 5 marches,
6. We have 1 bulletin in edition,
7. And participated in 37 other recent activities.
Achievements in 5 years:
1. In 2006 we established the "Dignity” prize, which is conferred to
honorable members of the Cuban Civil society whose protagonist actions
have written unmemorable pages of patriotism in our island. The prize is
also extended to members of the exile community and other members of the
international society.
2. The inauguration of Independent Center of Information Monsignor
Eduardo Boza Masvidal.
3. The creation of a Bulletin whose first edition will be circulated on
February 24, 2007, covering present topics of the Cuban society and
publications regarding HIV-AIDS.
4. To begin in 2007, an ample workshop for education on health issues in
our society,
The executive of the Commission remains as is:
President: Ignacio Estrada Cepero,
National secretary: Sergio Luis Moral Chirino,
Secretary: Judith Eloísa Hernández,
Analysts: Bárbara Jiménez, José Vicente Ribalta Carrasana and Julián
Gualberto González González.
This report was given from Quemado de Güines to the Information Bridge
Cuba Miami for its distribution, by Ignacio Estrada Cepero, president of
the Cuba Commission of Human Rights for people with HIV-AIDS. Given on
the 16th day of February of 2007, with the Collaboration of ¨Plantados
Hasta la Libertad y La Democracia en Cuba¨.
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