Havana, Cuba: Starting today, the University of Havana will host the III International Seminar: Dialogues on Human Rights, focused on the protection of health, childhood and youth, especially in Cuba, Prensa Latina publishes.
The event scheduled until next Friday will begin with a keynote lecture by the island’s Minister of Public Health, Dr. José Ángel Portal Miranda, in the Aula Magna of that higher education center.
According to the program, there will also be a panel on health guarantees in the context of a health emergency, and another in relation to Cuban families in diversity.
Thursday’s agenda includes the exchange on religious freedom, protective environments for children and adolescents, and sexual and reproductive rights in those stages of life.
There will also be the dialogue on the Sustainable Development Goals in times of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Meanwhile, on Friday the center of debate will be the comprehensive strategy for the prevention and care of gender violence in Cuba, as well as the guarantees in the constitutional panorama of the largest of the Antilles.
Similarly, the impact on the enjoyment of human rights of the economic, commercial and financial blockade imposed by the United States on the island will be analyzed, and the Ibero-American Network for Research in Law: Family, International Migration and Conflict Resolution will be presented.
The event is called by the National Union of Jurists of Cuba, the Faculty of Law of the University of Havana, the Cuban Association of the United Nations and the National Center for Sex Education.
Cuba is internationally recognized for the promotion and enjoyment of human rights, among which are free access to health services and inclusive and quality education throughout life.
Last October, the world decided for the fifth time the incorporation of the Caribbean country as a member of the United Nations Human Rights Council, for the period 2021-2023.