Havana, Cuba: Cuban women on the front line: The advancement of women’s human rights and the Cuban Family Code, is one of the topics addressed today by the United States-Cuba International Conference on Normalization.
According to the organizers of the solidarity meeting being held in New York, Cuba is in the midst of a national debate that encompasses some 78,000 meetings in electoral precincts on a new set of laws called the Family Code.
These revolutionary laws, with more than 400 articles, include the protection of the right of all people to form a family without discrimination, update the legal definition of family institutions, with inclusive and not strictly heteronormative models, which will be analyzed in the event.
The panel includes the Delegation of the Federation of Cuban Women (FMC) before the Commission on the Legal and Social Condition of Women of the UN 66, headed by its secretary general, Teresa Amarelle.
Participants will address why it is necessary to build solidarity with the Cuban women’s movement to end the US blockade.
Panelists include Jan Strout, American Women and Cuba Collaboration and Women United: Organizing for a Global Feminist Future!, Kathryn Trujillo-Hall, Founder of Birthing Project, USA and Ambassador of the International Federation for Gender and Human Rights ( FIGHR), among other figures.
Later, the participants in the forum will see the projection of the film “Cuba in Africa”, which shows the dramatic untold story of 420 thousand Cubans, soldiers and teachers, doctors and nurses, who gave everything to end the colonial regime and apartheid in southern Africa.
Other panels will speak on gender equality, key to tackling climate change in Cuba, with the participation of the FMC Delegation before the Commission on the Legal and Social Status of Women of the UN 66.
Other topics will also be presented, such as “Cuba’s approach to the climate crisis and Life Task”, by Professor of Economic and Social History at the University of Glasgow Helen Yaffe, a respected specialist in Cuban studies.
?A better world is possible, Yolanda Winds? will be another topic addressed by Isabella Borgeson, foreign policy fellow at the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights and award-winning speech artist.
In the evening there will be a rally against Washington’s economic and political war against Cuban sovereignty, whose speakers will include representatives of members of the Cuban Mission to the United Nations and the FMC and Carlos Lazo, founder of Puentes de Amor.
Likewise, the main organizer of the Amazon union, Chris Smalls, who fights to organize the giant warehouse JFK8, will participate in 2022 with Building Bridges to Cuba with Cuban Labor and LA Hands Off Cuba Coalition.