To promote a peaceful transition to a Cuba that respects human rights
and political and economic freedoms
International Human Rights Day 2019
International Human Rights Day 2019 was marked in Cuba by dissidents being told by the political police that they could not leave their homes. Under the Castro regime December 10th has been a day of repression, arrests, and mobs denouncing human rights.
However, this does not reflect the totality of Cuba's human rights legacy.
Beginning in 1945 Cuba took part in lobbying for and participating in the drafting of the declaration and submitted nine proposals of which five made it into the final document. The first meetings of the General Assembly and the Security Council took place in London starting on January 10, 1946.
Cuban Ambassador Willy De Blanc in December 1945 invited former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill to lunch at the Cuban Embassy in London with other Cuban diplomats (including delegates to the U.N. Preparatory Commission Dr. Guy Pérez-Cisneros y Bonnel and Cuban jurist Dr. Ernesto Dihigo y López Trigo) where they requested his assistance in the creation of a human rights commission for the United Nations. Churchill recommended that the Cubans lobby Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt, and they followed his advice. Eventually the former First Lady was selected as chairwoman to the Human Rights Commission.
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