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For the 21st consecutive year at the United Nations, the General Assembly adopted a resolution calling for an end to the economic, commercial and financial blockade imposed by the United States against Cuba 

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Report of the Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons, especially women and children - Mission to Cuba (A/HRC/38/45/Add.1)

Report of the Independent Expert on human rights and international solidarity on her mission to Cuba (A/HRC/38/40/Add.1)

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Concluding observations (2017) CED/C/CUB/CO/1

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Concluding observations (2015) CRC/C/OPAC/CUB/CO/1

Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the sale of children child prostitution and child pornography
Concluding observations (2015) CRC/C/OPSC/CUB/CO/1

Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women
Concluding observations (2013) CEDAW/C/CUB/CO/7-8

Committee against Torture
Concluding observations (2012) CAT/C/CUB/CO/2

Committee on the Rights of the Child
Concluding observations (2011) CRC/C/CUB/CO/2

Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination
Concluding observations (2011) CERD/C/CUB/CO/14-18


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