OBAMA TRIP TO CUBA, ARGENTINA A GOLDEN OPPORTUNITY TO TACKLE MUTUAL
HUMAN RIGHTS SHORTFALLS
18 March 2016, 10:08 UTC
US President Barack Obama's historic state visits to Cuba and Argentina
this week provide a golden opportunity to address some of all three
countries' main human rights challenges, said Amnesty International.
If Presidents Obama, Castro and Macri fail to discuss their countries'
questionable human rights records and agree on meaningful steps to make
substantial improvements, they will go down in history as the leaders
who chose to ignore the suffering of million
Erika Guevara-Rosas
Top concerns include the mistreatment of migrants in the USA, the lack
of freedom of expression in Cuba and the repression of social leaders in
Argentina.
"If Presidents Obama, Castro and Macri fail to discuss their countries'
questionable human rights records and agree on meaningful steps to make
substantial improvements, they will go down in history as the leaders
who chose to ignore the suffering of millions instead of being the
catalysts for change," said Erika Guevara-Rosas, Americas Director at
Amnesty International.
Background
US President Barack Obama will be in Cuba between 20 and 22 March to
meet President Raúl Castro. On 24 March he will be travelling to
Argentina to meet President Mauricio Macri. He will be in the South
American country on the 40th anniversary of the 1976 coup d'etat – when
tens of thousands of people were held in illegal detention centres,
tortured ad many were forcibly disappeared.
Amnesty International has sent an open letter to the three Presidents
outlining some of the organization's main human rights concerns in these
countries. The letter is available on:
https://www.amnesty.org/en/documents/amr01/3666/2016/en/
Source: Obama trip to Cuba, Argentina a golden opportunity to tackle
mutual human rights shortfalls | Amnesty International -
https://www.amnesty.org/en/press-releases/2016/03/obama-trip-to-cuba-argentina-a-golden-opportunity-to-tackle-mutual-human-rights-shortfalls/
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