HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL
23rd session
Item 3: Promotion and protection of all human rights, civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights, including the right to development.
June 2013
For over twenty years, the US embargo against Cuba has been condemned by an ever larger, and now overwhelming, majority of Member States of the United Nations General Assembly. In spite of the United Nations’ repeated injunctions, and in spite of accession to power of President Barack Obama, the embargo continues to be imposed by the isolated but stubborn will of the US government. In the 21st vote of the General Assembly in 2012, 188 of 193 States declared the necessity to lift the blockade against Cuba.