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Amnesty International released a report Tuesday documenting institutional gender-based violence against women human rights activists and journalists in Cuba, calling for an end to the practices.
In its report, the rights organization covered incidents occurring between the years 2014 and 2025, finding that Cuban women were routinely subjected to practices such as invasive strip searches, gendered stigmatization, the weaponization of motherhood, and threats against family members, as a mechanism of control. Women from marginalized communities such as minority races, single mothers and from different sexual orientations were reportedly at heightened risk of being targeted by physical, psychological, and online harassment.
Amnesty International’s Regional Director for the Americas Ana Piquer commented on the severity of the issue, stating: “Women defenders in Cuba are punished not only for speaking out, but also for being mothers, journalists, and community leaders. The state wields gender-based violence as a tool of repression, seeking to break their dignity, their families, and their collective strength.”
Statistics of gender-based violence in Cuban communities report 89 women being victims of femicide in 2023, and in the first three months of 2024, twelve cases of femicide have already been documented, making it one of the countries with the highest rates of femicide in Latin America. In 2023, more than 60% of arbitrary detentions in Cuba involved women, with 78 women being held as political prisoners.
Cuba made a 2024 submission to the United Nations on its compliance with the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW), where the UN observed the country to have made steps in enacting legal reforms. The UN also identified however, existing challenges in achieving substantive gender equality. These obstacles included the lack of a specific definition of discrimination against women and enforcement gaps, which were inconsistent with articles 1 and 2 of CEDAW.
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In its report, the rights organization covered incidents occurring between the years 2014 and 2025, finding that Cuban women were routinely subjected to practices such as invasive strip searches, gendered stigmatization, the weaponization of motherhood, and threats against family members, as a mechanism of control. Women from marginalized communities such as minority races, single mothers and from different sexual orientations were reportedly at heightened risk of being targeted by physical, psychological, and online harassment.
Amnesty International’s Regional Director for the Americas Ana Piquer commented on the severity of the issue, stating: “Women defenders in Cuba are punished not only for speaking out, but also for being mothers, journalists, and community leaders. The state wields gender-based violence as a tool of repression, seeking to break their dignity, their families, and their collective strength.”
Statistics of gender-based violence in Cuban communities report 89 women being victims of femicide in 2023, and in the first three months of 2024, twelve cases of femicide have already been documented, making it one of the countries with the highest rates of femicide in Latin America. In 2023, more than 60% of arbitrary detentions in Cuba involved women, with 78 women being held as political prisoners.
Cuba made a 2024 submission to the United Nations on its compliance with the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW), where the UN observed the country to have made steps in enacting legal reforms. The UN also identified however, existing challenges in achieving substantive gender equality. These obstacles included the lack of a specific definition of discrimination against women and enforcement gaps, which were inconsistent with articles 1 and 2 of CEDAW.
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