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UN Human Rights Chief Calls for End of Trump Oil Embargo on Cuba as Crisis Deepens
UN human rights chief highlights fuel shortages disrupting water, health, and food services in Cuba, urging the US to lift embargo amid a worsening humanitarian crisis.
- On Friday, Volker Türk, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, urged the Trump administration to lift its oil embargo on Cuba amid a deepening humanitarian crisis, with spokesperson Marta Hurtado warning of worsening socio-economic conditions.
- The Trump administration cut off Cuba from Venezuela's oil last month and the White House threatened tariffs on countries supplying fuel to Cuba.
- Hurtado noted that fuel shortages have disrupted Cuba's social protection networks and compromised intensive care units, vaccine storage, and water pumping relying on electricity, impacting human rights.
- On Thursday, Mexico sent two ships loaded with humanitarian aid to Cuba after halting oil supplies following US threats.
- UN human rights experts said the January 29 order imposing a fuel blockade on Cuba violates international law and cited the Fourth Geneva Convention’s ban on collective penalties.
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Geneva.- On Friday, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk, called for the lifting of United States sanctions that impede the supply of oil to Cuba and criticized the widespread disruptions that cause the Caribbean country as a violation of its rights. The loss of oil imports from Cuba since the United States took control of the oil industry of Venezuela, its largest supplier, has paralysed an economy that was already…
U.N. Condemns U.S. Measures Halting Oil Deliveries to Cuba
United Nations human rights chief Volker Türk on Friday urged the lifting of U.S. sanctions that impede oil deliveries to Cuba, criticizing the widespread disruption they cause the Caribbean nation as a rights violation. Cuba’s loss of oil imports since the U.S. took control of the oil industry in Venezuela, its biggest supplier, has crippled an already struggling economy that depends heavily on oil to generate the electricity that powers the is…
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