Hear from Cuban women at UN CSW events & US-Cuba Normalization conference!

An alert from the US Section of the

Women's International League for Peace and Freedom

WILPF US’ issue committee, Cuba and the Bolivarian Alliance, invites you to attend two events it is co-sponsoring as UN Commission on the Status of Women parallel events. Both are on-line webinars and the registration links are shown below.

First Event:

Cuba: Model for Implementing the Beijing Platform for Action

March 13, 6:30 pm–8:30 pm ET

Join us to discover ways that Cuba, over the last 30 years, and through the leadership of the Federation of Cuban Women, has taken the Beijing Platform for Action (Fourth World Conference on Women | United Nations) and consistently organized to advance women’s and girls’ human rights. The guarantee of free education and healthcare laid the basis for women to make advancements in every field.

Today, the majority of Cuba’s university students and graduates are women; women are the majority of medical doctors and other healthcare professionals, scientists, engineers, lawyers and members of the Parliament. What are the conditions that made this breakthrough possible and what are the barriers that stand in the way for full implementation?

Speakers:

Representatives of the Federation of Cuban Women (FMC) Delegation to the UN
Natasha Lycia Ora-Bannon: Co-chair, The Alliance for Cuba Engagement and Respect
Nataka Moore: PsyD, Professor and Psychologist, Adler University
Zenaida Mendez: President, National Dominican Women’s Caucus
Lianys Torres Rivera: Cuban Ambassador to the United States
Cindy Domingo: Chair, US Women and Cuba Collaboration and co-chair, WILPF-US Cuba and Bolivarian Alliance

8:00 pm BONUS film screening: Maestra /Teacher (28 minutes, Spanish with English subtitles) Introduction by filmmaker Catherine Murphy.

Organized by the US Women and Cuba Collaboration with the support of:

WILPF-US and WILPF Cuba and Bolivarian Alliance Issues Committee
National Dominican Women's Caucus
Women's Intercultural Network/Cities for CEDAW
CodePink: Women for Peace
Women of Vision
The Literacy Project
and others TBA

Second Event:

Cuba’s Families Code: Redefining the Global Fight for LGBTQIA2S+ Rights

March 19, 4:30 pm–6:00 pm ET

Lesbians and Allies Project US Women and Cuba Collaboration

NGO CSW69 Virtual Parallel Event

The Lesbians and Allies Project of the US Women and Cuba Collaboration hosts an International Queer Women and Gender Expansive presentation with activists addressing threats, challenges and gains in their communities. We will use Cuba's liberatory national Families Code (2022) as an aspirational model for the international human rights of LGBTQIA2S+ peoples everywhere. Cuba's Families Code in effect makes love the law. It constitutionally legalizes same-sex marriages and adoptions, and recognizes solidarity gestation, prenuptual agreements, assisted reproduction, and a partner's hospital access for all couples.

"Another world is not only possible, she is on her way."

—Arundhati Ray

Panelists

Amy Bryant: MSW, United Nations Association (UNA-USA) Vice Chair and Pride Affinity Advisor, Gay Games Denver 2030 Cultural Director, United States (they/them)
Deb Goldman: RN, MPH, Women's Health Advocate, Lesbians and Allies Project, WILPF Cuba & Bolivarian Alliance Issues Committee, United States (she/her)
Kia Kainyu: Activist, Kenya
Lía Sayonara Burbano Mosquera: Executive Director, Mujer & Mujer Foundation, Ecuador

Video messages from

Norma Rita Guillard: Social psychologist, Cuban leader in lesbian and Afrodescendent movements, Cuba (she/her)
Cuba’s National Center for Sexual Education: CENESEX, Cuba
Afrodiverso: Cuba

Moderator

Moon Luna Vázquez: Co-chair, Lesbians & Allies Project, United States (she/her)

Co-Sponsors

WILPF-US | Cuba and the Bolivarian Alliance Issues Committee
Fundación MUJER & MUJER
ILGA World
CHOICE for Youth & Sexuality

WILPF-US is also a co-sponsor of the US-Cuba Normalization conference on March 15-16 and WILPF Cuban and the Bolivarian Alliance co-chair Cindy Domingo will speak in a webinar that also includes Yamila Gonzalez Ferrer , who is an incredibly famous legal scholar who was instrumental in drafting and advancing the Families Code. She was elected to CEDAW with 143 votes - the highest vote total ever recorded.

US Cuba Normalization conference, March 15-16

Registration link

Reproductive Justice workshop with Yamila Gonzalez Ferrer and Cindy Domingo

Workshop 1 on March 15, 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm Eastern (11 am to 12:30 Pacific) and everything in between

Chair, Lucy Pagoada-Quesada:NYC Department of Education

Osmayda Hernandez: Federation of Cuban Women

Yamila Gonzalez Ferrer: Vice President, National Union of Cuban Jurists

Cindy Domingo: Co-chair, Cuba and the Bolivarian Alliance, WILPF

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