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April 9, 2024, 9:31 p.m.
Countries: Cuba
Variables: SEGI-PRACTICE-3

"The wound of the bad legal-criminal treatment that the case had is reopened, and therefore the effectiveness of the sanction imposed, the work of the court and the high institutional tolerance in relation to the lack of transparency of the criminal process are questioned" (para 4). "For both cases — the femicide and the Bécquer case — 'the full weight of the law' has been requested, within the framework of the new Penal Code, which provides for more severe penalties for cases of gender-based violence. But it is not about more years of imprisonment or more drastic penalties" (para 10). "As feminists, we appeal to criminal justice based on facts,...more
April 9, 2024, 9:31 p.m.
Countries: Cuba
Variables: SEGI-PRACTICE-2

"The femicide that occurred in the province of Guantánamo triggered the most recent debate. In the first place, due to the use of inappropriate terms when referring to the facts. In addition, for the use of a firearm by a police officer" (para 2).
April 9, 2024, 9:31 p.m.
Countries: Cuba
Variables: SEGI-PRACTICE-1

"Everything condenses something palpable, denounced by feminist voices for years: in Cuba there is no legal or institutional order that responds coherently to events of such magnitude" (para 5). "Another topic of debate has been the public statement of the Federation of Cuban Women and the Cuban Institute of Music in rejection of the position of the singer-songwriter found guilty of crimes of lascivious abuse. Despite the criticism, accurate or not, public statements are important and are always desirable" (para 18). "There is still a significant distance to be covered in terms of gender from the legal point of view; but with current regulations, it is already possible to articulate...more
April 9, 2024, 9:31 p.m.
Countries: Cuba
Variables: RISW-PRACTICE-1

"There is a record of progress in essential areas: the Comprehensive Strategy against gender-based and intrafamily violence, the transversal treatment of gender-based violence in regulatory bodies such as the Family Code, the Penal Code and the Criminal Enforcement Law, based on the updating of the National Program for the Advancement of Women. However, they are instruments that are not yet sufficiently grounded in the institutional and political dynamics of the country. The Program will have been approved two years ago and the Strategy for just over one" (para 6-7).
April 9, 2024, 9:31 p.m.
Countries: Cuba
Variables: MURDER-PRACTICE-1

"The femicide that occurred in the province of Guantánamo triggered the most recent debate. In the first place, due to the use of inappropriate terms when referring to the facts. In addition, for the use of a firearm by a police officer" (para 2). "There is still a significant distance to be covered in terms of gender from the legal point of view; but with current regulations, it is already possible to articulate a series of policies, programs, or measures that deal with: Creation of specialized divisions for the investigation of crimes related to this type of violence (prosecutors, courts, police), including the offices where statements are made or complaints...more
April 9, 2024, 9:31 p.m.
Countries: Cuba
Variables: MURDER-LAW-1

"Everything condenses something palpable, denounced by feminist voices for years: in Cuba there is no legal or institutional order that responds coherently to events of such magnitude" (para 5). "For both cases — the femicide and the Bécquer case — 'the full weight of the law' has been requested, within the framework of the new Penal Code, which provides for more severe penalties for cases of gender-based violence. But it is not about more years of imprisonment or more drastic penalties" (para 10). "As feminists, we appeal to criminal justice based on facts, that it guarantees reparation and non-repetition as minimum prerequisites that accompany criminal justice from situated gender perspectives.1...more
April 9, 2024, 9:31 p.m.
Countries: Cuba
Variables: LRW-PRACTICE-2

"January has once again raised the dust and sadness of the pending debts on gender-based violence in Cuba. The discussion, at least on social networks, has brought back the issue of a comprehensive law against gender-based violence, shelters, the level of severity in sentences, impunity, the invisibility of disappeared women, the lack of accompaniment of the institutions involved and the scant coverage in the press" (para 1). "Re-victimization and lack of gender sensitivity on the part of legal operators, investigators and medical and medical-legal personnel are considered among the main obstacles for victims to come to denounce in the first place and, second, when they do, the complaints prosper or...more
April 9, 2024, 9:31 p.m.
Countries: Cuba
Variables: LRW-PRACTICE-1

"January has once again raised the dust and sadness of the pending debts on gender-based violence in Cuba. The discussion, at least on social networks, has brought back the issue of a comprehensive law against gender-based violence, shelters, the level of severity in sentences, impunity, the invisibility of disappeared women, the lack of accompaniment of the institutions involved and the scant coverage in the press" (para 1).
April 9, 2024, 9:31 p.m.
Countries: Cuba
Variables: LRCM-PRACTICE-1

"Re-victimization and lack of gender sensitivity on the part of legal operators, investigators and medical and medical-legal personnel are considered among the main obstacles for victims to come to denounce in the first place and, second, when they do, the complaints prosper or do not end, as in the Bécquer case, with a sanction that is discordant to the events. Testimonials in this regard abound. State recognition of the problem, too" (para 15).
April 9, 2024, 9:31 p.m.
Countries: Cuba
Variables: DV-PRACTICE-2

"January has once again raised the dust and sadness of the pending debts on gender-based violence in Cuba. The discussion, at least on social networks, has brought back the issue of a comprehensive law against gender-based violence, shelters, the level of severity in sentences, impunity, the invisibility of disappeared women, the lack of accompaniment of the institutions involved and the scant coverage in the press" (para 1). "Re-victimization and lack of gender sensitivity on the part of legal operators, investigators and medical and medical-legal personnel are considered among the main obstacles for victims to come to denounce in the first place and, second, when they do, the complaints prosper or...more
April 9, 2024, 9:31 p.m.
Countries: Cuba
Variables: DV-PRACTICE-1

"There is a lack of protocols, there is a lack of press that educates, there is a lack of inter-institutional cohesion that truly appeals to reduce gender inequalities and that gives Cuban women not a secondary place among its objectives, but a top space, intersected with other forms of discrimination and exclusion" (para 23).
April 9, 2024, 9:31 p.m.
Countries: Cuba
Variables: DV-LAW-2

As feminists, we appeal to criminal justice based on facts, that it guarantees reparation and non-repetition as minimum prerequisites that accompany criminal justice from situated gender perspectives.1 Unfortunately, the new Penal Code does not consider them; on the contrary, what it ponders is severity, without reeducation, without individual or collective transformation regarding events marked by gender-based violence (para 11). "Re-victimization and lack of gender sensitivity on the part of legal operators, investigators and medical and medical-legal personnel are considered among the main obstacles for victims to come to denounce in the first place and, second, when they do, the complaints prosper or do not end, as in the Bécquer case,...more
April 9, 2024, 9:31 p.m.
Countries: Cuba
Variables: DV-LAW-1

"There is a record of progress in essential areas: the Comprehensive Strategy against gender-based and intrafamily violence, the transversal treatment of gender-based violence in regulatory bodies such as the Family Code, the Penal Code and the Criminal Enforcement Law, based on the updating of the National Program for the Advancement of Women. However, they are instruments that are not yet sufficiently grounded in the institutional and political dynamics of the country. The Program will have been approved two years ago and the Strategy for just over one" (para 6-7). "Public entities, the media and civil service officials have obligations and a commitment to the Constitution, which dedicated an entire article...more
April 9, 2024, 9:31 p.m.
Countries: Cuba
Variables: DV-DATA-1

"A piece of data, although outdated (from 2016), from the National Survey on Gender Equality, strongly confirms this: of the 26.7% of Cuban women who were victims of some manifestation of violence in their couple relationship during the previous twelve months to the Survey, only 3.7% requested some type of institutional help (data are only available on couple relationships)" (para 16).
April 9, 2024, 9:31 p.m.
Countries: Cuba
Variables: DTCP-PRACTICE-1, DTCP-LAW-1

"There is a record of progress in essential areas: the Comprehensive Strategy against gender-based and intrafamily violence, the transversal treatment of gender-based violence in regulatory bodies such as the Family Code, the Penal Code and the Criminal Enforcement Law, based on the updating of the National Program for the Advancement of Women. However, they are instruments that are not yet sufficiently grounded in the institutional and political dynamics of the country. The Program will have been approved two years ago and the Strategy for just over one. In turn, they are legal mechanisms that function without a legal instrument that governs and organizes them. Nor does it organize the institutional...more
April 9, 2024, 9:31 p.m.
Countries: Cuba
Variables: CONST-LAW-1

"Public entities, the media and civil service officials have obligations and a commitment to the Constitution, which dedicated an entire article to gender-based violence. It is not a small matter; it occupies Cuban society in a transversal way; therefore, the issue does not escape the institutions" (para 20).
March 31, 2024, 3:14 p.m.
Countries: Burma/Myanmar, Cambodia, Chad, China, Cuba, Djibouti, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Iran, Libya, Nicaragua, North Korea, Papua New Guinea, Russia, Somalia, South Sudan, Turkmenistan, Venezuela, Yemen
Variables: TRAFF-SCALE-1

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March 30, 2024, 10:05 p.m.
Countries: Cuba
Variables: TRAFF-DATA-1

According to the U.S. State Department's 2023 TIP report, Cuba ranks as a Tier 3 country (85).
March 11, 2024, 4:52 p.m.
Countries: Cuba
Variables: IRP-LAW-1

"Is selling sex criminalised? Sex work is technically legal in Cuba. Laws against 'prostitution' were removed in 1976 amidst claims that prostitution had been eradicated from Cuba. There are however other laws that target sex workers. For example loitering and soliciting can be seen as anti-social conduct, which is criminal. Sex workers are vulnerable to arrest, fining and jail time under a range of other laws. Is buying sex criminalised? No. Is organising/managing criminalised? "Pimping" and 'promoting prostitution' are criminal offences." (para 1-3).
Feb. 2, 2024, 6:33 a.m.
Countries: Cuba
Variables: DV-DATA-1

According to 2022 data from the WHO's Global Health Observatory, the proportion of ever-partnered women and girls (aged 15-49) in Cuba who have been subjected to physical and/or sexual violence by a current or former intimate partner in their lifetime is 14 percent (KMM-CODER COMMENT).
Jan. 24, 2024, 3:24 p.m.
Countries: Algeria, Argentina, Azerbaijan, Bahamas, Barbados, Bhutan, Brazil, Brunei, Cape Verde, Colombia, Cuba, Cyprus, Ecuador, El Salvador, Fiji, Guatemala, Honduras, Iraq, Jamaica, Jordan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Libya, Maldives, Mauritius, Mexico, Mongolia, Morocco, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Suriname, Tunisia, Vanuatu
Variables: MMR-SCALE-2

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Jan. 24, 2024, 3:19 p.m.
Countries: Barbados, Cuba, Mongolia
Variables: MMR-SCALE-1

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Jan. 24, 2024, 3:15 p.m.
Countries: Albania, Argentina, Armenia, Australia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Barbados, Belarus, Belgium, Belize, Benin, Bhutan, Bolivia, Botswana, Brazil, Brunei, Bulgaria, Burkina Faso, Burma/Myanmar, Canada, Cape Verde, Central African Rep, Chad, Chile, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cote D'Ivoire, Croatia, Cuba, Cyprus, Czech Republic, D R Congo, Denmark, Dominican Republic, East Timor, Ecuador, El Salvador, Equatorial Guinea, Estonia, Finland, France, Gambia, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Haiti, Honduras, Hungary, Indonesia, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Latvia, Lesotho, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Malawi, Malaysia, Maldives, Mali, Malta, Mauritius, Mexico, Mongolia, Montenegro, Namibia, Netherlands, Nicaragua, Niger, Nigeria, Norway, Panama, Papua New Guinea, Paraguay, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Qatar, Romania, Russia, Rwanda, Serbia, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Suriname, Swaziland, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Thailand, Togo, Trinidad/Tobago, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States, Uruguay, Uzbekistan, Vanuatu, Venezuela, Zambia, Zimbabwe
Variables: ERBG-SCALE-1

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Jan. 24, 2024, 3:06 p.m.
Countries: Afghanistan, Albania, Angola, Argentina, Australia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Bahamas, Belgium, Belize, Bhutan, Bolivia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Botswana, Brazil, Brunei, Bulgaria, Burkina Faso, Burma/Myanmar, Burundi, Cambodia, Canada, Cape Verde, Central African Rep, Chile, China, Colombia, Comoros, Costa Rica, Croatia, Cuba, Cyprus, Czech Republic, D R Congo, Djibouti, Dominican Republic, East Timor, Ecuador, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Fiji, Finland, France, Gabon, Germany, Ghana, Greece, Guatemala, Guinea-Bissau, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Hungary, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kosovo, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Lebanon, Lesotho, Libya, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Madagascar, Malawi, Malaysia, Malta, Mauritius, Montenegro, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Nicaragua, North Korea, Oman, Pakistan, Palestine, Panama, Papua New Guinea, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Rwanda, Senegal, Serbia, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, Somalia, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Suriname, Swaziland, Sweden, Switzerland, Syria, Taiwan, Tajikistan, Tanzania, Thailand, Trinidad/Tobago, Tunisia, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Uganda, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States, Uruguay, Uzbekistan, Vanuatu, Yemen, Zambia, Zimbabwe
Variables: DACH-SCALE-2

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Jan. 24, 2024, 3:03 p.m.
Countries: Algeria, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bahamas, Bangladesh, Belarus, Belize, Bhutan, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Brazil, Brunei, Bulgaria, Cambodia, Cape Verde, Colombia, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Georgia, Guatemala, Honduras, Hungary, Iran, Iraq, Jamaica, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lebanon, Libya, Macedonia, Malaysia, Mauritius, Mexico, Moldova, Mongolia, Montenegro, Morocco, Nicaragua, North Korea, Oman, Palestine, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia, Solomon Islands, Suriname, Syria, Tajikistan, Trinidad/Tobago, Tunisia, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Vanuatu, Venezuela, Vietnam
Variables: DACH-SCALE-1

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Jan. 21, 2024, 11:10 a.m.
Countries: Cuba
Variables: MMR-DATA-1

According to a 2023 report on global trends in maternal mortality from 2000-2020 published by the WHO, UNICEF, UNFPA, World Bank Group, and UNDESA/Population Division, in 2020 the maternal mortality ratio (per 100,000 live births) in Cuba was 39 (KMM-CODER COMMENT).
Jan. 20, 2024, 1:37 p.m.
Countries: Cuba
Variables: ERBG-DATA-2

According to 2023 World Bank Gender Data collected from the most recent ILO modeled estimates from 2020 onwards, the female laborforce participation rate (as a percentage of the female population ages 15+) in Cuba is 41.3% (KMM-CODER COMMENT).
Jan. 7, 2024, 3:30 p.m.
Countries: Cuba
Variables: DACH-DATA-1

According to the World Bank, as of 2021, life expectancy in Cuba is 76 years for women and 71 years for men (KMM-CODER COMMENT).
Dec. 28, 2023, 2:18 p.m.
Countries: Cuba
Variables: DACH-DATA-1

According to 2019 data from the WHO's Global Health Observatory, average life expectancy in Cuba is 75.4 years for men and 80.3 years for women (KMM-CODER COMMENT).
Oct. 12, 2023, 3:59 p.m.
Countries: Albania, Argentina, Armenia, Australia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Bahamas, Bahrain, Barbados, Belarus, Belgium, Bhutan, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Brazil, Brunei, Bulgaria, Canada, Chile, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, Croatia, Cuba, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, El Salvador, Estonia, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Iran, Ireland, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Kosovo, Kuwait, Latvia, Lebanon, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Malaysia, Maldives, Malta, Mauritius, Mexico, Moldova, Montenegro, Netherlands, New Zealand, North Korea, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Qatar, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Korea, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Thailand, Trinidad/Tobago, Tunisia, Turkey, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States, Uruguay, Venezuela, Vietnam
Variables: BR-SCALE-1

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