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Despite a tense relationship, the United States and Cuba have found a new topic on which the two countries can sit and talk: the rights of people with disabilities.
According to Humanity & Inclusion, around one third of people with disabilities in Cuba have an intellectual disability. [1] Around 3.2% have a severe disability. [2] Recent numbers, in 2018, showed that there were 447,674 people with disabilities living in the country and 46.3 percent of this number were women.
Cuba's communist regime has a history of exploiting its medical personnel by forcing them to work in difficult conditions and restricting their travel and communication rights, and it is time for ...
1996 Republican nominee for President of the United States: Injured arm in World War II [27] Tammy Duckworth: Democratic: Illinois: U.S. Senator U.S. Representative: Lost both of her legs and damaged her right arm due to a rocket propelled grenade attack in the Iraq War [28] John Porter East: Republican: North Carolina: U.S. Senator
American politicians with a disability. This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:American politicians . It includes politicians that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent.
But ramping up pressure on Cuba again after more than 60 years of US economic sanctions was unlikely to force the government to adopt political reforms said Peter Kornbluh, the co-author of ...
U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice convenes a meeting of the Commission in December 2005. The United States Commission for Assistance to a Free Cuba (CAFC) was created by United States President George W. Bush on October 10, 2003, to, according to him, explore ways the U.S. can help hasten and ease a democratic transition in Cuba.
In 2010, the Catholic Church brokered a deal for Cuba’s government to release jailed dissidents, something that helped thaw relations with the U.S. during the presidency of Barack Obama.