First Event: March 13th @ 6:30 - 8:30 pm ET

 

CUBA: MODEL FOR IMPLEMENTING

THE BEIJING PLATFORM FOR ACTION

Thursday, March 13, 2025  @ 6:30 – 8.30pm  Eastern Time

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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 (www.womenandcuba.org)

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.

 

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Second Event: March 19th @ 4:30 - 6:00 pm ET

 

CUBA’S FAMILIES CODE:

REDEFINING THE GLOBAL FIGHT

FOR LGBTQIA2S+ RIGHTS

 

LESBIANS AND ALLIES PROJECT
US Women and Cuba Collaboration

NGO CSW69 Virtual Parallel Event

 

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 19, 2025

4:30 - 6pm ET

 

 

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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, CoChair, Lesbians & Allies Project, United States (she/her)

 

Co-Sponsors:

·      WILPF-US | Cuba and the Bolivarian Alliance Issues Committee

·      Fundacion MUJER & MUJER

·      ILGA World

·      CHOICE for Youth & Sexuality