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The U.N. Recommends U.S. Lift Embargo

  • sandrabaird114
  • May 15, 2020
  • 1 min read

"The United States must urgently lift its blockade on Cuba to save lives amid the expanding COVID-19 crisis, UN human rights experts stressed on Thursday, emphasizing that the more than six-decades-old sanctions are impeding the supply of medicine, medical equipment, food and other goods essential to surviving the pandemic. " This was a joint statement by UN special rapporteurs, independent experts and working groups, as reported on UN News.


UN Cuba Health personnel from the Pedro Kourí Institute of Tropical Medicine in Havana, Cuba

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