Perspectivas / Perspectives

International Campaign for Tibet, Sept.20.– Warm greetings from DC, where I have just returned from an inspiring trip to Dharamsala! 

High up in the Dhauladhar mountains of Northern India, the small hill town of Dharamsala is where His Holiness the Dalai Lama has established the Tibetan government-in-exile since he was forced to escape Tibet after the Chinese occupation. It’s been the heart of the Tibetan community-in-exile and the seat of the Central Tibetan Administration ever since, as well as the site of the Tibetan Parliament-in-Exile, numerous monasteries, schools, and cultural institutions. Several thousand Tibetans live in Dharamsala, including His Holiness the Dalai Lama.

This is where our boards and leadership team came together to learn and strategize how we can better advance the Tibetan cause. Through meetings with key stakeholders in the Central Tibetan Administration (CTA), His Holiness’ private office, and other members of Tibetan civil society, we are working to chart the way forward to be the most effective advocates for Tibet and the Tibetan people.

Close communication and a deeper understanding of the efforts of the Tibetan leadership in Dharamsala are of the utmost necessity. ICT, ICT Europe, and ICT Germany staff and board were all represented as we explored how we can continue to partner with the Tibetan community-in-exile with a united front of advocacy in the US, Europe, and globally.

El gobierno de Cuba consolida el trabajo forzoso como su principal motor económico, exportando su producción a Canadá, Noruega, Reino Unido, la UE y el mundo entero.

El presente informe de denuncia expone la alarmante situación del trabajo forzoso en los centros penitenciarios cubanos, revelando y demostrando, sin dar lugar a la duda, la dolorosa y criminal situación de trabajo forzoso ejercido por el Estado, con fines económicos y punitivos sobre un total de 60 mil de entre los 90 mil internos penales y 37.458 sancionados en régimen abierto en el país.

Este informe de denuncia documenta con total precisión cualitativa y cuantitativa cómo los presos son sometidos a condiciones inhumanas y explotadoras en una desconexión absoluta e impune de la legislación internacional y cualquier derecho laboral. Por medio de un exhaustivo análisis de toda la legislación cubana a lo largo de este informe de denuncia, además, demostramos cómo las leyes en Cuba amparan de manera impúdica y explícita el trabajo forzoso de los reos y sancionados.

La elaboración de carbón, agrícola, de tabaco o el corte de caña bajo las más inhumanas condiciones de esclavitud, y la producción obtenida de tales labores, es destinada en su totalidad a la exportación, fundamentalmente a países europeos como, por este orden, España, Portugal, Italia, Grecia y Turquía, entre otros. Por primera vez en muchos años, Cuba enfrenta crecientes señalamientos internacionales, incluso hace apenas meses en el Comité de Derechos Humanos de las Naciones Unidas (A/HRC/57/46), por someter a personas privadas de libertad a formas contemporáneas de esclavitud para la producción de bienes destinados a la exportación.

A group of experts has released a new report that critically analyzes claims that Israel committed crimes against humanity during the Israel-Gaza War. The study covers from October 7, 2023, to June 1, 2025, including intentional killings, premeditated starvation, and even "genocide."  In order to separate propaganda from fact and expose structural flaws in significant worldwide communication organizations, the study employs a special combination of quantitative-statistical analysis, forensic documentation, primary sources, and comparative military history.

The authors emphasize that their objective is not legal or moral exoneration, but a rigorous factual analysis of the methodologies and evidence behind genocide claims. Accordingly, this study adheres to the highest academic and evidentiary standards. The authors do not speak for any government or political entity. The publication is forthcoming from the Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies at Bar-Ilan University. 

Among the findings, the study reveals that there is no basis for the starvation claims because more food entered Gaza during the war than before October 7, 2023. The claim that 500 aid trucks are required daily stems from a misrepresentation by UN bodies, one which has been left unchallenged and unchecked. Pre-war UN records cite an average of 73 food trucks per day in 2022. During the fighting (until January 17, 2025), the Coordination and Liaison Administration of the Gaza Strip (COGAT) recorded an average of 101 food trucks daily, whereas retroactively corrected but still incomplete UNRWA data indicated 83 food trucks per day. The study reveals that severe food shortages are being caused by Hamas' actions, which seize most of the cargo and stockpile it for trading.

As set forth in the Genocide Convention of 1948, ”the crime of genocide requires that a perpetrator kill, seriously harm, or inflict conditions of life calculated to bring about the destruction of a group, in whole or in part, with the intent to destroy the group as such.” However, according to the University Network for Human Rights (UNHR), a consortium of human rights centers at colleges across the world, has released its finding, “after reviewing the facts established by independent human rights monitors, journalists, and United Nations agencies, we conclude that Israel’s actions in and regarding Gaza since October 7, 2023, violate the Genocide Convention.” 

Rolando Cartaya, director de la Fundación para los DDHH en Cuba y redactor del informe, hizo hincapié en los largos apagones en la isla, que provocaron el descontento ciudadano.

Sept. 3.– El Observatorio Cubano de Conflictos (OCC) contabilizó un récord para su historia de 1.023 protestas, denuncias y acciones cívicas en la isla en agosto pasado, "un mes en el que los cubanos expresaron fuertemente su hastío por los constantes apagones y la cada vez más crítica falta de agua corriente y otros servicios públicos; los desafíos al Estado policial continuaron estallando en calles, muros y redes sociales; y las denuncias por inseguridad ciudadana experimentaron una alarmante duplicación en su saldo de muertes, desapariciones, violencia y delincuencia", señaló la organización en su más reciente reporte.

En diálogo con Infobae, Rolando Cartaya, director de la Fundación para los Derechos Humanos en Cuba y redactor del informe, sostuvo que: