Perspectivas / Perspectives

El Consejo para la Transición Democrática en Cuba (CTDC), como el Partido Demócrata Cristiano de Cuba, (PDC) la Unión Liberal Cubana, (ULC)y la Asociación Sindical Cubana (ASIC) consideran un paso de avance muy importante y de enorme valor, inicialmente simbólico, y en breve práctico, que la Eurocámara respaldase sancionar y multar a empresas que socaven los derechos humanos y el medio ambiente. Y a este tenor, el Pleno del Parlamento Europeo ha resuelto favorablemente este jueves 1 de junio de 2023, «presionar a aquellas empresas que no respeten los derechos humanos o el medio ambiente con sanciones y multas que van desde medidas como "nombrar y avergonzar (name and shame)" hasta retirar del mercado los productos de una empresa o imponer multas de al menos el 5% de su facturación mundial neta».

Forced disappearances … physical abuse … prolonged detentions without trial of monks, nuns, and other persons.”

These are excerpts from the US State Department’s latest report on religious freedom in Tibet. The details are dire, flagrant, and shocking:

• China’s authorities have forced Tibetan Buddhists to replace images of the Dalai Lama with pictures of CCP leaders like Mao Zedong and Xi Jinping.
• Nearly one million Tibetan children have been separated from their families and sent to state-run schools where they learn “patriotic education” in an effort to cut them off from their native Tibetan culture and language.
• In a disturbing overreach, China’s authorities have systematically collected DNA from one-quarter to one-third of the Tibetan Autonomous Region’s Population.

The State Department released its 2022 Report on International Religious Freedom, chronicling a comprehensive view of freedom and belief around the world—including in Tibet. The report’s Tibet section calls out multiple human rights violations, including the unjust detention of peaceful protestors, the abduction of the Panchen Lama, the separation of children from their families into residential schools, DNA sampling, and evicting thousands of monks and nuns from Buddhist monasteries.