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They create the International Committee of Women for Democracy in Cuba and present the Buenos Aires Memorandum.
Buenos Aires, August 8 2005/Cuban Democratic Directorate. Over 30 women leaders from Europe and Latin America signed the “Buenos Aires Memorandum” on Sunday. The document calls on international solidarity to demand freedom for all prisoners of conscience, and respect for the human rights of all the Cuban people, amongst other points.
The Buenos Aires Memorandum constitutes the result of a conference held in Buenos Aires, Argentina on the 5, 6, and 7 of August 2005. The conference counted on the local support of the Centro para la Apertura y el Desarrollo de América Latina (Center for Liberalism and Development of Latin America - CADAL) and the Konrad Adenauer foundation, and included the participation of former and present state officials, leaders of regional and international organisms, intellectuals, academics, journalists, human rights activists, and activists from non-governmental organizations, European and Latin American members of Parliament, and representatives of the Cuban Civic Movement, who constituted “the International Committee of Women for Democracy in Cuba” yesterday afternoon.
BUENOS AIRES MEMORANDUM
During the 5th and 6th of August 2005, we have gathered in Buenos Aires, capital of the Argentine Republic, a group of women representing countries of Latin America, Eastern and Western Europe, determined to support the demands of freedom for all Cuban Prisoners of Conscience and democratic change on the island. This conference included the participation of former and current state officials, leaders of regional and international organisms, intellectuals, academics, journalists, human rights activists, and activists from non-governmental organizations, members of parliament, and representatives of the Cuban civic movement, who decided to create the “International Committee of Women for Democracy in Cuba”.
This said, and considering that the international democratic community cannot remain in silence when faced with these abuses, and much less the governments of those countries that have suffered terrible systematic human rights violations, we call on the democratic countries to prove their defense of human rights and, in the case of Cuba, we demand the following:
- We request that our governments demand that Fidel Castro’s regime free all the political prisoners, in compliance with the international pacts which it has signed for the promotion of democracy and the defense of human rights.
-To make an official diplomatic tie between our embassies in Havana, with the family members of Cuban political prisoners, and open the doors of the embassies, especially the Latinamerican embassies, to the Ladies in White, and to the non-violent opposition, following thus the actions implemented by the European countries.
- We resolve that the free women of the world should listen to, and join in solidarity with the Ladies in White and all the Cuban women human rights activists, inviting them to our international forums, so that they may have a voice and we may support them in their challenges, and their battles to achieve them.
- Soliciting our governments to demand the presence of international organisms and human rights organizations, to verify the situation of the political prisoners and the Cuban reality.
-Raising awareness amongst the investors in Cuba, concerning their social responsibility with the promotion of democracy, the development of the Cuban people, and the eradication of sexual tourism.
-Stimulating a worldwide campaign of adoption of Cuban political prisoners and their families, offering them support, and keeping track of and informing others of their situation.
-Initiating a campaign to collect signatures from democratic leaders in our countries advocating for a general amnesty for all Cuban political Prisoners.
Partial List of Signatures:
Adriana González Carrillo- Member of Parliament- México Adriana Núñez – Costa Rica Andrea Carriso- Argentina Beatriz Castañanza- Guatemala Beatriz Castillo- Uruguay Blanca González- Cuba-Exile Elizabeth Canales- Mayor- Perú Elsa Pereyra- Argentina Elvia Navarro –Member of Parliament- Costa Rica Flavia Vecellio- Argentina Glenda Rondón – Uruguay Irma Salinas de Neme- Argentina Janes Melo - Brasil Margarita Reyes Galván- Uruguay María Clara Forréis- Argentina María del Milagro Méndez- Costa Rica María Gabriela Panelli- Argentina María Guadalupe Suárez- Member of Parliament- México María Irene Russeau- Argentina María Lima- Cuba-Exile María Marta Maenza – Argentina María Mercedes Llano- Argentina María Teresa Reviriego- Argentina Mariana Aylwin- Former Minister of Education- Chile Marisa Garnica- Argentina Micaela Lednova- Slovakia Mireya Zamora Alvarado-Costa Rica Morelia García – Member of Parliament – Guatemala Paola Ximena Silva- Colombia Renata Kalenska- Czech Republic Sandra Etcheverry- Member of Parliament-Uruguay Silvia Pardo- Argentina Soledad Morgan- Uruguay Teresa Peltier- Argentina Virginia López- Argentina
