Book Presentation: "75 Years of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights: Perspectives from Cuba"

CADAL and El Toque organized the presentation of the book "75 Years of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights: Perspectives from Cuba" in Miami, featuring presentations by jurist Julio Antonio Fernández Estrada, one of the book’s authors, and journalist Mónica Baró Sánchez.

The opening of the presentation was led by José Jasán Nieves, editor of El Toque, with an introduction by Gabriel C. Salvia, General Director of CADAL and compiler of the book. The event took place at the Westchester Regional Library in Miami.

Julio Antonio Fernández Estrada was a Full Professor at the Faculty of Law at the University of Havana from 2013. He is currently a fellow in the Scholars at Risk Program at Harvard University through the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies. Mónica Baró Sánchez is a journalist who won the Gabo Prize from the Gabriel García Márquez Foundation in 2019 and is currently a fellow at New York University.

The authors featured in the book include historian, political scientist, and political dissident Manuel Cuesta Morúa (Havana, 1962); jurist and historian Julio Antonio Fernández Estrada (Havana, 1975), a prestigious former Full Professor—until his expulsion—at the Faculty of Law at the University of Havana, now a fellow in the Scholars at Risk Program at Harvard University through the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies; and independent journalist Reinaldo Escobar (Camagüey, 1947), who, along with his wife Yoani Sánchez, founded the digital newspaper 14ymedio in 2014.

The book includes the speech by art critic Guy Pérez de Cisneros at the presentation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948). It contains the Declaration and each of its articles illustrated by Cuban artists Julio Llópiz-Casal (Havana, 1984), María Esther Lemus Cordero (Havana, 1990), and Renier Quer Figueredo (Havana, 1983). Anthropologist and cultural promoter Hilda Landrove, a Cuban based in Mexico, wrote the foreword.

To download the book for free, click here.

Taken from: CADAL