Book launch at the Buenos Aires legislature

The the Esteban Echeverría Library of the City of Buenos Aires Legislature hosted the book launch for 75 Years of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights: Cuban Perspectives.

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The panelists presenting the book were Paula Bertol, Horacio Ravenna, Alain Espinosa, and Gabriel C. Salvia.

Photo courtesy of the General Office of Press and Legislative Publishing of the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires.

Horacio Ravenna is a lawyer and former member of the Permanent Assembly for Human Rights. He was the Director of Human Rights during the government of Raúl Alfonsín and has served on UN’s Committee against Forced Disappearance since 2017.

Photo courtesy of the General Office of Press and Legislative Publishing of the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires.

Paula Bertol is a lawyer, mediator, former legislator of the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires, former National Deputy, and former Ambassador to the OAS for the Argentine Republic.

Photo courtesy of the General Office of Press and Legislative Publishing of the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires.

Alain Espinosa is a CUBALEX lawyer.

Photo courtesy of the General Office of Press and Legislative Publishing of the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires.

Gabriel C. Salvia is the General Director of CADAL and the editor of the book “75 Years of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights: Perspectives from Cuba”.

Photo courtesy of the General Office of Press and Legislative Publishing of the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires.

The book’s contributing authors are: Manuel Cuesta Morúa (Havana, 1962), historian, political scientist, and political dissident; Julio Antonio Fernández Estrada (Havana, 1975), historian, lawyer, former professor (before his expulsion) at the Universidad de La Habana College of Law, and current resident academic for Harvard University’s David Rockefeller Center of Latin American Studies’ Scholars at Risk program; Reinaldo Escobar (Camagüey, 1947), independent journalist and co-founder (with his wife Yoani Sánchez) of the digital news outlet 14ymedio. The book includes the speech given at the UN by art critic Guy Pérez de Cisneros before the vote to adopt the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948). Also included is the Declaration itself, with 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). The prologue was written by Cuban anthropologist and cultural promoter Hilda Landrove, who now lives in Mexico.

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