International Society
for Human Rights annual Conference

RESOLUTION

Konigstein
Alemania
Distribuited by:
Sylvia G. Iriondo
MAR Por Cuba
Ángel De Fana
Plantados
La Nueva Cuba
May 7, 2006

RESOLUTION

WHEREAS, the International Society for Human Rights has convened an annual Conference to assess Cuba's reality under a totalitarian system that violates fundamental freedoms and rights;

WHEREAS, the International Society for Human Rights has expressed grave concerns and recognizes violations of "Freedom of Expression, Freedom of Opinion and Freedom of the Press in Cuba;

WHEREAS, these inalienable rights are systematically denied to the people of Cuba, who face great personal risks and repression, censorship, incarceration and loss of life for exercising their rights to freedom of expression, freedom of opinion and freedom of the press in the island;

WHEREAS, the solidarity of the international community and democratic governments are essential to advance the cause of freedom in Cuba, we welcome the European Parliament Resolution of February 2, 2006 and the Sajarov -Award to Cuban democratic and human rights' activists in the years 2003 and 2005;

WHEREAS, the development and strengthening of Cuba's independent civil society is essential to support the self-determination and will of the Cuban people to be free;

WHEREAS, the repressive regime that rules Cuba has maintained and intensified its brutal repression against pro-democracy and human rights' activists, political prisoners and their families, independent journalists and librarians;

WHEREAS, Cuban political prisoners have been arbitrarily incarcerated and sentenced to long prison terms for their political views and are being held under inhumane conditions in prisons throughout the island;

NOW THEREFORE; BE IT RESOLVED that the International Society for Human Rights, during its annual Conference in Germany:

• Reiterates that it stands together with the Cuban people in their aspirations for a free and democratic Cuba;
• Raises its voice to call attention to the sustained and increased repression, including "acts of repudiation" against all Cubans;
• Urges the European Union to implement a new common policy to help bring about democratic change in the island, and to institute concrete measures, such as developing a list of the worse human rights' violators in order to ban them from entering EU territory, and inviting peaceful members of Cuba's independent civil society to their official events and holiday commemorations;
• Exhorts German and European government officials to implement a policy to provide free Internet and uncensored information access in their Embassies to democratic and human rights' activists, as well as to the Cuban people;
• Denounces the systematic violations of fundamental freedoms and rights of the Cuban people, and urges the U.N. General Assembly and the international community to do everything in their power to exclude Cuba, as well as other systematic human rights' violators from obtaining seats in the newly created Human Rights Council;
• Calls for the immediate and unconditional liberation of all Cuban political prisoners;
• Urges democratic governments and the international community to develop and find ways to support the Cuban people in their quest for democracy.
Subscribed on this Saturday, May 6, 2006 and unanimously ratified by delegates and participants to the annual Conference of the International Society for Human Rights on Sunday, May 7, 2006 in Konigstein, Germany.