Kathryn Hall-Trujillo, MPH, left, and Ambassador Lianys Torres Rivera, right, will speak at a March 14 webinar celebrating Cuban women.

By the Cuba and the Bolivarian Alliance Issue Committee

March 2021

“Feminist Solidarity! Celebrating International Women’s Day and the Advancement of Cuban Women”: Webinar to be held on March 14, at 2 pm PST, 3 pm MST, 4 pm CST, 5 pm EST
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With this event, we will celebrate International Women’s Day and Women’s History Month, connecting with the UN Commission on the Status of Women on the 25th Anniversary of the Beijing Platform for Action on Global Women’s Human Rights.

We will celebrate the advancement of the women’s rights agenda in Cuba and Cuban women’s contributions in the fight against COVID-19.

But we must also offer an overview of how the pandemic has exacerbated the conditions of women globally, including in the US and Cuba. We will propose solutions and present steps that people the audience can take as part of those solutions.

Featured Speakers

Ambassador Lianys Torres Rivera currently serves as Chargé d’Affaires for the Embassy of Cuba in Washington, DC. 

She will speak on the role of the Federation of Cuban Women and status of Cuban women, advancement of a women’s rights agenda under the Cuban revolution, and Cuba’s compliance with the Beijing Platform on Women’s rights.

Kathryn Hall-Trujillo, MPH, is Founding Director of the Birthing Project, and an award-winning public health administrator, professor, and activist. She is visiting faculty at the Cuba National School of Public Health and serves on the Medical Advisory Board of IFCO as the administrator for US scholarships to Cuba’s ELAM.

She will speak on global pandemic issues for women and girls at the intersections of healthcare, education, mental health, economic security, and land rights, including women implementing solutions. 

Cultural Presentation: Isabella Borgesona Filipina mixed race, queer award-winning poet, is also a community organizer and educator from poetryfoundation.org  

On the international level, Cuba has been a leader for women’s rights. Cuba legalized abortion in 1965, the first country in Latin America to do so by 30 years, and 8 years before the US Supreme Court’s Roe v Wade decision. Cuba was the first country in the world to sign the Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination against Women, and the second to ratify it. In Cuba, women currently represent 66.4% of those engaged in professional and technical work, and 66% of government officials, as well as about half of the representatives in parliament.

Don’t miss this global feminist perspective, with a chance to ask questions included!

Sponsors:

• Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom – US 
• US Women and Cuba Collaboration
• US-Cuba Normalization Committee

Co-Sponsors:

• NOW’s Global Feminism National Committee
• Code Pink
• A Legacy of Equality and Organizing (LELO)
• Gallatin Valley Friends of Cuba
• Birthing Project USA
• National Network On Cuba
• Canadian Network on Cuba
• New York-New Jersey Cuba Sí Coalition
• Table de concertation et de solidarité Québec – Cuba
• The International Committee for Peace, Justice and Dignity
• U.S.-Cuba-Canada Campaign for Medical Collaboration