Lift Cuba embargo or risk many lives lost to COVID-19, UN rights experts warn US

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The United States must urgently lift its blockade on Cuba to save lives amid the expanding COVID-19 crisis, UN human rights experts stressed on Thursday, emphasizing that the more than six-decades-old sanctions are impeding the supply of medicine, medical equipment, food and other goods essential to surviving the pandemic.

UN News – Human Rights
April 30, 2020 at 01:21PM
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