Cuba: new regulations on working women’s maternity come into force
The regulations seek to ensure and facilitate medical care during pregnancy, pre and postnatal rest, breastfeeding and, for both parents, ...
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Request for Comprehensive Law against gender-based violence in Cuba
What has happened and what has not happened two years later?
Cuban Council of State approves five decree-laws, one of them related to maternity
The secretary general of the Federation of Cuban Women (FMC), Teresa Amarelle Boué stressed that the norm referring to working ...
Impact of U.S. sanctions on Cuban and Cuban-American women and vulnerable populations
A negligent policy leading to an immigration crisis could cost Biden the re-election he so much seeks to secure.
Afro-descendant women in Cuba and the Task of Reorganization (I)
Under what conditions do Afro-descendant women get to the Task of Reorganization in Cuba and how can economic policies be ...
Women sports reporters: leading voices
When Julita Osendi said that if she did not exist another woman would have come to do the same, it ...
8M: we stop
The question of whether we Cuban women would have reasons to join the global strike is, at the very least, ...
Do Cuban women fear COVID-19 more than men?
Help us keep OnCuba alive The results of the study “Gender and Fear of COVID-19 in a Cuban Population Sample“ ...
Cuba: (Feminist) requests to political society and civil society in the face of COVID-19
On December 31, 2019, the World Health Organization (WHO) got the first coronavirus alert from Wuhan, China. Since then we ...
The pandemic does not discriminate; inequalities do: women cushioning the crisis
With COVID-19, the world is facing two interconnected but not identical realities: it exhibits and sharpens pre-existing inequalities and generates ...
Cuban women learn jiu-jitsu to protect themselves against abuse
The change begins by taking off jewelry, makeup and everything that hinders you to fight. “We ask the young women ...
Cuban women request from Parliament Integral Law against Gender Violence
Yesterday, 40 Cuban women have exercised their citizen right by submitting a request for a Comprehensive Law against Gender Violence ...
“All those women are from Cuba”
"All those women were from Cuba. They separated them. They were in a cell without water. From that cell, a ...
First data on femicide in Cuba
Cuba joins the list of countries speaking about femicides. This was acknowledged by official sources at the end of last ...
Creativas^2, artists and entrepreneurs from Miami and Havana
Four women, artists and entrepreneurs, traveled from Havana to Miami to participate in the Creativas event this May 5. It ...
Women’s “special periods” in Cuba
In March 1990 Fidel Castro gave the closing speech of the 5th Congress of the Federation of Cuban Women (FMC). ...
Blanca Rosa Blanco: “I’m afraid of labels”
Spring came to the cold northern state of Minnesota and with it the visit of Cuban actress ̶ and now ...
