Periodico 26

The Cuban Government recently launched a State Plan for the Confrontation of Violence and Trafficking in Persons. This topic transcended in the master lecture offered by the Cuban jurist Lidia Guevara Ramírez, Secretary of Women of the Latin American Association of Labor Lawyers.

Las Tunas, Cuba.- Guevara Ramírez who is a member of the board of directors of the Cuban Society of Labor Law, was invited to the Seventh National Conference of Legal Advice, which was held for three days in Las Tunas. The meeting was attended by 250 advisers and legal consultants from all sectors of more than 12 provinces of the Island.

The lecture of the Master of Science, sparked an interesting debate on this problem, increasingly growing worldwide. According to data from the United Nations, more than 89 million people in the world are victims of exploitation, of them, more than 24 million are subjected to forced labor and the most vulnerable groups are children and women.

The researcher said that "trafficking of this type does not refer to a single fact, there are several phenomena that are made by coercion, kidnapping or deception. It is the movement of human beings inside or outside the country for the purpose of sexual or labor exploitation, of debt bondage and, above all, with the use of children, their favorite victims are women, because in most cases it leads to forced prostitution ".

She added that "the issue is alerted in our nation with the aim of analyzing it and applying tools from education." Among the issues that concern are the hiring of minors in jobs, which has occurred in the non-state sector, and others facts also prohibited by Cuban laws. "

The lawyer José Sarmiento Paizán, of the Consulting and Legal Advice Company of Santiago de Cuba, made a warning call about nationally-made videoclips circulating in the "weekly package", in which there is a large exhibition of young girls. He commented that "behind many of these materials, the purpose is to exhibit them as objects of commercialization".

Likewise, Emilio Castillo, legal advisor of the State Reserve in Camagüey, emphasized that "these facts are latent in our neighborhoods and we can not face it only from the Law. We must also address it from the role of the family and with the accompaniment of the schools and the media".

The meeting was dedicated to the outstanding Cuban revolutionary and constitutionalist Juan Marinello. More than 20 papers were presented on topics such as economic update, hiring, security and protection at work and manifestations of crime and corruption in companies.

Yordanis Álvarez, president of the Union of Jurists of Cuba in the territory, told 26 Digital that this event has been consolidated as a space for updating and exchange of experiences, in order to build a right guarantor of the ethical and moral principles of the Cuban social system. He explained that legal advice should be a map and compass in decision making in any sector in which it is deployed.