According to the organizers of the solidarity meeting, held in New York, Cuba is amid a domestic debate involving as many as 78,000 meetings over the new ‘Family Code’ Bill.
The meeting is attended by the Federation of Cuban Women (FMC, in Spanish) delegation to the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW66) headed by its Secretary-General Teresa Amarelle.
Participants will address why it´s necessary to build solidarity with FMC to put an end to the US blockade.
Among panelists to the Conference are Jan Strout, Collaboration of American Women and Cuba and Women United: Organizing for a Global Feminist Future!, Kathryn Trujillo-Hall, Founder of Birthing Project, USA and Ambassador of the International Federation for Gender and Human Rights (FIGHR), among others.
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