The export of Cuban doctors is modern slavery August 24 - The Brazilian government has entered into an agreement with the Cuban government to send 4,000 Cuban doctors to remote locations of Brazilwith direct payment to Cuba. The International Group for Corporate Social Responsibility in Cuba (GIRSCC for its abbreviation in Spanish) contends that the export of doctors as workers of the Cuban government violates the basic labor rights of these doctors as well as of doctors in the host countries. In this regard, it supports the opposition to this program expressed by the National Federation of Doctors and the Federal Council on Medicine of Brazil. GIRSCC and the Cuba Archive project have collected many testimonies from Cuban doctors who have served under similar agreements in many countries of Africa, Latin America and the Middle East, after they were able to skirt their surveillance and fled to other countries. These accounts confirm that the Cuban health professionals must work under conditions of servitude that violate international conventions of the International Labour Organization (ILO), and that also constitute trafficking in persons. Cuba is fertile ground for such exploitation, since the state is the sole employer of these professionals. They are paid between $ 25 and $ 40 per month, in addition to being denied to leave the country without permission (despite the recent immigration reform of 2012 that eliminates the exit permit for most Cuban citizens). Fonte: therealcuba
Posted on: Sun, 25 Aug 2013 02:48:48 +0000
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