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Executions
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20 executions |
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[20th of 33]
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Illicit drugs
territorial waters and air space serve as transshipment zone for US- and European-bound drugs; established the death penalty for certain drug-related crimes in 1999 |
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Murders committed by youths
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15 |
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[15th of 73]
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Murders committed by youths per capita
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16 |
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[16th of 0]
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Prisoners
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156 prisoners |
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[156th of 164]
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Prisoners > Per capita
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157 per 100,000 people |
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[157th of 164]
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Transnational Issues > Trafficking in persons > Current situation
Cuba is a source country for women and children trafficked for the purposes of sexual exploitation and forced child labor; Cuba is a major destination for sex tourism, which largely caters to European, Canadian, and Latin American tourists and involves large numbers of minors; there are reports that Cuban women have been trafficked to Mexico for sexual exploitation; forced labor victims also include children coerced into working in commercial agriculture |
Transnational Issues > Trafficking in persons > Tier rating
Tier 3 - Cuba does not fully comply with the minimum standards for the elimination of trafficking and is not making significant efforts to do so |
United States extradition treaties > Citation
33 Stat. 2265; TS 440; 6 Bevans 1128.
44 Stat. 2392; TS 737; 6 Bevans 1136; 61 LNTS 363.
33 Stat. 2273; TS 441; 6 Bevans 1134. |
United States extradition treaties > Date signed
April 6, 1904
December 6, 1904
January 14, 1926 |
United States extradition treaties > Entered into force
March 2, 1905
March 2, 1905
June 18, 1926 |
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Unpaid diplomatic parking fines
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61 |
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[61st of 116]
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SOURCES: Number of known executions in the country (Data is for 1998). Because these figures include only documented cases; the true figures are likely to be much higher.; Crime statistics are often better indicators of prevalence of law enforcement and willingness to report crime, than actual prevalence.
; Homicide rates among youths aged 10–29 years by country or area: most recent year available (variable 1990–1999).; Homicide rate per 100,000 population aged 10–29 years; Data for 2003. Number of prisoners held. Different reporting practices mean that that statistics, whilst broadly correct, are not exact. For example, the U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics reporst that a further 110,284 juveniles were held in custodial institutions at October 2000 and a further 1,912 in 'jails in Indian country' at 30.6.2001.; Data for 2003. Number of prisoners held per 100,000 population.; Trafficking in persons is modern-day slavery, involving victims who are forced, defrauded, or coerced into labor or sexual exploitation. The International Labor Organization (ILO), the UN agency charged with addressing labor standards, employment, and social protection issues, estimates that 12.3 million people worldwide are enslaved in forced labor, bonded labor, forced child labor, sexual servitude, and involuntary servitude at any given time. Human trafficking is a multi-dimensional threat, depriving people of their human rights and freedoms, risking global health, promoting social breakdown, inhibiting development by depriving countries of their human capital, and helping fuel the growth of organized crime. In 2000, the US Congress passed the Trafficking Victims Protection Act (TVPA), reauthorized in 2003 and 2005, which provides tools for the US to combat trafficking in persons, both domestically and abroad. One of the law's key components is the creation of the US Department of State's annual Trafficking in Persons Report, which assesses the government response in some 150 countries with a significant number of victims trafficked across their borders who are recruited, harbored, transported, provided, or obtained for forced labor or sexual exploitation. Countries in the annual report are rated in three tiers, based on government efforts to combat trafficking. The countries identified in this entry are those listed in the 2006 Trafficking in Persons Report as Tier 2 Watch List or Tier 3 based on the following definitions:
Tier 2 Watch List countries do not fully comply with the minimum standards for the elimination of trafficking but are making significant efforts to do so, and meet one of the following criteria:
1. they display a high or significantly increasing number victims,
2. they have failed to provide evidence of increasing efforts to combat trafficking in persons, or,
3. they have committed to take action over the next year.
Tier 3 countries neither satisfy the minimum standards for the elimination of trafficking nor demonstrate a significant effort to do so. Countries in this tier are subject to potential non-humanitarian and non-trade sanctions.
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; Number of unpaid parking fines incurred in Britain in 1991 by diplomats protected by diplomatic immunity. According to Mr Lennox-Boyd, Forty alleged serious offences by persons entitled to diplomatic immunity were drawn to the attention of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in 1991. "Serious offences" are defined in accordance with the Report to the Foreign Affairs Committee "The Abuse of Diplomatic Immunities and Privileges"--1985--as offences falling into a category which would in certain circumstances attract a maximum penalty of six months or more imprisonment. The majority involved drinking and driving, and shoplifting. Seven diplomats were withdrawn from their posts in Britain in 1991 following alleged offences, as against six in the previous year.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES:
Cuba, Republic of Cuba, Republica de Cuba
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