The gender perspective as a problem present in the audiovisual and the importance of social transformation from art was one of the topics addressed in the theoretical section of the 17th edition of the Gibara International Film Festival (FICGibara).
Read more Genre under debate at Gibara Int’l Film Festival
The Federation of Cuban Women (FMC) celebrates today 63 years of its foundation focused on the development of policies to achieve the full exercise of equality of women in all areas of society.
The protection of coral reefs, highly vulnerable to climate change, is the main objective of a project developed in the province of Holguín, where one of the largest reserves in the Caribbean area is preserved.
Read more Holguín boosts project for the protection of coral reefs
Some 605,000 people were self employed in Cuba in late May 2019, the Minister of Labor and Social Security (MTSS), Margarita Gonzalez, told MPs on Tuesday.Speaking in the debate on the behavior of this non-state form of employment (private entrepreneurship), which has grown after the process of economic updating, Gonzalez said that women make up 35 percent of them and young people, 32 percent.
Havana (capital), Matanzas, Villa Clara, Camaguey, Holguin and Santiago de Cuba have the highest number of people working in this modality with 65 percentage points.
In the analysis of the Economic Commission of the Cuban parliament, the MP referred that food production and sale, passenger transport and cargo and housing, room or space renters remain the most representative activities.
MTSS data reflect some 128 activities licensed for self-employment in Cuba.
Since this Monday, the 10 permanent commissions of the National Assembly of People's Power, assembled in the Havana Convention Center, are analyzing essential issues for the progress in Cuba. /PL
The Center for Research and Rehabilitation of Hereditary Ataxias (Cirah) in Holguín deserved a new award from the Cuban Academy of Sciences (ACC).
Read more Cuban Academy of Sciences awards study on Ataxias
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