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Cuba

Cuba is an authoritarian state. The 2019 constitution codifies that Cuba remains a one-party system in which the Communist Party is the only legal political party. The president is the first secretary of the Communist Party, the highest political entity of the state by law. The elections were neither free nor fair nor competitive. Government officials, at the direction of their superiors, committed numerous human rights abuses. As a matter of policy, officials failed to investigate or prosecute those who committed these abuses. Impunity for the perpetrators remained widespread, as was impunity for official corruption. There were reports that members of the security forces committed numerous abuses. The government did not take significant steps to identify and punish officials who may have committed human rights abuses.

The overall score indicates that there are severe risks of potential human rights violations in this country. This may also include the tourism sector. Relevant risks for the tourism sector are, e.g.:
  • Government corruption
  • Extensive gender-based violence
  • Lack of investigation of and accountability for gender-based violence
  • Trafficking in persons, incl. forced labor
  • Outlawing of independent trade unions and significant and systemic restrictions on workers' freedom of association

For better comparability, we have converted the original scores of the indices to a uniform scale of 1-100 (1 most negative, 100 most positive).

In the following table you find these recalculated values and the original score in brackets behind them.

For information and a link to the original index click on "?" in the table.

The Overall Score is the geometric mean of all converted values for each country. It is subcategorized in five risk categories with colour gradations that can be seen in the map.

You can find more details on the methodology here.

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Overall Score

40/100

Human Development Index

76,4/100 (0,764)

Kids Rights Index

80,4/100 (0,804)

Children's Rights in the Workplace Index

68,0/100 (3,2)

Global Slavery Index

57,0/100 (43,0)

Trafficking in persons report

12,5/100 (T3)

Fragile States Index

59,9/100 (50,4)

Freedom in the World Index

12,0/100 (12)

Environmental Performance Index

52,3/100 (52,3)

Corruption Perceptions Index

42,0/100 (42)

Equality Index

77,0/100 (77)