Cuban constitution

Cuba’s new Family Code, passed in a referendum with 67% of the vote, expands women’s, children’s, and LGBTQ people’s legal rights

The new Family Code, drafted in consultation with the general public, is considered to be the world’s most inclusive and progressive code

Legislation amends 1976 text to expand the rights of the LGBTQIA community and may come into effect from April

With a vast majority having ratified the new socialist constitution for Cuba, we take a look at some of the crucial issues addressed in it and the whole of process of making it

An Interview with Yamil Marero, Senior Official of the Cuban Institute for Friendship with the Peoples