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Proven: US sanctions are deadlier for children than Tomahawk cruise missiles.

By Eugene Doyle, Solidarity.co.nz US unilateral sanctions, the kind being imposed on Cuba today, are deadlier for children than war according to a major piece of research published in The Lancet, the world’s leading medical journal ...

NZ anti-war protesters call for independent foreign policy and peaceful planet

COMMENTARY: By Liz Remmerswaal Up to 1000 people joined a March for Peace in Auckland last weekend to demand that Aotearoa New Zealand become a voice for peace rather than a complicit partner in US-led illegal wars ...

End the genocidal siege on Cuba! June 10, 2026

10 Jun New Zealand Cuba Friendship Society Media release The New Zealand Cuba Friendship society condemns the United States’ latest slew of sanctions on Cuba’s sovereign leadership as well as family members of Cuba’s former leaders ...

Open Letter: For peace and sovereignty in Cuba and the world, March 2, 2026

We the undersigned, express our grave concern at the escalating threat to peace and international law following recent US military action against Venezuela and at open threats made by the Trump administration against other sovereign nations, ...

Understanding Cuba’s health system benefits New Zealand

In the last few months of my employment as Executive Director of the Association of Salaried Medical Specialists in 2019, I was asked by many members what I would be doing once I finished work. My ...

Cuba’s unending embargo

Cuba has been under US trade sanctions since 1962 and the past few months have further challenged the Caribbean nation, with tightened economic blockades by America. University of Canterbury lecturer Josephine Varghese and Ambassador Luis Morejon ...

Belly of the Beast
This YouTube channel presents Cuba’s untold stories, from the inside. With hard-hitting journalism and stunning cinematography, the videos inform and inspire, opening eyes and hearts to a country with a unique past and a wide-open future.

The Southern Cross Brigade
This Brigade is organised by friendship societies in Australia and New Zealand, in collaboration with the Cuban Institute for Friendship Amongst Peoples. The organisation maintains links with hundreds of organisations around the world and aims to strengthen international friendship and solidarity.

Cuba Solidarity Aotearoa
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