Founded in May 2007 as a coalition of human rights groups, the Council’s mission is to uphold truth and human dignity and systematically gather information to document the worst incidents of human rights violations in Cuba. Courageous members of the island's outlawed, yet growing, peaceful civil society movement serve as “rap­porteurs” –around 500 to date, members of almost 70 different organizations spread throughout the island. Prisoners of conscience also serve as “rapporteurs” from inside 50 prisons, reporting by phone or during family visits on the horrid conditions and abuses, including an alarming rate of deaths. 

One-page summary on the Council: documenting_inside_cuba

Biography of founder, Juan Carlos González Leiva bio_jcgl

Alert of 1/24/2010 on threats: alert_of_1.24.2010

Report for Year 2009 (in Spanish):