The U.N. Human Rights Comission, the U.N.’s human rights watchdog in Geneva, received a letter from over 200 activists, artists and intellectuals to not pass a resolution condemning Cuba, a move seen as legitimizing anti-Cuban aggression by the Bush White House, and further stating that considering the human rights abuses in Guantanamo Prison, the U.S. was not morally justified in condemning Cuba. Among the individual intellectuals that signed the bill were Nobel Prize winning authors Rigoberta Menchu of Guatemala, South Africa’s Nadine Gordimer, and Portugal’s Jose Saramago. Some of the American signatories included actor Danny Glover and author Alice Walker.