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Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 2023 United States Department of State • Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights , and Labor . Venezuela 2023 Human Rights Report . Executive Summary. There were no significant changes in the human rights situation in Venezuela during the year.
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March 25, 2024. The annual Country Reports on Human Rights...
- VENEZUELA 2022 HUMAN RIGHTS REPORT - U.S. Department of State
observers to leave the country before they could present...
- 2023 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices - United ...
- Persecution of Political Opponents, Arrests, and Torture
- Alleged Extrajudicial Killings
- Armed Groups
- Judicial Independence, Impunity For Abuses
- Indigenous Rights and Mining
- Disability Rights
- Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity
- Women’s Rights
- Right to Vote
- Humanitarian Emergency
The government has jailed political opponents and disqualified them from running for office. As of October, the Penal Forum, a network of pro-bono defense lawyers, reported 245 political prisoners. At least 114 political prisoners have spent more than three years in pretrial detention, despite time limits included in a recent Criminal Code reform. ...
Agents of the Special Action Forces (FAES) and other police and military units have killed and tortured with impunity in low-income communities, including during security raids called “Operations To Liberate the People.” Between 2016 and 2019, security forces alleged “resistance to authority” in more than 19,000 killings. Evidence showed many were ...
Armed groups—including the National Liberation Army (ELN), Patriotic Forces of National Liberation (FPLN), and groups that emerged from the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC)—operate mostly in border states, establishing and brutally enforcing curfews and regulations governing everyday activities. On January 1, 2022, clashes broke out be...
The judiciary stopped functioning as an independent branch of government in 2004. There has been no meaningful justice for crimes committed with knowledge or acquiescence of high-level authorities. Judicial authorities have been complicit in abuses, the FFM reported in 2021, including by issuing retrospective warrants for illegal arrests, ordering ...
Authorities reportedly failed to consult residents before creating a special mining zone in 2016, which encompasses 14 Indigenous territories. Mining is one of the main drivers of deforestation and water pollution, contributing to diseases including malaria. SOS Orinoco and the media outlet Correo del Caroní reported that people from Indigenous com...
In May the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities concluded there is no law or mechanism to combat and punish discrimination against people with disabilities and a non-inclusive education model. There is a need to ensure accessibility, access to justice, and remove restrictions on legal capacity.
Venezuela has no comprehensive civil legislation protecting people from discrimination on the grounds of sexual orientation and gender identity, apart from specific provisions in the Labor Code and the housing law. There are no legal protections for same-sex couples. The Military Code of Justice punishes consensual same-sex conduct by service perso...
Abortion is criminalized in Venezuela except when the life of the pregnant woman is at risk. According to a study by HumVenezuela, an independent platform by civil society organizations monitoring the humanitarian emergency, sexual and reproductive health services for women suffer from a loss of capacity. By March, there was a 61.7 percent shortage...
In February, the European Union mission that monitored 2021 elections issued a final report describing serious obstacles to voting and running for office, including arbitrary disqualification of government opponents seeking to run, partisan use of state resources, unequal access to media and social media, blocking of websites, and lack of judicial ...
The 2022-2023 UN Humanitarian Response Plan for Venezuela estimates that there are 5.2 million people in need of support in areas such as health, food security and water, sanitation, and hygiene. HumVenezuela said in March that most Venezuelans face difficulties in accessing food, with 10.9 million undernourished or chronically hungry. Some 4.3 mil...
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Mar 25, 2024 · March 25, 2024. The annual Country Reports on Human Rights Practices – the Human Rights Report – cover internationally recognized individual, civil, political, and worker rights, as set forth in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and other international agreements.
observers to leave the country before they could present their final report. In the final report, the European Union noted significant structural deficiencies to the electoral system and provided the regime with 23 recommendations to improve electoral conditions. The Bolivarian National Guard – a branch of the military that reports to the
Venezuela’s democratic institutions have been deteriorating since 1999, but conditions have grown sharply worse in recent years due to harsher government crackdowns on the opposition and the ruling party’s use of thoroughly flawed elections to seize full control of state institutions.
Aug 23, 2023 · It highlights the current situation of vulnerable Venezuelan people, both inside and outside the country, as well as the main actions and our response in the second quarter of 2023 in Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Venezuela. Venezuela Migrant Crisis. Download Publication.
Sep 20, 2023 · The Mission, which investigated during the past year alleged human rights violations reported in the country between January 2020 to August 2023, found there are reasonable grounds to believe at least 5 arbitrary deprivations of life, 14 short-term enforced disappearances and 58 arbitrary detentions were committed during that time.
