In 2018, Venezuelans represented the second largest number of international displacements, with 341,800 new asylum applications, which means that one in five asylum seekers in the world comes from Venezuela. This has been confirmed by the United Nations High Commissioner […]
Highlights • In Táchira state, 9,050 children under 5 and pregnant and lactating women were screened for malnutrition. 7,469 received micronutrients supplementation to prevent micronutrient deficiencies. • The Immunization Campaign of the Americas was carried out from 13 May to […]
MULTIMEDIA TEXTS AND MATERIALS: RAFAEL HERNÁNDEZ AND RUBÉN SEVILLA Rosa Umaña, a Colombian woman who was displaced by the violence in her own country, opens the doors of her home in Cúcuta to Venezuelans who have been forced out by […]
United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet, arrived on Wednesday 19 July to Venezuela for a 3-day visit. On Thursday afternoon, the High Commissioner, human rights organizations and multiple victim groups met. In this space of one hour, […]
Intervention on behalf of the 49th Civil Society Forum (General Assembly-Organization of American States) The Coalition of Human Rights Organizations in the Americas joins together more than 300 organizations that both promote and defend human rights. For the past 25 […]
United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet, arrived on Wednesday 19 July to Venezuela for a 3-day visit. On Thursday afternoon, the High Commissioner, human rights organizations and multiple victim groups met. In this space of one hour, […]
Point-blank range. This was the rubber pellet shot made by a security force’s official in Táriba, Táchira state, against 16-year-old Rufo Antonio Chacón Parada, a senior student at Luis López Méndez High School, during a protest over the lack of […]
Accountability Needed for Egregious Crimes, Humanitarian Emergency The United Nations Human Rights Council should establish a commission of inquiry during its September 2019 session to investigate serious human rights violations in Venezuela, Human Rights Watch said today in a joint […]
“The thirst for gold will leave us without water” read a banner outside the Supreme Tribunal of Justice (TSJ). On the morning of Monday June 3rd, the NGO En Defensa de la Constitución (In Defence of the Constitution) protested outside […]
United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet, arrived on Wednesday 19 July to Venezuela for a 3-day visit. On Thursday afternoon, the High Commissioner, human rights organizations and multiple victim groups met. In this space of one hour, […]
