The victims and their relatives, society, human rights defenders and organizations need and demand the extension of the mandate of the International Independent Fact-Finding Mission on Venezuela to combat impunity and achieve truth, justice, reparation and establish guarantees for the […]
The United Nations Human Rights Council should renew the mandate of its Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on Venezuela, 125 national and international organizations working on Venezuela said today. The Mission, established in 2019 to investigate systematic human rights violations in Venezuela, has […]
In July 2017, a young protester was sexually tortured by eight agents of the Bolivarian National Police in Maracaibo. The victim’s recount was confirmed and the officers were convicted. However, not a single senior official of the Bolivarian National Police […]
The Maduro government seeks at all costs to bring the mandate of the Fact-Finding Mission on Venezuela to an end in October 2022, when a new resolution is expected to be voted upon at the UN Human Rights Council. To […]
The UN Independent International Fact-finding Mission on the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela published a new call on people, groups, organizations, and whoever is interested to present documents, information, or interviews relevant to their new mandate. The Mission’s mandate focuses on […]
In the framework of the 45th session of the United Nations Human Rights Council, the renewal of the mandate of the International Independent Fact-Finding Mission on Venezuela was approved with 22 votes in favor, extending it for a further period […]
The recent report on Venezuela carried out at the request of the UN confirms the recounts of human rights violations made by victims and civil society organizations. Regarding freedom of expression, it concluded that there is persecution in Venezuela “specifically […]
According to the recent report of the United Nations Independent Fact-Finding Mission, the current Venezuelan ministers of Defense and Interior are responsible for serious human rights violations that have occurred in the country since 2014. Both are on the list […]
The prosecutor and the Ombudsman appointed by the dictatorship recently presented the so-called “Report Against Infamy” to attack the UN Fact-Finding Mission. The 112-page propagandistic document serves to tell an untrustful recount of the situation in the country. It refers […]
Washington, September 17, 2020 The Fact-Finding Mission affirmed that the Venezuelan state apparatus used tactics and measures of targeted political repression against critics of the government, which include arbitrary detentions, short-term forced disappearances, and acts of torture and cruel, inhuman, […]
