Venezuela en Cifras (Venezuela by the numbers) is an initiative of the Venezuelan Organization Un Mundo Sin Mordaza aimed at reporting in a clear, brief, and simple way how the human rights of Venezuelans were affected in 2021 in the […]
Photo: Relatives of patients that are treated at the University Hospital wait in front of the building in Barquisimeto, Venezuela on April 24, 2019. © 2020 YURI CORTEZ/AFP via Getty Images Water Shortages in Hospitals Heighten Risk in Country, Region […]
Colombia’s decision to close the border with Venezuela as one of the measures to curb the spreading of the coronavirus led to chaos at the border. Venezuelans in desperate need for healthcare that is virtually unavailable in the neighboring country […]
Reporting in a crisis often means covering death tolls, human suffering and instances of government failure. But just as important is providing accurate, trusted information that people need to cope and survive. As the COVID-19 outbreak continues, the WHO’s Director-General […]
The story of three Venezuelan mothers that crossed into Colombia so that their sick and recently-born children could receive medical attention reflects the serious public health crisis that Venezuela is currently facing. Freidermar On the 16th of November 2017, Freidermar […]
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, […]
Since 2016, a lethal threat has been unleashed in Venezuela for all for all the guidelines upheld by the Convention on Biological Diversity, when the Venezuelan State announced, by decree, the creation of the Orinoco Mining Arc, without giving priority […]
Venezuela has a population of 31.8 million inhabitants and a territory divided into 24 states. Since 2015, the country is affected by an unprecedented Complex Humanitarian Emergency. Due to its multiple factors and extensive destructuring at the institutional, legal, political, […]
Convite is an organization devoted to the promotion of social rights for all people. Their project, Monitoring the Right to Health in Venezuela, collects information in a timely and relevant matter to verify the current situation of the right to […]
In the Venezuelan state of Zulia, electrical service was first interrupted in many neighborhoods on Thursday, March 7th at 1:00 pm. By 5:00 pm the entire region was without power, mirroring the condition of the rest of the country. More […]
