Currently, illegal gold mining is the main threat to the rivers of the Venezuelan Amazon: all major basins are at risk from sedimentation and mercury pollution derived from gold exploitation. A report published in February by the environmental organization Clima […]
The Observatory for the Defense of Life (Odevida) registered a total of 135 cases of defenders of environmental and territorial rights in Venezuela victims of violence and repression between 2013 and 2021. Forty defenders or leaders have been murdered, 25 […]
Since 2019, the Venezuelan Guajira has been experiencing one of the harshest droughts in its history. Each day, women in the area have to walk for hours to fetch water that is often contaminated, a task that exposes them to […]
Members of the Bolivarian National Armed Forces (FANB) and alleged illegal miners clashed on September 13 in the Atabapo municipality of the southern Venezuelan state of Amazonas, where the military is conducting the mass expulsion of people engaged in the […]
In February 2016, the government of Nicolás Maduro decreed the creation of a National Strategic Development Zone, currently known as the Orinoco Mining Arc. Four years later, the Mining Arc has become a major ecological crime and natural disaster that […]
The Orinoco Mining Arc has meant the end of the self-determination of indigenous peoples in the Venezuelan Amazon, according to a statement by defenders of the Human Rights of indigenous peoples. The document was released by lawyer and indigenous rights […]
The Venezuelan NGO FundaRedes deemed extremely serious and alarming the situation of vulnerability and defenselessness affecting women and girls from indigenous communities and rural areas at the border due to the risk of falling victim to different forms of modern […]
Members of Venezuela’s indigenous peoples “cannot move freely across their territories, they are threatened and forced -especially young people- to join irregular armed groups or to participate in illegal activities as drug traffickers,” denounced Raúl Cubas, coordinator at the Venezuelan […]
The true guidelines that define the proposal to defend the Amazon, promoted by Nicolás Maduro and Gustavo Petro at COP27, will be known over the course of a year in which Venezuela is also expected to commit to expelling the […]
According to its third report presented on Monday, September 26, the United Nations Fact Finding Mission documented several attacks by State forces on indigenous groups in Venezuela. One of the most emblematic cases documented took place in the Gran Sabana […]
