From January to June 2021, the Commission for Human Rights of the State of Zulia (Codhez) documented several acts of violence involving security officials of the Venezuelan State that led to the presumably unlawful death of 158. In the same […]
The Comission of Human Rights in the State of Zulia (Codhez) released the June 2020 bulletin that documents the most important facts regarding the situation of the right to health and access to health care services in Zulia. In June […]
El domingo al mediodía explotó una granada a unos 100 metros de mi casa, la distancia de campo de fútbol aproximadamente. Es la segunda en una semana y la tercera este año, refiriéndome únicamente a aquellas que explotaron a una […]
Patients infected with COVID-19 face countless problems at the University Hospital in Maracaibo. Resident physicians and nurses have taken on the responsibility of keeping the facilities clean. Patients have had to defecate in disposable trays and throw them out the […]
Maracaibo.- The precarity of living conditions in Zulia, the hyperinflationary phenomenon and the increase in police violence are some of the situations which marked the human rights situation in the state of Zulia. The Human Rights Commission of the State […]
On the first days of March a pick-up truck with speakers and an escort of cops in bikes roamed around the streets. Out of the speakers at full volume came a voice with the wrong tone for the serious situation […]
Out of all the things I have done this year, I am rejoicing in a special way last week’s closing. Being at the Human Rights Fair at the Teatro Bellas Artes de Maracaibo (Fine arts theatre of Maracaibo) was revitalizing. […]
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 […]
One in every two households in Maracaibo reported to have at least one family member outside of Venezuela, almost all of whom send remittances to help purchase food, according to a survey conducted by the Commission for Human Rights of […]
74.5% of households in the municipality of Maracaibo reported that, in the last three months, both children and adults felt hunger but did not eat. This was one of the most notable findings of the Survey on Food Security in the city of Maracaibo conducted by the Commission for Human Rights of the State of Zulia (Codhez), which was based on the Latin American and Caribbean Food Security Scale (ELCSA)
