The mines of the Guayana region in southern Venezuela have become the source of an illusion of wealth for the most vulnerable population that turns to them in search of fortune, ending up trapped in a vicious circle of slavery-like […]
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 […]
A report on extractivism in Venezuela presented by the environmental organization SOS Orinoco revealed that 53 people died in 18 mining accidents in the country in 2023. According to the study, 2023 became the year with the highest number of […]
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 […]
On September 27, Venezuelan NGOs Clima 21 and Mulier Venezuela presented a report on the effects of environmental degradation on the human rights of Venezuelan women. Estefanía Mendoza, co-founder and coordinator at Mulier Venezuela, discussed the most relevant findings of […]
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 […]
Indigenous communities denounce the increasing presence of illegal mining in the Yapacana National Park, which pollutes the Orinoco River with mercury, killing fish and poisoning the water they drink The indigenous communities located in the vicinity of the Yapacana National […]
The Commission for Human Rights and Citizenship (Codehciu) compiled the stories of three families that have in common the disappearance of a loved one. A father, a mother and a wife who share the same feeling of uncertainty —How do […]
