According to the third report from the Monitor of Use of Lethal Force in Latin America and the Caribbean (MFL), published on April 16, 21 to 25.3 percent of all violent deaths in Venezuela between 2020 and 2022 happened at […]
A group of researchers and civil society organizations recently announced the launching of the website of the Monitor of the Use of Lethal Force in Venezuela (MUFLVEN), the result of an interdisciplinary effort to provide detailed information, research and analysis […]
In the framework of so-called security operations, the Venezuelan government has carried out approximately seven Operaciones Trueno (Thunder Operations) with the participation of different armed agencies of the State, both civil and military, and the aim, according to the authorities, of dismantling […]
The Special Action Forces (FAES) of the Bolivarian National Police (PNB) became a machine of death. Its victims mainly young people from popular sectors. Its main modality is to carry out raids without a court order, arrest the allegedly criminal person and […]
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 […]
The regional coalition Observatorio para la Defensa de la Vida (The Observatory for the Defense of Life, ODEVIDA), an alliance between Pares-Colombia, PROVEA-Venezuela and regional organizations, presented its most recent bulletin titled “Violence against union leaders: the setbacks of the […]
On September 20, The United Nations Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela published several reports detailing the findings of its investigation into human rights violations in Venezuela. One of the documents revealed the situation of human […]
“You keep waiting for a good morning or good night message, you keep waiting for all those birthdays when you don’t know if it is one year more or one less.” This is how Estrella describes the months that followed […]
The Human Rights Commission of Zulia state (Codhez) presented its 2021 Annual Report on the general human rights situation in the region, which revealed the worsening of the already common and usual problems that affected the population in the state […]
In the face of the bloodshed that occurred in the Parima B area, the signatories to this statement, members of the Indigenous Peoples, Communities and Organizations of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, express our total and absolute solidarity with the […]
