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The record of human rights in Venezuela has been criticized by human rights organizations such as Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International.Concerns include attacks against journalists, political persecution, harassment of human rights defenders, poor prison conditions, torture, extrajudicial executions by death squads, and forced disappearances.
Human Rights Watch wrote in a 1993 report that the second administration of Carlos Andrés Pérez "was marked by an increase in human rights violations, including arbitrary detentions, torture, extrajudicial executions, the violent repression of popular demonstrations and protests" and that the judicial branch largely ignored abuses by his ...
The Mission's mandate was created on 27 September 2019 by United Nations Human Rights Council Resolution 42/25 to assess human rights violations since 2014: including persecution of opposition groups, immigration, food crisis, state sexism towards Venezuelan women and girls, among others; since the beginning of the first government of Nicolás Maduro of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela. [1]
The report describes that the victims "overwhelmingly" requested that the Court continue with the investigation, [39] that the Venezuelan justice system was unwilling to genuinely investigate human rights violations, [40] and describes testimonies of arbitrary detentions, torture, rape and persecution. Venezuelan Foreign Minister Yván Gil ...
The National Assembly declared the Law against Hatred void, establishing that the law violates Articles 49, 51, 57, 58, 62, 68 and 202 of the Venezuelan Constitution; [28] Articles 6, 11, 18, 19, 20 and 21 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights; and Articles 18 and 19 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.
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The OHCHR released a statement on 8 August 2017 saying that there is "widespread and systematic use of excessive force and arbitrary detentions against demonstrators in Venezuela", that there are "patterns of other human rights violations, including violent house raids, torture and ill-treatment of those detained in connection with the protests ...
Another supporter, Rep. Joaquin Castro (D-TX), said that Venezuela should find its own solution, but that the legislation "makes it clear the United States will not turn a blind eye to human rights violations." [2] Opponents of the bill, such as Rep. Gregory Meeks (D-NY), were concerned that the measure took a step too far. Meeks said that "I ...