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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.
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 ...
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 ...
U.S. president Barack Obama signed the Venezuela Defense of Human Rights and Civil Society Act of 2014, imposing sanctions on Venezuelan individuals held responsible by the U.S. for human rights violations during the 2014 Venezuelan protests. [13] [14] [7] The Act was extended in 2016 through 31 December 2019. [15]
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]
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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.