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  2. Violence against women in Venezuela - Wikipedia

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    In 2007, the country enacted Ley Organica Sobre el Derecho de las Mujeres a una Vida Libre de Violencia (Organic Law on the Right of Women to a Life Free of Violence). [18] The Organization of American States hosts an in-house agency, MESECVI, "for the promotion and protection of women's rights and gender equality". Its current technical ...

  3. Women in Venezuela - Wikipedia

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    In 2007, the country enacted Ley Organica Sobre el Derecho de las Mujeres a una Vida Libre de Violencia (Organic Law on the Right of Women to a Life Free of Violence). [ 16 ] During the crisis in Venezuela under the government of Nicolás Maduro , women in Venezuela became more vulnerable to sexual violence as a result of weak institutions and ...

  4. List of incidents of xenophobia during the Venezuelan refugee ...

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    In January 2019, a Venezuelan was killed after fights between Venezuelans and Peruvians in the district of Chao (La Libertad). [74] In the same month there were clashes between Venezuelans protesting in front of their country's embassy in Lima and Peruvian citizens who demanded that their government close the borders.

  5. Movimiento Estudiantil (Venezuela) - Wikipedia

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    Movimiento Estudiantil (English: The Student Movement) is a Venezuelan student movement started in 2007, made up of students who organized in opposition to the government of President Hugo Chávez. According to several analysts, it had a decisive effect on the rejection of the 2007 Venezuelan constitutional referendum .

  6. Timeline of protests in Venezuela in 2016 - Wikipedia

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    By September, Venezuela saw some of its largest protests in the country's history with over one million demonstrating on 1 September 2016 and 26 October 2016. Into November, protests ceased due to the Vatican-backed dialogue between the opposition and the Bolivarian government, though the talks began to fall apart by the end of December.

  7. List of massacres in Venezuela - Wikipedia

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    Name Date Location Deaths Notes Night of the Machetes: 1913 Amazonas state 65-400 [1] [2]: El Corozo massacre [3] [4]: 1942, 18 February El Corozo village, Trujillo state 12 50-year-old farmer Gregorio Cáceres kills eleven people and seriously injured four others with an ax and a knife in El Corozo, a village in Trujillo, in addition to killing several animals and then escaping in the jungle ...

  8. Crime in Venezuela - Wikipedia

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    In 2008, the National Assembly passed the Law Against Kidnapping and Extortion (Ley contra el Secuestro y la Extorsión), a law that imposes penalties of up to 30 years in prison to address a kidnapping situation that was not covered by a specific law. Despite the introduction of the new law, the majority of cases are not resolved and only ...

  9. Timeline of protests in Venezuela in 2015 - Wikipedia

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    María Corina Machado and Lilian Tintori supporting Mrs. Mitzy Capriles de Ledezma, wife of the Metropolitan Mayor of Caracas at a gathering on 20 February. 3 February – Students of the University of Los Andes called for a march to the Public Ministry in Mérida on 12 February, commemorating the deaths of those killed that day one year ...