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The U.N. team concluded that the use of torture in Venezuela is systematic. Of 122 individuals arrested by the DGCIM, the U.N. team found that 77 were subjected to torture, sexual violence or ...
The United Nations (U.N.) has accused Nicolás Maduro's Venezuelan government of committing "gross human rights violations" in the wake of July's disputed presidential election.
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.
A U.N.-backed panel investigating human rights violations in Venezuela said Wednesday the South American country’s government has intensified efforts to curtail democratic freedoms with threats ...
The U.N. Human Rights Council announced the opening of the probe in a letter to several Latin American jurists who in October petitioned the U.N. agency to take action in the face of what is said was widespread evidence of electoral fraud that violates the political rights of millions of Venezuelans.
"The reactivation of the most violent mechanisms of the State's repressive apparatus led to serious human rights violations and crimes, in what constituted one of the country's most acute crises ...
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 ...