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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 ...
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.
Venezuela’s government on Thursday ordered the local United Nations office on human rights to suspend operations and gave its staff 72 hours to leave, accusing it of assisting coup plotters and ...
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 U.N. has documented killings, forced disappearances, and torture.
Maduro will manage to ride out the latest threat to his 11-year rule" and "some compare [the rights violations] to those committed under the Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet". [201] To stop opposition within the military and his own government, Maduro divided his security personnel into fragmented units.
The Massacre of El Amparo was a massacre of 14 fishermen that took place near the village of El Amparo, in Venezuela's western state of Apure, on 29 October 1988. [16] [17] A joint military-police unit claimed the fishermen (who had no police records and were not known to either Venezuelan or Colombian military intelligence) [18] were a group of guerillas who attacked them with guns and ...