Venezuela does not meet the criteria to occupy a chair in the Human Rights Council
Venezuela is confronting a multidimensional crisis, resulting in massive violations of human rights. At least Since 2015, a complex humanitarian emergency has affected the lives of millions of Venezuelans, forcing them to flee the country. To date 4.3 million Venezuelans have left the country in the last four years, making it the second largest refugee […]
Mujeres al Límite 2019, the flagship report on the rights of Venezuelan women is now available in English
The report highlights the need for urgent implementation of plans and policies that guarantee the dignified life of women and girls in Venezuela Caracas, September 18th 2019. – The human rights crisis in Venezuela has increased the gender gap in an alarming manner, placing women and girls in a grave situation of vulnerability. The Equivalencias […]
Venezuela: a country on the verge of collapse
Millions have already fled Venezuela in a humanitarian crisis that’s being compared with Syria. Global Insight assesses the impact of the beleaguered economy, the political tensions and the challenges that lie ahead. For Venezuelans, it’s hard to imagine how things could get much worse. The economy’s in tatters, with inflation reaching 80,000 per cent in […]
Crisis in Venezuela: ‘Right Now We’re Trying to Save Lives’
A human rights activist says the humanitarian crisis can only be resolved with steady pressure from a broad international coalition. Beatriz “Bibi” Borges is the director of the Center for Justice and Peace (CEPAZ), a Caracas-based human rights organization that was founded in response to mounting human rights abuses by the Chávez-Maduro regime. In a […]
Venezuela: Crisis demands a combined humanitarian and human rights response
Venezuela has been immersed in a political crisis for some time now. In May 2018, while hundreds of thousands of Venezuelan citizens were leaving the country to flee hunger and political persecution, President Nicolás Maduro was re-elected in an election questioned by many in civil society and the international community as dubious. CIVICUS speaks about […]
123 organizations and 509 Venezuelan academics and social activists are grateful for WOLA’s work for democracy and human rights in their country
(Caracas, March 15, 2019) We – a group of social, labor, and popular activists, academics, and members of Venezuelan civil society and human rights organizations – with ample experience organizing and doing social work in our country, want to publicly recognize and support the work that the Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA) have conducted […]
NGO demand a coherent and attach to human rights action from the UN in the response of the humanitarian emergency in Venezuela
In light of the recent participation of representatives of the United Nations (UN) present in Venezuela in acts related to the political situation, on January 10 and 12, 2019, and aiming at the generation of conditions conducive to the urgent and necessary access to plans and mechanisms of international humanitarian assistance and cooperation in the […]
