The United Nations Human Rights Council meets in Geneva to present an update on the human rights situation in Venezuela.
He United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (Acnudh), People Turk, He expressed his dismay at the people who continued to be arbitrarily detained and reiterated his call for their immediate release.
He also reiterated the call for justice for the victims of human rights abuses, such as journalists and civil society, who continue to be persecuted and have their freedom of expression restricted by Nicolás Maduro’s regime.
“My team has received reports of people being attacked and killed by unknown assailants for protesting in rural areas of the country,” Türk said.
The European Union He rejected the human rights violations in the Caribbean country as well as the arbitrary arrests and threats against non-governmental organizations.
For their part, the representative of USA He expressed his government’s commitment to holding free and transparent elections in Venezuela.
He Great Britain He also expressed concern about malnutrition rates and the inability of Venezuelan civil society to access health care.
Argentina For his part, he welcomed the regime’s decision to expand the presence of the Human Rights Office team in Venezuela and urged the establishment of a permanent commission in the country. He also expressed concern that more than 7 million people in Venezuela are in need of humanitarian assistance, according to UN statistics.
In January of this year, the United Nations High Commissionermet with civil society groups and human rights activists in Venezuela and assured that his visit to the Caribbean country “It’s about solidarity, dialogue and action.“.
“I’m happy to interact with different groups of victims and civil society on my first day in #Venezuela,” the official began in a message on the social network Twitter, which included photos of the meeting.
Türk insisted at the time “All countries need and deserve a free and vibrant civil space“.
About 90 Venezuelan NGOs asked the Acnudh to create one Mechanism “participatory and transparent monitoring”. of the recommendations made by the UN office to the Venezuelan state and that they will be included in the oral updates, as well as in the reports on the country.
On the other hand, they urged the High Commissioner Support visits to the nation by other UN special rapporteurs and procedures“and not sticking to the premise of supposed neutrality under the argument of the independence of the rapporteurs, since It is part of his mandate to ensure visits by human rights reporters that according to their own statements they were violated”.
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