CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuela's government "categorically" rejected a United Nations human rights report on Friday criticizing repression of political opponents and children in the wake of contested elections, saying it was a sign of coercion against the state. A U.N. fact-finding mission on...
The Venezuela diplomatic mission in Geneva said it does not recognize the mandate of the fact-finding mission and declined to comment on the report to The Associated Press, though it was likely to address the report when it comes up for presentation to the council ...
The third report from the fact-finding mission on Venezuela, commissioned by the U.N.’s Human Rights Council, was released Tuesday and adds new detail on a string of rights violations — including possible crimes against humanity — under Maduro’s government that the experts first documented ...
It is now a public secret that the US uses civil society and rogue citizens like Chin'ono in various countries to defend its evil and cruel policies such as the sanctions against unfairly targeted countries like Cuba, Venezuela, Iran and Zimbabwe. Chin'ono further alleged that Ms Douhan was ...
The United Nations is a thoroughly corrupted organisation probably beyond repair. For decades it has not been able to keep it's own peacekeeping forces in check and focused on their mission.[10]At headquarters cronyism and greed govern actions.[11][12]TheSecurity Councildebates have been called...
In its latest report, the three-member international fact-finding mission authorized by the U.N. Human Rights Council said the government is increasingly repressing specific members of civil society, including politicians, labor leaders, journalists, human rights defenders an...
Last year, Russia was defeated in its bid to regain a seat on the Human Rights Council after it was suspended in 2022 following its invasion of Ukraine. In the 2022 election, Venezuela, South Korea and Afghanistan lost contested races, but countries including Vietnam and Sudan,...
The Trump administration is more than tripling U.S. support for pro-democracy work in Venezuela and, for the first time, directly funding Guaido as he attempts to force Maduro to give up power to the opposition. So far, Guaido, even with the international support and widespread public disaffe...
DeVos praised the “incredible gains” for American women since the Beijing conference and denounced “evil regimes” elsewhere that deny women’s rights and freedoms, singling out Venezuela, Cuba, Iran and “the worst violator of all,” China. ...
fact-finding mission told a news briefing. "After that these people were surveilled, information was gathered, their communications were intercepted and finally they would be detained without judicial order, just because there was such an order by the President," Cox said. "So we ...