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The 2024 Venezuelan political crisis refers to the ongoing crisis in Venezuela that continued after the 28 July 2024 presidential election results were announced. [1] [2] [3] The 2024 election was held to choose a president for a six-year term beginning on 10 January 2025.
Reports. On 17 September 2020 the International Mission published a report describing extrajudicial killings, enforced disappearances, arbitrary detentions, torture and cruel treatment committed in Venezuela since 2014. On 5 October, the UN Human Rights Council approved a resolution extending the Mission's mandate for two more years. [6]
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. A joint military-police unit claimed the fishermen (who had no police records and were not known to either Venezuelan or Colombian military intelligence) were a group of guerillas who attacked them with guns and grenades, with an ...
CARACAS (Reuters) -Venezuela's ruling party-controlled National Assembly on Thursday unanimously passed a bill allowing the government to more tightly regulate non-governmental organizations (NGOs ...
THE HAGUE (Reuters) -Appeals judges at the International Criminal Court (ICC) on Friday rejected Venezuela's appeal against a decision to resume an investigation into alleged human rights abuses ...
The UN human rights office, which has operated in Venezuela since 2019 and has 13 staff in the country, must rectify its "colonialist, abusive and violating attitude," the government's statement ...
In 2008, the government expelled the US-based Human Rights Watch, [25] which was criticizing the government's Human rights record. Hugo Chávez , the central figure of the Venezuelan political landscape since his election to the presidency in 1998 as a political outsider, died in office in early 2013 after a long struggle with cancer.
Human rights organizations in Venezuela on Wednesday demanded the release of a prominent attorney and activist whose detention last week has heightened concerns over the government's use of ...