Venezuela
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Las próximas elecciones son una oportunidad importante para Venezuela, pero la falta de garantías aumenta las preocupaciones
Tags Share Las elecciones presidenciales de 2024 y las elecciones regionales, locales y legislativas de 2025, presentan una oportunidad crucial para la reinstitucionalización de la democracia y del Estado de Derecho en Venezuela, así como para la normalización de sus relaciones con la comunidad internacional. La crisis actual alcanzó dimensiones críticas frente a la carencia…
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Upcoming Elections Provide an Important Opportunity for Venezuela but the Lack of Guarantees Deepens Concerns
Tags Share The 2024 presidential elections and 2025 regional, local and legislative elections present a crucial opportunity for the reinstitutionalization of Venezuela’s democracy and rule of law and for the normalization of its relations with the international community. The current crisis reached critical dimensions after the 2018 presidential election lacked legitimacy in the eyes of…
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Building the Foundation: Accurately Understanding the Landscape of Injustice in Venezuela as the Investigation Resumes
Tags Share Leer en español. On June 27, following a deferral request filed by the Venezuelan government under Article 18(2) of the Rome Statute that resulted in over a year-long suspension, Pre-Trial Chamber I (“The Chamber”) of the International Criminal Court (“ICC”) granted authorization for the Office of the Prosecutor to resume its investigation into…
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Construyendo los cimientos: entendiendo el panorama de la injusticia en Venezuela a medida que se reanuda la investigación ante la Corte Penal Internacional
Tags Share El 27 de junio, después de una solicitud de suspensión presentada por el gobierno de Venezuela en virtud del artículo 18(2) del Estatuto de Roma que resultó en un aplazamiento de más de un año, la Sala de Cuestiones Preliminares I (“La Sala”) de la Corte Penal Internacional (“CPI”) autorizó a la Fiscalía…
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In Venezuela, legislation seeks to criminalize civil society in the country
Tags Share In the last five years, the Venezuelan regime has threatened civil society on at least 14 separate occasions with the enactment of a law furthering the restrictions to non-governmental organizations (NGOs). Jan. 18, the Vice-President of Venezuela’s ruling party, and member of the National Assembly, Diosdado Cabello, announced once again the introduction of…
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Organizaciones internacionales denuncian proyecto de ley que busca criminalizar y obstaculizar el trabajo de las organizaciones de la sociedad civil en Venezuela
Tags Share [Ginebra y Washington D.C. enero 26 de 2023]. Las organizaciones abajo firmantes expresamos nuestra profunda preocupación por la aprobación en primera vuelta de un proyecto de ley que busca criminalizar y obstaculizar aún más el trabajo de las organizaciones de la sociedad civil en Venezuela: la Ley de Fiscalización, Regularización, Actuación y Financiamiento…
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International organizations express concern over bill that seeks to criminalize and hinder the work of civil society organizations in Venezuela
Tags Share [Geneva and Washington D.C. 26 January, 2023]. The undersigned organizations express our deep concern over the approval in the first round of a bill that seeks to criminalize and further hinder the work of civil society organizations in Venezuela: Law of Supervision, Regularization, Performance and Financing of Non-Governmental and Related Organizations (Ley de…
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Workshop with Foro Penal on the Istanbul Protocol
Tags Share For several years RFK Human Rights has been working on the documentation and investigation of the use of torture and enforced disappearance in Venezuela as a tool of political repression. Additionally, it has worked closely with local partners representing cases of serious human rights violations and advocating on behalf of victims. On September…
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Taller con Foro Penal sobre el Protocolo de Estambul
Tags Share Por varios años RFK Human Rights ha venido trabajando en la documentación e investigación del uso de la tortura y la desaparición forzada en Venezuela como herramienta de la persecución política. Adicionalmente, también ha trabajado con aliados en el terreno en la representación e incidencia en casos de graves violaciones a los derechos…
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RFKHR’s Roby, Foro Penal President Romero take on enforced disappearances in Venezuela during live event
Tags Share Venezuela is a country that faces ongoing political repression, restrictions on civic space, widespread human rights violations, and the region’s most significant ongoing humanitarian crisis, which has caused over six million Venezuelans to flee abroad by June 2022, according to the United Nations. That’s why Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights has partnered with…
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‘This country’: A Venezuelan’s reflection on her country’s challenges and RFKHR’s work to guarantee freedom of expression
Tags Share “This country,” the adults used to say when I was a kid growing up in Venezuela, leaving a blank space mid-sentence, hovering in the air. “This country needs!”, or “this country will eat us!” they would say, while slowly swinging their heads from side to side as if to accentuate their disbelief in…
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New Report Shows Venezuela Uses Criminal Justice System to Repress Critical Voices
Tags Share Washington, D.C., June 21, 2022 – Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights and Foro Penal have published a new report illustrating how the Venezuelan government systematically uses the criminal justice system to persecute critical voices, human rights defenders and perceived political opponents. The report, available in both English and Spanish, analyzes more than 480…
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