An International Fact-Finding Mission looked into human rights violations in Venezuela and has presented its fourth report to the United Nations Human Rights Council. Although since 2020, human rights abuses and violations seem to have been reduced, the Mission, presided over by Marta Valiñas, emphasized that these are still going on, just with more selective
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Venezuela: UN Fact-Finding Mission Underscores Grave and Persistent Rights Abuses
The mission’s rigorous documentation clearly demonstrates sustained and severe human rights abuses in Venezuela, as well as impunity for the perpetrators.
In response to the UN Fact Finding Mission’s (FFM) oral update on the human rights situation in Venezuela before the UN Human Rights Council, Freedom House issued the following statement:
“Freedom House commends the FFM’s oral update to its report published in September 2020, which reaffirms that the human rights violations occurring in Venezuela could amount to crimes against humanity. The FFM’s rigorous documentation counters the regime’s false narrative of cooperation with the United Nations, clearly demonstrates sustained and severe human rights abuses, and highlights the scarcity of official investigations into those abuses or consequences for perpetrators,” said Gerardo Berthin, director for Latin America and Caribbean programs