UN Member-States examined Venezuela’s human rights situation during the 3rd Cycle of the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) on January 25th, 2022. The UPR is a…
The year 2021 began with the news that the Assembly of States Parties to the Rome Statute had elected British lawyer Karim Khan as the…
CIVICUS speaks with Feliciano Reyna, founder and president of Acción Solidaria, a Venezuelan civil society organisation (CSO) established in 1995 with the mission to contribute…
Elisabeth Pramendorfer, Senior Human Rights Officer at the Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect, writes on Human Rights Council mandated investigative mechanisms. The establishment…
Venezuela is currently suffering one of the worst humanitarian crises in the world. The country has experienced 7 years of economic contraction, hyperinflation, political polarization…
Geraldine Byrne Nason, Ireland’s permanent representative to the United Nations, said her country hopes to see “a peacefully negotiated and democratic solution” to the Venezuelan…
Violence against women and gender-based violence continue to be a serious issue in Venezuela. According to the data provided by the monitoring of femicides carried…
The members of the Civic Forum delegation presented a balance of the activities and meetings held during the tour in Washington, D.C., in an assembly…
During the first semester of the year 2021, from the Center for Justice and Peace (Cepaz) we have registered at least 434 acts of persecution…
On July 6, an open dialogue between civil society was held with Ambassador Nicolas de Rivière, Permanent Representative of France to the United Nations, a…
