Venezuelan government representatives at an Inter-American Commission for Human Rights (IACHR) hearing in Washington, US, yesterday, said its claims regarding the “freedom of expression situation” in Venezuela are “biased” and “disrespectful” of Venezuela’s sovereignty.
By Correo del Orinoco International, Nov 20th 2011
Last week, the Venezuelan Public Defender’s Office launched a school for human rights education that will be run by the state-funded Juan Vives Suria Foundation in Caracas and will carry out seminars in twelve of the country’s 23 states.
President Hugo Chavez said on Monday that the Venezuelan state can’t “permit that any Venezuelan is abused, be they accused of anything, in any part of the world” in reference to the imprisonment, torture, and trial of Ilich Ramirez (also referred to by Western media as Carlos the Jackal) in France.
This past Tuesday, the Venezuelan National Assembly (AN) passed the Law against Forgetting, which mandates the investigation and remembering of politically-motivated state repression during the period of the Fourth Republic (1958-1998).
Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez qualified Venezuela’s review at the United Nation’s (UN) Human Rights Council as “a victory for the truth” this Sunday, after a team of delegates presented the government’s national report on human rights to the UN council.
By Tamara Pearson - Venezuelanalysis.com, Aug 31st 2011
Reports written by organisations like Crisis Group and Human Rights Watch are not aimed at helping the Venezuelan people, but rather are part of the US’s attempt to intervene in and disrupt the Bolivarian revolution.
By Filmmaker, Edward Ellis, interviewed by Joe Emersberger , Aug 22nd 2011
Joe Emersberger interviews Edward Ellis, director of "Tierras Libres," a documentary on the struggle for land reform in Venezuela. In this interview, Ellis discusses the murders of over 250 peasant activists and the Venezuelan government's response to these human rights abuses.
Under the Chavez administration, human rights have been substantially increased and expanded in order to guarantee the population not just civil and political rights, but also economic, social and cultural rights.
Ten member of the Caracas-based Chacao police force were suspended on Wednesday after an investigation by Venezuela’s Ministry of the Interior and Justice linked the officers to a 2010 incident of police brutality.
