93 Venezuelan and regional organizations sign open letter to President Gustavo Petro
Carolina Cabral/Getty Images (Caracas, February 16, 2022). First of all, please receive our best...
Read MoreFeb 21, 2023 | Joint Statement
Carolina Cabral/Getty Images (Caracas, February 16, 2022). First of all, please receive our best...
Read MoreJan 26, 2023 | Joint Statement
(AP Photo/Matias Delacroix) [Geneva and Washington D.C. 26 January, 2023]. The undersigned...
Read MoreJan 24, 2023 | Joint Statement
(AP Photo/Matias Delacroix) A little more than a year after the regional and municipal elections...
Read MoreDec 22, 2022 | Joint Statement
(AP Photo/Fernando Llano) On November 26, formal negotiations resumed between representatives of...
Read MoreNov 24, 2022 | WOLA Statement
On November 26, representatives of the government of Nicolás Maduro and the opposition Unitary...
Read MoreMay 18, 2022 | Joint Statement, Statements
Image: A crowd carrying flags and blowing whistles gathers in an anti-government demonstration....
Read MoreApr 27, 2022 | Joint Statement, Statements
On April 27, a group of 19 Venezuelan and international organizations including WOLA issued a letter to President of Argentina Alberto Fernández to express concern over the situation of human rights defender Javier Tarazona, who has been arbitrarily detained for several months.
Read MoreApr 13, 2022 | Joint Statement, Statements
The undersigned human rights organizations welcome the recent announcement by the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, Karim A.A. Khan, on the establishment of a decentralized office of the ICC Prosecutor’s Office in Caracas, and the declaration that the Office will work jointly with important international allies.
Read MoreApr 12, 2022 | Statements
On April 5, 2022, a meeting took place between members of the Venezuelan government and members of various civil society organizations, with the objective of presenting an agenda of citizens’ demands that have been comprised through social dialogue, conversations between organizations and citizens, and consultations with leadership from across the political spectrum.
Read MoreJan 26, 2022 | Joint Statement, Statements
We, a group of Venezuelan social and human rights organizations, reject the official decisions regarding the request to activate the constitutional right to hold a recall referendum of elected officials. This right is established in Article 72 of the Constitution, and its violation confirms the absence of democracy in the country and the inability for the population to exercise political rights without threat of reprisal.
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