Arbitrary detentions, forced disappearances, torture and ill-treatment -- particularly during recent elections -- are among ...

Civil and political freedoms in Venezuela have sharply deteriorated over the past year, according to the United Nations’ top human rights official, who cited a wave of arbitrary arrests, ...

The U.N. Human Rights Council had also voted to set up an independent fact-finding mission to look into allegations of killings, disappearances, arbitrary detention and torture in Venezuela.

Venezuela’s ruling party-controlled National Assembly has declared Volker Türk, the United Nations high commissioner for ...

Yván Gil, Venezuela’s foreign minister, speaking at the United Nations General Assembly in September. Mr. Gil ordered a U.N. human rights agency to leave Venezuela on Thursday.

The closure of the U.N. human rights office now could make it "much harder" for the United States to renew the oil-and-gas licenses in April, Geoff Ramsey, a senior fellow at the Atlantic Council ...

Venezuela rejects U.N. report detailing torture and human rights abuses Venezuela’s National Intelligence Service headquarters, known as El Helicoide, stands in front of the La Cota 905 ...

Since 2019, the U.N. office in Venezuela has monitored the human rights situation in the country and provided support to civil society. Following San Miguel’s arrest, the U.N. High Commissioner ...