UN member states should address Venezuela’s deepening human rights and humanitarian crisis during the 36th Session of the UN Human Rights Council in September 2017, 116 Venezuelan, Latin ...

Since President Maduro came to power in 2013, there has been an alarming rise in the intensity of abuses and the severity of the rights crackdown in Venezuela. Political and civil society ...

Amnesty International has warned that forced disappearances in Venezuela have escalated following the presidential elections ...

Human rights activists reported Friday that they had records of 79 teenagers who were arrested after protests erupted Monday in reaction to the results of the July 28 presidential election.

A new report Tuesday says Venezuela’s government has ramped up efforts to repress peaceful protests in the wake of the disputed election, creating a human rights crisis. File Photo by Ronald ...

Venezuela has lost its seat on the United Nations Council of Human Rights — a development hailed on Tuesday by activists and human rights defenders in Venezuela as cause for celebration.

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 UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet cites evidence that at least 20 people were killed by security forces or pro-government armed groups, and that well over 350 people were ...

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's government is ramping up efforts to repress peaceful protests in the wake of President Nicolás Maduro's disputed election win, according to a new report Tuesday that calls it a human ...