Human Rights
Tuesday, May 6, 2014 - 10:50
The Honorable Roberta S. Jacobson: "We continue to be preoccupied by the situation in Venezuela, where legitimate political, economic, and social grievances and a lack of adequate democratic space and respect for human rights have brought protests and, unfortunately, violence."
Tuesday, May 6, 2014 - 10:46
The widespread nature of these abuses caused HRW to conclude that they formed “part of a systematic practice by the Venezuelan security forces”.
Tuesday, May 6, 2014 - 10:41
To seek international sanctions against the Government of Venezuela with respect to foreign persons responsible for or complicit in ordering, controlling, or otherwise directing, the commission of serious human rights abuses against citizens of Venezuela, and for other purposes.
Tuesday, May 6, 2014 - 09:37
Scores of girls and young women kidnapped from a school in Nigeria are being forced to marry their Islamic extremist abductors, a civic organization reported Wednesday.
Tuesday, May 6, 2014 - 09:31
Secretary of State Kerry embarks today on a trip to Ethiopia, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Angola. The trip offers a key opportunity to refocus U.S. leadership on the deteriorating respect for human rights by the ruling governments in Addis Ababa and Luanda and on the need for more leadership on good governance by the government of President Kabila in Kinshasa.
Tuesday, May 6, 2014 - 06:52
“This leads to the situation when police officers use tortures to force out confessions in order to demonstrate good clearance results,” Mr. Sadygaliyev explained.
Tuesday, May 6, 2014 - 06:44
Fifty officials from the Judicial Police, the Department for Combating Illegal Immigration and the Military Police are taking part in the training, which is being run by international experts on the training of personnel on prison management and UN minimum rules for the treatment of detainees.
Tuesday, May 6, 2014 - 06:17
This 103-page report documents 45 cases from Caracas and three states, involving more than 150 victims, in which security forces have abused the rights of protesters and other people in the vicinity of demonstrations.