Civil society organizations and their representatives that collaborated with OHCHR on the HCHR report
Cases- Location of case in SG report
- 2020-138-001
- Relevant SG report
- Year of the report
- 2020
- From Country
- Country Geolocation
Latitude: 6.42375
Longitude: -66.58973
- Country Geolocation (linked Cases)
- Venezuela
- From Region
- UN body that raised the case prior to the SG report
- Assistant Secretary-General
- UN (Dep.) High Commissioner on Human Rights
- Dates of prior UN action
- July 2019; 9 September 2019; December 2019
- Type of record
- Unnamed individual/group/organization
- Was the victim a foreign national?
- No
- Was the victim a minor?
- No
- Was the victim a civil servant or member of the security forces or of the judiciary?
- No
- Engagement with UN body
- HC-mandated reports
- OHCHR: OHCHR - General
- Dates of engagement
- Unclear
- Type of attempted engagement
- Meeting with UN officials during country visit / with locally present UN officials
- Submission of information to UN
- Dates of mentioned reprisals
- Unclear
- Reprisal information
members of the political opposition, human rights activists and journalists, among others, are frequently labelled as “traitors” and “destabilizing agents” including by high-level authorities, and stated that this rhetoric is widely disseminated through pro-government media such as the weekly television programme “Con el Mazo Dando” (see Annex II) presented by the President of the National Constituent Assembly
- Types of reprisals suffered
- Defamation / Defamation campaign
- Threats/Intimidations (incl. "fear of reprisal")
- Alleged/likely perpetrators
- State actors
- Was the reprisal based on new legislation?
- No
- Does the report make general comment about country’s environment for engagement with UN?
- Yes
- Is the country cited for a "pattern of reprisal" in the context of this case?
- Yes
- Is a pattern of reprisals mentioned otherwise in the context of this case?
- No
- Does the report cite "self-censorship" as an issue in the context of this case?
- No
- How many times has the case been followed up in subsequent SG reports?
- 0
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