#VenezuelaBienvenida
Citizen-led initiatives like #VenezuelaBienvenida (#VenezuelaIsWelcome in English) are reassuring, which calls on the country to get involved in the crisis on the side of human rights, to open channels of conversation, while promoting research and action to avoid the festering social rejection of Venezuelans.
By Irina Alejandra Junieles Acosta |
Constituting a black hole
The Constituent Assembly proposed by Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro will consume what remains of democracy in Venezuela. It will also make Maduro a dictator who will control all the powers of the state. The international community must vigorously oppose it.
By Rodrigo Uprimny Yepes |
News About Venezuela
The Right to Have Rights: A Debate on Nationality in Colombia
By Lucía Ramírez Bolívar, Silvia Ruiz |
Over ten human rights organizations appeared before the Constitutional Court asking to adopt the definition of domicile contained in the Civil Code, as provided in the Political Constitution and Law 43/1993
From repression to migration: The case of Rufo Chacón
By Ezequiel Monsalve |
Rufo Chacón, in the company of his mother, is preparing to travel to Spain, where he will get the surgical intervention needed to improve his condition.
Enlaza Venezuela arrives on October 2nd to the Museum of Modern Art of Bogotá
By Dejusticia |
This will be an event that will show attendees the different paths that exist to support organizations that continue to work to transform the situation in Venezuela.
Attention! Job Opportunity at Dejusticia
By Dejusticia |
Dejusticia is seeking a dynamic International Area Director who will both lead and work alongside the team to ensure the efficient functioning of the international area in its multiple tasks.
Leading Human Rights Organizations Support a Democratic, Non-Violent Solution to Venezuela’s Crisis
By Dejusticia |
International Community Must Advance a Democratic, Non-Violent Solution to Venezuela’s Crisis.
The ICC Venezuela Referral and the Tumultuous Shift in Latin American Politics
By Daniel Marín, Aaron Alfredo Acosta |
With the rise of right-wing presidents in Latin America, measures like the referral can be abused by such governments to advance their political agendas in the region, thereby delegitimizing the crucial cause of seeking justice for victims in Venezuela as a common goal.
Babies Without a Homeland That the Venezuelan Exodus May Leave in Colombia
By Lucía Ramírez Bolívar, Silvia Ruiz |
More than 8,200 pregnant Venezuelan women have entered the country. Their babies will be born in Colombia, but will not be Colombian. This is our first contribution to #PanasEnColombia, an initiative by the UNHCR, El Tiempo, W Radio and Dejusticia.
“Cúcuta: Emergency Exit,” A Special Series at the Frontlines
By Angélica María Cuevas Guarnizo, Carolina Gutiérrez |
Dejusticia (Colombia) and Provea (Venezuela) brought together ten journalists from Venezuela and three from Colombia to tell, through seven heartbreaking stories of suffering, sacrifice and hope at the border between the two countries.
Vacillation towards migrants
By César Rodríguez-Garavito (Retired in 2019) |
The situation of Venezuelan migrants is too serious and urgent to equivocate on good faith and sway with the changing political circumstances of each government.
