#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
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 |
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.
Dejusticia intervenes in defense of Venezuelan migrants’ right to health
By Lucía Ramírez Bolívar |
The Constitutional Court invited Dejusticia to present their legal opinion on two cases concerning the right to health of people coming from Venezuela.
The Yukpas: The Indigenous community who migrated to Colombia in search of rice
By Carolina Gutiérrez, Angélica María Cuevas Guarnizo |
One of Colombia’s greatest challenges as it relates to Venezuela’s migration crisis is the ethnic group who came from the neighboring country, having fled the crisis and asking to be recognized as binational citizens. They are some 300 people who decry the death of two of their children, the disappearances of some of their members, and the consistent threats they face.
The collective despair of Venezuelans passing through Cúcuta
By Angélica María Cuevas Guarnizo |
In response to the presidential elections, a repeated phrase is heard among those crossing the Simon Bolivar bridge to take refuge in other countries across South America: “Only God can save Venezuela."
Venezuela in a spiral
By César Rodríguez-Garavito |
El Helicoide gets its name from the geometric shape of the building that houses the prison, which resembles a spiral. The crisis in the prison and the elections this Sunday could worsen the spiral of Maduro’s regime towards arbitrariness.
