Venezuela - Venezuela urged to improve media situation

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Venezuela's year-old economic and social crisis has had a big impact on freedom of information. Physical attacks on journalists have hurt the climate for independent media and freely-reported news has become rare, adding information to the list of basic staples in short supply. During its last Universal Periodic Review (UPR) by the UN Human Rights Council in October 2011, the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela was asked to guarantee unrestricted access to state-held information as soon as (...)

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