Venezuela: UN Creates Independent Investigative Body

Expand Voting record of the resolution adopted by the UN Human Rights Council on Venezuela, Geneva, September 27, 2019. © 2019 Human Rights Watch (Geneva) – The United Nations Human Rights Council has taken a crucial step to ensure that Venezuelan victims have access to justice and that those responsible for serious abuses are held accountable for their crimes, Human Rights Watch said today. On September 27, 2019, the Human Rights Council adopted a resolution to create an independent fact-finding body to investigate extrajudicial executions, enforced disappearances, arbitrary arrests, torture,…

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