Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela

Council closes forty-second regular session, establishes a fact-finding mission on Venezuela
27 September 2019
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• Urgently dispatch a mission to the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela to investigate extrajudicial executions, enforced disappearances, arbitrary detentions and torture and other cruel, inhumane or degrading treatment since 2014.
• Ensure full accountability for perpetrators and justice for victims.
• Present a report on its findings to the Council during an interactive dialogue at its forty-fifth session.
  

​The Mission invites interested individuals, groups and organizations to submit information and/or documents relevant to its mandate.

In particular, the Fact-Finding Mission is interested in receiving information related to alleged cases of extrajudicial executions, enforced disappearances, arbitrary detentions and torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment, including sexual or gender-based violence, perpetrated since 2014 in the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, as per Human Rights Council resolution 42/25.

Deadline: 31 May 2020

• Marta Valiñas (Chair)
  
• Francisco Cox Vial
  
• Paul Seils
  

• Human Rights Council Resolution A/HRC/RES/42/25 on the situation of human rights in the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela