Ammesty International blasts Venezuela for abandoning human rights instrument
Venezuela must immediately reverse its decision to withdraw from the American Convention on Human Rights and make a commitment to truly protect all individuals, Amnesty International said on Monday. The Venezuelan government’s decision will take effect on Tuesday 10 September. The withdrawal will leave Venezuelan citizens without the protection of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights.
“This decision is an insult to the victims of human rights violations and places future generations of Venezuelans at risk. What’s more, it goes against Venezuela’s constitution, which guarantees access to international bodies to seek protection of their human rights,” said Guadalupe Marengo, Deputy Director of the Americas Program at Amnesty International.
“The Venezuelan government’s attitude is highly contradictory. On the one hand it is promoting universal ratification of the American Convention on Human Rights and urging other countries to ratify this instrument while, on the other, it is withdrawing from it and denying its inhabitants access to the protection of one of its bodies.”
The regional and international human rights protection systems were set up to provide everyone with an external body that they could turn to if they were unable to obtain justice and reparation for human rights violations within their own countries.
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