{"id":21605,"date":"2017-08-17T12:38:55","date_gmt":"2017-08-17T16:38:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dplf.org\/en\/?p=21605"},"modified":"2024-09-12T12:39:56","modified_gmt":"2024-09-12T16:39:56","slug":"dplf-along-with-other-human-rights-organizations-denounce-threats-of-a-military-option-in-venezuela","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dplf.org\/en\/2017\/08\/17\/dplf-along-with-other-human-rights-organizations-denounce-threats-of-a-military-option-in-venezuela\/","title":{"rendered":"DPLF along with other human rights organizations denounce threats of a \u201cmilitary option\u201d in Venezuela"},"content":{"rendered":"

August 15, 2017<\/strong>. \u2013 We, the undersigned organizations, members of the International Coalition of Human Rights Organizations in the Americas, reject the statements\u00a0issued this past Friday, August 11<\/a>, by the President of the United States, Donald Trump, in which he expressed that he would not rule out a military option in the face of the Venezuelan crisis. This rejection has also been\u00a0expressed by<\/a>\u00a0Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Mexico, Paraguay and Uruguay.<\/p>\n

In the wake of these statements, we would like to indicate that any measure that attempts to resolve the grave situation currently experienced by Venezuela cannot resort to violence. Since April, more than 120 people have died in peaceful protests organized by various sectors of civil society. Moreover, the economic, food and health crisis is getting worse. \u00a0It is fundamental that all proposals developed by the international community and any individual countries do not provoke more suffering and pain for this country\u2019s residents.<\/p>\n

Moreover, the United States has a long history of unilateral intervention in the hemisphere\u2019s conflicts. The threats made by the United States\u2019 president\u00a0fuels the justifications<\/a>\u00a0used by the Venezuelan State to continue implementing policies that exacerbate the situation of scarcity and repression. Any military action would further harm the Venezuelan people.<\/p>\n

The only option to solve the problems in Venezuela should be a peaceful exit. The last five months have been marked by serious violations of human rights, among them thousands of arbitrary detentions, illegal forced entries, invasions of privacy, restrictions on the exercise of the rights to freedom of expression, association and assembly, harassment of human rights defenders, limiting political rights,\u00a0the use of military tribunals to prosecute citizens detained in protests<\/a>, among other repressive acts undertaken by the Venezuelan government.<\/p>\n

In addition, there has been a total dismantling of the Venezuelan democracy, which intensified beginning in March with the Supreme Court of Justice\u2019s failed attempt to\u00a0assume<\/a>\u00a0Parliamentary functions, as well as the recent dismissal of the Attorney General. The installation of the National Constituent Assembly on July 30, 2017, which ignored the referendum that was held two weeks before and the constitutional process for its convening, represents the abolition of the 1999 National Constitution and the lack of legal protection for Venezuelans\u2019 fundamental rights.<\/p>\n

Throughout, the State\u2019s response has been to increase violence and try to isolate itself even more from the rest of the region, as its decision\u00a0to leave the Organization of American States (OAS)<\/a>\u00a0demonstrates. The current crisis has resulted in an exodus of thousands of Venezuelans, mostly, for other countries in the region.<\/p>\n

Finally, because this is a crisis with regional consequences, the responses to the situation in Venezuela should be multilateral, with the explicit aim of not exacerbating the country\u2019s political and regional isolation. Furthermore, these proposals should seek to strengthen international human rights mechanisms so that they can respond more effectively to victims of the violence that has been unleashed in the country, as well as the migrants and refugees who seek to leave.<\/p>\n

To that effect, as undersigned organizations, we support all serious and non-violent measures which promote and reinforce the reestablishment of democracy and reject violence. In solidarity with the\u00a0statement of various Venezuelan civil society organizations<\/a>, we demand that human rights experts from the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights and the United Nations visit the country.<\/p>\n

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Organizaciones Firmantes
\nRegional<\/strong>
\nAsociaci\u00f3n Interamericana para la Defensa del Ambiente, AIDA
\nCentro por la Justicia y el Derecho Internacional (CEJIL)
\nComit\u00e9 de Am\u00e9rica Latina y el Caribe para la Defensa de los Derechos de las Mujeres (CLADEM)
\nDue Process of Law Foundation (DPLF)
\nIniciativas Globales por los Derechos Humanos, Heartland Alliance for Human Needs & Human Rights
\nInstituto Internacional sobre Raza, Igualdad y Derechos Humanos
\nRobert F. Kennedy Human Rights<\/p>\n

Bolivia<\/strong>
\nOficina Jur\u00eddica para la Mujer de Cochabamba<\/p>\n

Chile<\/strong>
\nCentro regional de derechos humanos y justicia de g\u00e9nero, Corporaci\u00f3n Humanas<\/p>\n

Colombia<\/strong>
\nGrupo Interdisciplinario por los Derechos Humanos (GIDH)
\nColectivo de Abogados Jos\u00e9 Alvear Restrepo (CCAJAR)
\nComisi\u00f3n Colombiana de Juristas
\nCorporaci\u00f3n Sisma Mujer<\/p>\n

Costa Rica<\/strong>
\nDefensa de ni\u00f1as y ni\u00f1os- Internacional DNI Costa Rica<\/p>\n

El Salvador<\/strong><\/p>\n

Red Para la Infancia y la Adolescencia de El Salvador (RIA)\n<\/p>\n

Ecuador<\/strong>
\nCentro de Documentaci\u00f3n en Derechos Humanos \u201cSegundo Montes Mozo S.J.\u201d (CSMM)
\nTerra Mater
\nComisi\u00f3n Ecum\u00e9nica de Derechos Humanos (CEDHU) de Ecuador<\/p>\n

Guatemala<\/strong>
\nAsociaci\u00f3n para el Estudio y la Promoci\u00f3n de la Seguridad en Democracia (SEDEM)
\nFundaci\u00f3n Myrna Mack<\/p>\n

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M\u00e9xico<\/strong>
\nAbogadas y Abogados para la Justicia y los Derechos Humanos
\nAsistencia Legal por los Derechos Humanos A.C. (ASILEGAL)
\nCentro de Derechos Humanos Miguel Agust\u00edn Pro Ju\u00e1rez<\/p>\n

Nicaragua<\/strong>
\nMovimiento Aut\u00f3nomo de Mujeres
\nCentro Nicarag\u00fcense de Derechos Humanos \u2013 CENIDH<\/p>\n

Per\u00fa<\/strong>
\nAsociaci\u00f3n Pro Derechos Humanos (APRODEH)
\nPaz y Esperanza<\/p>\n

Uruguay<\/strong>
\nInstituto de Estudios Legales y Sociales (IELSUR)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

August 15, 2017. \u2013 We, the undersigned organizations, members of the International Coalition of Human Rights Organizations in the Americas, reject the statements\u00a0issued this past Friday, August 11, by the President of the United States, Donald Trump, in which he expressed that he would not rule out a military option in the face of the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[681],"tags":[],"country":[888,897],"issue":[860],"program":[873],"resource":[896],"class_list":["post-21605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","country-america-del-sur","country-venezuela","issue-other-issues","program-transitional-justice-and-fight-against-impunity","resource-press-releases"],"acf":{"boton_1":"","url_boton_1\u00ba":"","boton_2":"","url_boton_2":"","boton_3":"","url_boton_3":"","boton_4":"","url_boton_4":"","boton_5":"","url_boton_5":"","boton_6":"","url_boton_6":"","boton_7":"","url_boton_7":"","boton_8":"","url_boton_8":"","boton_9":"","url_boton_9":"","boton_10":"","url_boton_10":""},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dplf.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21605"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dplf.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dplf.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dplf.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dplf.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21605"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dplf.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21605\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21606,"href":"https:\/\/dplf.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21605\/revisions\/21606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dplf.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dplf.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dplf.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21605"},{"taxonomy":"country","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dplf.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/country?post=21605"},{"taxonomy":"issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dplf.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issue?post=21605"},{"taxonomy":"program","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dplf.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/program?post=21605"},{"taxonomy":"resource","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dplf.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/resource?post=21605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}