This report was prepared by AlertaVenezuela with contributions from 15 Venezuelan organizations dedicated to a variety of issues and rights. It consists of a compilation of assessments, based on each organization’s expertise and mandate, on the status of compliance with the recommendations accepted by the Venezuelan state within the framework of the Third Cycle of the Universal Periodic Review (UPR).
In the third UPR cycle, Venezuela accepted 221 of the 328 recommendations made by states. For this report, 88 of the 221 accepted recommendations were analyzed, based on the responses to the consultation with civil society organizations. The recommendations are grouped into different rights groups, as shown in the table of contents, and ordered consecutively. Each recommendation was assessed according to the degree of compliance by the Venezuelan state, according to four categories: met, partially met, not met, and in regression. It is possible that different assessments may be given for the same recommendation, as each organization manages its own compliance assessment indicators.
The Venezuelan state has repeatedly ignored the mandate of the Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on Venezuela, as well as the reports submitted by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, prepared based on Human Rights Council resolutions. Venezuela’s rejection of these mechanisms is based on arguments alleging an alleged selective practice in monitoring certain countries, as well as allegations of interference in internal affairs, as these mechanisms do not have the consent of the state concerned.
Venezuela recognizes the Universal Periodic Review as the only valid peer-to-peer human rights monitoring mechanism. In this sense, the complete failure to comply with recommendations voluntarily accepted by the Venezuelan state refutes its narrative of alleged cooperation with the international human rights protection system in peer review forums, even when these recommendations have been accepted by the country.