The debate at the UN

[Bacchus39]

http://www.eluniversal.com/2011/08/20/the-debate-at-the-un.shtml

Dossier
70% of prisoners have not been sentenced
There is a structural issue in the judicial branch: judges, prosecutors and other court clerks cannot cope with all the work they have. The Ombudsman's Office finished almost 26,000 cases in 2009, but it got other 139,271 cases. That same year, only 3% of over 9,200 complaints related to human rights abuses were settled in court. These are just few numbers that Cofavic, Provene, Control Ciudadano and other NGOs submitted to the United Nations ahead of the Universal Periodical Review of the country in October.

Over 120,000 deaths in 10 years
In the last decade, there are records of 124,500 citizens killed in the country by ordinary criminals, criminal organizations, or executed by the police. The Institute for Research on Coexistence and Citizen Security expressed this concern to the United Nations as a preamble to warn about the crime rate in the country.

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181 labor unionists murdered
In the last six years, there is news about 181 workers and union leaders who were murdered due to labor disputes and denunciations about hoarding of jobs. Most homicides are unpunished. The Commission of Experts of the International Labor Organization adds that the reform of the Venezuelan Criminal Code and other laws restrict the exercise of the rights to demonstrations and strikes.

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2,400 accused for protesting
Regarding freedom of expression, there are certain points that civil society claims to the government and the rest of the State powers. Provea (the Venezuelan Program of Education-Action in Human Rights) wonders, for instance, if protesting is a crime. Besides denouncing that the Organic Law of National Security, among other legal instruments, restricts the rights to strikes, the NGO also affirms that more than 2,400 citizens are subject to criminal proceedings for having participated in public demonstrations.

[naaman fletcher]

1. sounds like a situation fascists would support. nt.

[ocpagu]

2. I'd love to see

how does Colombia perform in these same statistics.

[joshcryer]

3. 181 labor unionists murdered