The Ambassador of Venezuela to the United Nations, Rafael Ramírez, recalled that during the latest review of the (UN’s) Human Rights Council, Venezuela achieved better results than the United States of America (US) and many Latin American countries that have raised their voices and attacked the Bolivarian nation.
“We went far better than the United States, better evaluated on human rights issues and much better evaluated than other Latin American countries that have unfortunately raised their voices against us”, said Ramirez in a video broadcast by the Foreign Ministry through its Twitter account.
He condemned that: “It is a double-standard issue where human rights are being used as a political instrument in order to intervene and attack”.
In this regard, he said that multilateralism and regional organizations such as the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States are an important arena for the discussion on the subject of human rights.
Ramirez said that during the 72nd UN General Assembly in New York, United States, Venezuela has been one of the countries most recognized for the promotion of social policies to meet the needs of the population, and the struggle for sovereignty and self-determination of the peoples.
“In here is still sounding the speech and the voice of Commander (Hugo) Chávez and what our national positions have been in defending the developing countries”, he said.
Last March, Venezuela received the acknowledgement of the Human Rights Council (DDHH) of the United Nations (UN), for its sustained policy of respect, guarantees and protection of human rights and cooperation with international organizations promoted by the National Government.
During the 2nd Universal Periodic Review (UPR) of the UN Human Rights Council, Venezuela reported that it complied with 70% of the recommendations made by this body to strengthen areas such as access to justice, gender equality, sexual and reproductive rights, eradication of poverty, and political and protagonist participation in public affairs, among other areas.
In addition, the Bolivarian nation signed 24 voluntary commitments on human rights to advance in issues such as: the implementation of 100% of the new Venezuelan penitentiary system, the design of comprehensive public policies for citizen security, victims of violence and human rights training of police officers.
The UPR is a mechanism of the UN Human Rights Council that allows each Member State to state what measures it has taken to improve, maintain and increase the situation on human rights.
Venezuela has submitted two reports to the UPR, one in 2011 and the other in 2016. In both, its work in this area has been acknowledged.
