On August 23, the Ministry for Foreign Affairs (Mppre) summoned representatives from 10 parishes belonging to the Citizen Police Control Committees (CPCC) to participate in a workshop to exchange experiences and evaluate the performance of police bodies in the Greater Caracas, an activity whose conclusions and recommendations will feed a report on the International Pact on Civil and Political Rights that will be presented by Venezuela to the United Nations Organization (UN).
The information was released by Edgardo Toro, coordinator of the State Agency for the International Human Rights System of the MPPRE (Ministry of People’s Power for Foreign Affairs), during his participation in the «Derechos Humanos en Revolución» (Human Rights in Revolution) program, broadcast every Thursday by RNV Informative channel, referring to the process of consultation implemented by the National Executive for the preparation of the document that will be presented in the coming months to the international organization.
In his speech, the official explained that these activities are part of the mechanisms put in place by the Bolivarian Government in order to involve all sectors that make life in the country without exception, in fulfilling the international commitments acquired by the Venezuelan State in Human Rights.
The importance of the participation of the CPCC, formed in the different political and territorial spheres, in the elaboration of the report is that they carry out a citizen comptroller to the Corps of Scientific, Criminal and Criminal Investigations to the National Service of Medicine and Forensic Sciences, to the Bolivarian National Police Corps and other state and municipal police corps.
Toro stressed that this consultation process has collected and validated information with very positive results, which pose new challenges and strengthen the articulation of the State with a People’s Power that is heard and whose work is acknowledged:
“For the Venezuelan Government it is an obligation to involve the different sectors that make up the civil society that makes life in the country, with the purpose of feeding with exact figures and own experiences all the content of the report that will be presented to the UN”, he explained.
As a State that is Part of the Pact, and under article 40 thereof, our nation is committed to submit periodic reports to the Human Rights Committee, composed of 18 international experts, regarding the respect and validity in Venezuela of the rights enshrined in this International instrument.
The International Pact on Civil and Political Rights, ratified by 147 States Members of the United Nations, regulates rights such as life, physical and mental integrity of persons, due process, non-discrimination on the grounds of sex, creed, race or social status, freedom of expression and association, among others.
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