4.3 - Context, statistics, budget, training, dissemination, civil society
CEDAW/C/VEN/CO/6 (CEDAW, 2006)
Annotation Country Right Affected Person
Observations
n) national plan of action on sexual and reproductive health and increased efforts to provide family planning services
c) persistent high prevalence of teenage pregnancy
c) lack of detailed information about causes and consequences of abortion, which is third leading cause of maternal death
  • Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)
  • 4.2 - Institutions & policies
  • 4.3 - Context, statistics, budget, training, dissemination, civil society
  • 30 - Right to health
  • 34.1 - Elimination of discrimination against women
  • girls
  • indigenous
  • minorities/ racial, ethnic, linguistic, religious or descent-based groups
  • rural women
  • women
  Paragraph(s) 31
CEDAW/C/VEN/CO/6 (CEDAW, 2006)
Recommendations
r) pay special attention to the effective implementation and monitoring of national plan of action on sexual and reproductive health
r) should place higher priority on provision of family planning services, including information on contraceptives and their wide and easy availability in all regions of country, as well as provision of sex education, addressing both young women and men
r) ensure effective access of women to such information and to sexual and reproductive health services, particularly to young women, women from rural areas, indigenous women and women of African descent
i) undertake a survey on reasons for high rate of maternal deaths due to abortion and to adopt measures, including legislative and public policy measures, to reduce and eliminate related risks
i) include detailed information and data on incidence, causes and consequences of abortion as well as on impact of measures taken, disaggregated by age group, in next report
  • Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)
  • 4.2 - Institutions & policies
  • 4.3 - Context, statistics, budget, training, dissemination, civil society
  • 30 - Right to health
  • 34.1 - Elimination of discrimination against women
  • girls
  • indigenous
  • minorities/ racial, ethnic, linguistic, religious or descent-based groups
  • rural women
  • women
  Paragraph(s) 32
CEDAW/C/VEN/CO/6 (CEDAW, 2006)
Recommendations
r) wide dissemination of present concluding comments in order to make people, including government officials, politicians, parliamentarians and women's and human rights organizations, aware of steps that have been taken to ensure de jure and de facto equality of women, as well as further steps that are required in that regard
r) continue to disseminate widely, in particular to women's and human rights organizations, CEDAW, OP-CEDAW, CEDAW's general recommendations, Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action and outcome of twenty-third special session of the General Assembly, entitled "Women 2000: gender equality, development and peace for the twenty-first century"
  • Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)
  • 3.1 - Cooperation with treaty bodies
  • 4.3 - Context, statistics, budget, training, dissemination, civil society
  • 6 - Right to an effective remedy, impunity
  • general
  • women
  Paragraph(s) 39
CEDAW/C/VEN/CO/6 (CEDAW, 2006)
CRC/C/VEN/CO/2 (CRC, 2007)
Annotation Country Right Affected Person
Observations
w) resources are allocated as established by the legal framework of LOPNA targeting children and that these are distributed through the Funds for the Protection of Children and Adolescents at the national, state and municipal levels
n) significant increase of budget to social policies through public sector investments and social missions has taken place
c) remains difficult to disaggregate the precise spending on children in the total public expenditures
  • Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)
  • 4.3 - Context, statistics, budget, training, dissemination, civil society
  • children
  Paragraph(s) 18
CRC/C/VEN/CO/2 (CRC, 2007)
Recommendations
r) State party, in accordance with art. 4 of the Convention, develop its general budget, including the budgets of different missions, in a more systematic manner so that resources and investments for children are more transparent, making it easier to monitor spending
  • Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)
  • 4.3 - Context, statistics, budget, training, dissemination, civil society
  • children
  Paragraph(s) 19
CRC/C/VEN/CO/2 (CRC, 2007)
Observations
n) efforts and actions in the area of children’s rights, including by the National Council for the Rights of Children and Adolescents and the National Statistics Institute, aimed at increasing visibility of children in national indicators and statistics
n) delegation’s acknowledgement of the need to improve the national statistical information system in relation to children’s and adolescents’ rights, both in the production of data and in public access
c) lack of disaggregated data and indicators which would allow for efficient monitoring of plans and actions, including the monitoring of budgetary allocations and expenditures
  • Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)
  • 4.3 - Context, statistics, budget, training, dissemination, civil society
  • children
  • indigenous
  • minorities/ racial, ethnic, linguistic, religious or descent-based groups
  • persons deprived of their liberty
  • persons living in poverty
  • persons with disabilities
  • refugees and asylum-seekers
  • street children
  Paragraph(s) 20
CRC/C/VEN/CO/2 (CRC, 2007)
Recommendations
r) continue and strengthen its efforts to develop a comprehensive system of collection of data on the implementation of the Convention
r) data should cover all children’s rights for all children under 18
r) it should also be disaggregated by sex, age, ethnic group, indigenous children and children of Afro-descendants as well as those groups of children in need of special protection, such as children in detention, children requiring mental health assistance, children with disabilities, children in street situations, working children and refugee children
r) further its cooperation with UNICEF and other agencies in this regard
  • Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)
  • 4.3 - Context, statistics, budget, training, dissemination, civil society
  • children
  • indigenous
  • minorities/ racial, ethnic, linguistic, religious or descent-based groups
  • persons deprived of their liberty
  • persons living in poverty
  • persons with disabilities
  • refugees and asylum-seekers
  • street children
  Paragraph(s) 21
CRC/C/VEN/CO/2 (CRC, 2007)
Observations
n) measures undertaken to disseminate information about the content of the Convention
c) lack of awareness of the Convention in the public in general and amongst children and professionals in particular
  • Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)
  • 4.3 - Context, statistics, budget, training, dissemination, civil society
  • children
  • general
  Paragraph(s) 22
CRC/C/VEN/CO/2 (CRC, 2007)
Recommendations
r) strengthen efforts to disseminate the Convention throughout the country and to raise public awareness, in particular among children themselves, parents, teachers and authorities about its principles and provisions
r) cooperation with civil society organizations, such as academic centres, media and NGOs should be strengthened for this purpose
  • Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)
  • 4.3 - Context, statistics, budget, training, dissemination, civil society
  • children
  • general
  • media
  Paragraph(s) 23
CRC/C/VEN/CO/2 (CRC, 2007)
Recommendations
r) strengthen efforts to provide adequate and systematic training and/or sensitization on children’s rights to professional groups working with and for children, in particular law enforcement officials, as well as parliamentarians, judges, lawyers, health personnel, teachers, school administrators and others as required
r) continue to seek technical assistance from UNICEF and the Inter-American Institute of the Child for the training of professionals
  • Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)
  • 4.3 - Context, statistics, budget, training, dissemination, civil society
  • children
  • general
  • judiciary
  Paragraph(s) 24
CRC/C/VEN/CO/2 (CRC, 2007)
Observations
n) numerous initiatives and contributions of organizations of civil society in the development of the Sistema de Protección Integral para la Infancia y la Adolecencia while noting that such cooperation is decreasing
c) lack of participation of NGOs, children’s organizations and all other relevant partners in the reporting process and that the reform of LOPNA might narrow the operating space for non-governmental organizations specialized on children’s rights
  • Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)
  • 4.3 - Context, statistics, budget, training, dissemination, civil society
  • children
  • general
  Paragraph(s) 25
CRC/C/VEN/CO/2 (CRC, 2007)
Recommendations
r) encourage dialogue and cooperation with all civil society organizations, including the Consejos Sociales Municipales, children’s organizations and all other relevant partners active and systematically involved with children’s rights
r) encourage their active participation in the follow-up of the concluding observations of the Committee, in the process of preparation of its next reports and in the evaluation of the National Plan of Action



  • Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)
  • 4.3 - Context, statistics, budget, training, dissemination, civil society
  • children
  • general
  Paragraph(s) 26
CRC/C/VEN/CO/2 (CRC, 2007)
6 - Right to an effective remedy, impunity
CCPR/CO/71/VEN (HRC, 2001)
Annotation Country Right Affected Person
Observations
c) situation of judiciary which is still undergoing reform
c) extended reform process threatens independence of judiciary, given possibility that judges could be removed as result of performance of their duties, infringing arts 2 (3) and 14 ICCPR
c) lack of information on effects of reform process to date and absence of date for process come to end
  • Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)
  • 6 - Right to an effective remedy, impunity
  • 15 - Administration of justice & fair trial
  • judiciary
  Paragraph(s) 13
CCPR/CO/71/VEN (HRC, 2001)
Recommendations
r) reform of judiciary must not continue
i) furnish information on number of judges removed during process, reasons for removal and procedure followed
  • Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)
  • 6 - Right to an effective remedy, impunity
  • 15 - Administration of justice & fair trial
  • judiciary
  Paragraph(s) 13
CCPR/CO/71/VEN (HRC, 2001)
Observations
c) independence of judiciary extends to information delivered by delegation that Constitution empowers National Ethics Council (Consejo Moral Republicano) comprising Ombudsman, Attorney‑General and Comptroller‑General to issue warnings to judges, even those of Supreme Court, and impose sanctions if warnings not heeded
  • Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)
  • 6 - Right to an effective remedy, impunity
  • 15 - Administration of justice & fair trial
  • judiciary
  Paragraph(s) 14
CCPR/CO/71/VEN (HRC, 2001)
Recommendations
r) carry out careful review of enabling bill for Constitution to safeguard independence of judiciary in accordance with arts 2 (3) and 14 ICCPR
  • Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)
  • 6 - Right to an effective remedy, impunity
  • 15 - Administration of justice & fair trial
  • judiciary
  Paragraph(s) 14
CCPR/CO/71/VEN (HRC, 2001)
Observations
r) immediately repeal legislation (provision exempting rapist from any penalty if he marries the victim) incompatible with arts 3, 7, 23, 26, 2 (3) and 24 ICCPR taking into account early age at which girls can enter marriage
  • Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)
  • 6 - Right to an effective remedy, impunity
  • 12.1 - Prohibition of torture and cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment
  • 25 - Marriage and family
  • 34.1 - Elimination of discrimination against women
  • 34.2 - Gender-based violence against women; protection
  • 35.1 - Children: definition; general principles; protection
  • children
  • girls
  • women
  Paragraph(s) 20
CCPR/CO/71/VEN (HRC, 2001)
Observations
c) continued existence of legal provision exempting rapist from any penalty if he marries victim
  • Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)
  • 6 - Right to an effective remedy, impunity
  • 12.1 - Prohibition of torture and cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment
  • 25 - Marriage and family
  • 34.1 - Elimination of discrimination against women
  • 34.2 - Gender-based violence against women; protection
  • 35.1 - Children: definition; general principles; protection
  • children
  • girls
  • women
  Paragraph(s) 20
CCPR/CO/71/VEN (HRC, 2001)
Observations
c) lack of wide-ranging law prohibiting discrimination in private-sector areas as employment and housing; pursuant to art 2(3), and art 26 ICCPR, State has duty to protect persons against such discrimination
  • Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)
  • 6 - Right to an effective remedy, impunity
  • 7 - Non-discrimination
  • general
  Paragraph(s) 23
CCPR/CO/71/VEN (HRC, 2001)
Recommendations
r) promulgate law prohibiting discrimination and providing effective recourse for all persons against violations of their right to non-discrimination
  • Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)
  • 6 - Right to an effective remedy, impunity
  • 7 - Non-discrimination
  • general
  Paragraph(s) 23
CCPR/CO/71/VEN (HRC, 2001)
CAT/C/CR/29/2 (CAT, 2002)
Annotation Country Right Affected Person
Observations
w) entry into force on 30 December 1999 of new Constitution of Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, which contains areas of progress in human rights
w) in particular, following aspects of Constitution:
- it recognizes right of individuals to submit petitions or complaints to international bodies established for purpose in order to seek protection for their human rights; this recognition is in accordance with declaration by State in 1994 under article 22 of CAT
- it requires to investigate and impose penalties on human rights offences, declares that action to punish them is not subject to statute of limitations and excludes any measure implying impunity, such as amnesty or general pardon
- it requires offences concerning human rights violations and crimes against humanity to be heard in ordinary courts
- it imposes on State obligation of compensating in full victims of human rights violations and recognizes right to rehabilitation of victims of torture and cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment, inflicted or tolerated by agents of State
- it makes compulsory extradition of persons charged with human rights offences, and makes provision for brief, public, oral procedure for trying them


  • Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)
  • 4.1 - Legal framework
  • 6 - Right to an effective remedy, impunity
  • 12.1 - Prohibition of torture and cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment
  • general
  Paragraph(s) 6
CAT/C/CR/29/2 (CAT, 2002)
Observations
c) absence of prompt and impartial investigations of complaints of torture and cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment, and lack of accessible, institutionalized procedure in order to ensure right of victims of acts of torture to obtain redress and fair and adequate compensation as article 14 of CAT provides
  • Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)
  • 6 - Right to an effective remedy, impunity
  • 12.1 - Prohibition of torture and cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment
  • general
  Paragraph(s) 10
CAT/C/CR/29/2 (CAT, 2002)
Recommendations
r) adopt measures to regulate and institutionalize right of victims of torture to fair and adequate compensation and draw up programmes for physical and mental rehabilitation to fullest extent possible, as Committee had already recommended in its previous conclusions and recommendations
  • Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)
  • 6 - Right to an effective remedy, impunity
  • 12.1 - Prohibition of torture and cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment
  • general
  Paragraph(s) 11
CAT/C/CR/29/2 (CAT, 2002)
Recommendations
r) adopt all necessary measures to ensure immediate and impartial investigation of all cases of complaints of torture and cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment
r) agents concerned should be suspended from their duties during these investigations
  • Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)
  • 6 - Right to an effective remedy, impunity
  • 12.1 - Prohibition of torture and cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment
  • general
  Paragraph(s) 11
CAT/C/CR/29/2 (CAT, 2002)
CERD/C/VEN/CO/18 (CERD, 2005)
Annotation Country Right Affected Person
Observations
w) fact that art. 31 of Constitution recognizes right to address petitions to international human rights treaty bodies, and that in 2003 State made optional declaration provided for in art. 14 ICERD thus responding to request of CERD
CERD hopes that public is being appropriately informed about possibilities and procedures under mentioned article of ICERD
  • Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)
  • 2.1 - Status of international instruments
  • 6 - Right to an effective remedy, impunity
  • 9 - Racial discrimination
  • general
  Paragraph(s) 10
CERD/C/VEN/CO/18 (CERD, 2005)