Human Right office – Summaries of news and views OnVenezuela https://onvenezuela.com Fri, 16 Feb 2024 13:42:30 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 https://onvenezuela.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/cropped-Screen-Shot-2019-12-20-at-12.31.03-PM-1-32x32.png Human Right office – Summaries of news and views OnVenezuela https://onvenezuela.com 32 32 Venezuela Shuts Down UN Human Rights Office, Expels Staff https://onvenezuela.com/venezuela-shuts-down-un-human-rights-office-expels-staff/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=venezuela-shuts-down-un-human-rights-office-expels-staff Thu, 22 Feb 2024 10:37:00 +0000 https://onvenezuela.com/?p=16996

Venezuela on Thursday ordered the U.N. human rights office in Caracas to shut down all operations, ordering the staff to leave the country within three days. During a news conference, Foreign Affairs Minister Yvan Gil announced the decision, saying that the office had played an “inappropriate role” and had become the “private law firm of the coup plotters and terrorists who permanently conspire against the country.” He added that the decision would remain in effect until the office publicly rectified its “colonialist, abusive and violating attitude of the United Nations Charter.” Full Text -> VOA

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