The mission of determining facts about Venezuela, in its various oral reports before the Human Rights Council, has raised the trimmed financing they receive, as well as the difficulties in accessing and evaluating the Venezuelan situation within the territory and interviewing the authorities
Patricia Tappatá Valdez and Francisco Cox Vial, two of the three experts of the independent mission of facts on Venezuela, presented their resignations to the United Nations Human Rights Council. In their writings, they alleged “difficulties” for the fulfillment of their work, in reference to the cuts facing the multilateral agency for lack of financing.
The first to present Your resignation On September 23 was Francisco Cox, Chilean criminal lawyer who also worked in a group of experts to investigate the disappearance of 43 students in Ayotzinapa (Mexico).
In the brief, the Chilean expert said that his resignation will have an effect as of October 31, and pointed out that it is due to “other professional obligations together with the conviction that I have fulfilled my function” within the independent mission.
He also noted that “new eyes can better contribute to the fulfillment of the FFM mandate, added to the conditions in which we have had to work during this year have determined this decision.”
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While the defender of Human Your letter that its decision is based on “the continuous difficulties with which the mission has worked and the recently announced limitations that will add precariousness.”
The UN It crosses a financial crisis Due to the delays and tax of the Member States, including Venezuela, as well as the lack of external financing, which has forced the Humanitarian aid programsGroups of experts and other independent mechanisms of the multilateral organism to address situations of human rights violations around the world.
Tappatá indicated that this “precariousness” goes against the work of the mission of determination on Venezuela, created in 2019 and that depends on a “professional team with specialized knowledge and dedication.”
“The tragic and pressing Venezuelan reality requires not only renewed energy, but also greater responsibility to the states that grant mandates to the investigation commissions and who must ensure the viability and operation of these special procedures,” said the Argentine expert.
He also recalled that during his period he has delivered “certain and precise information” about serious human rights violations and possible crimes against humanity. “Likewise, when it was possible, we documented the responsibilities that fit the authorities of the Executive, Legislative and Judicial Power in the violations (…) that so much suffering from the people” of Venezuela.
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The mission of determining facts about Venezuela, in its various oral reports before the Human Rights Council, has raised the trimmed financing they receive, as well as the difficulties in accessing and evaluating the Venezuelan situation within the territory and interviewing the authorities.
Both experts thanked the Human Rights Council for their appointments, as well as their colleague Marta Valiñas, who presides over the group, and the rest of the team that integrates this independent mechanism. They also made a “special recognition of the victims, anonymous people and Human Rights of Venezuela who continue working to document the Venezuelan situation in the hardest conditions.”
*Journalism in Venezuela is exercised in a hostile environment for the press with dozens of legal instruments arranged for the punishment of the word, especially the laws “against hatred”, “against fascism” and “against blockade.” This content was written taking into consideration the threats and limits that, consequently, have been imposed on the dissemination of information from within the country.
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