A/HRC/41/18 United Nations General Assembly Distr.: General 9 October 2019 Original: English Human Rights Council Forty-first session 24 June–12 July 2019 Agenda item 2 Annual report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and reports of the Office of the High Commissioner and the Secretary-General Human rights in the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela Report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights* Summary Submitted pursuant to Human Rights Council resolution 39/1, the present report provides an overview of the human rights situation in the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela from January 2018 to May 2019. * The present report was submitted after the deadline so as to include the most recent information. GE.19-17388(E) 