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80.
The State has systematically denied victims of human rights violations their rights to
truth, justice and reparations. Impunity has enabled the recurrence of human rights
violations, emboldened perpetrators and side-lined victims. OHCHR is concerned that if the
situation does not improve, the unprecedented outflow of Venezuelan migrants and
refugees will continue to grow and the living conditions of those remaining will worsen.
VII. Recommendations
81.
OHCHR calls upon the Government of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela to
immediately:
(a)
Take all measures necessary to ensure the availability and accessibility of
food, water, essential medicines and health-care services, including comprehensive
preventive health-care programmes, with particular attention to children and
maternal services, including sexual and reproductive health care;
(b)
Take immediate measures to halt, remedy and prevent human rights
violations, in particular gross violations such as torture and extrajudicial executions;
(c)
Conduct prompt, effective, thorough, independent, impartial and
transparent investigations into human rights violations, including killings of
indigenous peoples, and bring perpetrators to justice;
(d)
Release all persons arbitrarily deprived of their liberty;
(e)
Halt, publicly condemn, punish and prevent all acts of persecution and
targeted repression based on political grounds, including stigmatizing rhetoric and
smear campaigns;
(f)
Adopt effective measures to protect human rights defenders and media
professionals;
(g)
Cease any intimidation and attacks against indigenous peoples, including
leaders, and ensure their protection and take all necessary measures to protect their
individual and collective rights, including their right to land;
(h)
Cease and prevent excessive use of force during demonstrations;
(i)
Dissolve the Special Action Forces of the Bolivarian National Police and
establish an impartial and independent national mechanism, with the support of the
international community, to investigate extrajudicial executions during security
operations, ensure accountability of perpetrators and redress for victims;
(j)
Take effective measures to restore the independence of the justice system
and ensure the impartiality of the Office of the Attorney General and the
Ombudsperson;
(k)
Ensure the right to remedy and reparations for victims, with a gendersensitive approach, as well as guarantee their protection from intimidation and
retaliation;
(l)
children;
(m)
Ensure the right to identity and documentation for all persons, including
Accept and facilitate the establishment of a permanent OHCHR country
office.
82.
In addition, OHCHR calls upon the Government to:
(a)
Regularly publish comprehensive health and nutritional data,
disaggregated by sex, age, ethnicity and location, that may be used, inter alia, to
develop and implement a full-scale humanitarian response to the crisis;
(b)
Allocate the maximum available resources towards the progressive
realization of economic and social rights in a transparent and accountable manner
that allows the assessment of expenditures;
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