Civil and political freedoms in Venezuela have sharply deteriorated over the past year, according to the United Nations’ top ...

Arbitrary detentions, forced disappearances, torture and ill-treatment -- particularly during recent elections -- are among ...

Venezuela’s ruling party-controlled National Assembly on Tuesday declared Volker Türk, the United Nations high commissioner ...

UN secretary-general 'reiterates that he is deeply concerned about reports of the arbitrary detention of opposition figures, ...

UN human rights office resumes activities in Venezuela despite Maduro clash. Commissioner Volker Turk reiterated he is ‘deeply concerned’ about the violence following Venezuela’s contested ...

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — The U.N. office on human rights in Venezuela partially resumed operations in recent weeks, the agency's chief said Friday, months after the government of President ...

Venezuela’s government has ordered the local U.N. office on human rights to suspend its operations and has given its staff 72 hours to leave the country, accusing it of promoting opposition to ...

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — The U.N. office on human rights in Venezuela has partially resumed operations in recent weeks. That's according to the agency's ...

The fallout from Venezuela’s presidential election continued this week as the United Nations Human Rights Council announced it was launching an investigation into the controversial election over ...

The Venezuela government-allied National Assembly unanimously declared United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights ...

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — The U.N. office on human rights in Venezuela partially resumed operations in recent weeks, the agency's chief said Friday, months after the government of President ...

GENEVA (Reuters) - The United Nations human rights watchdog has in part resumed its activities in Venezuela, its chief said on Monday, after it was forced to leave the country nearly 10 months ago ...