The Clooney Foundation for Justice has been conducting critical work in Venezuela, where officials violate human rights by cracking down on dissent, trying civilians before military courts, and carrying out extrajudicial executions, among other crimes. Since at least 2014, the Venezuelan authorities have responded to mass protests against the government with systematic repression and crimes against humanity that resulted in the deaths of thousands of protesters.
The Docket
After years of investigating the violence, The Docket filed a complaint in Argentina denouncing the crimes against humanity committed in Venezuela under the principle of universal jurisdiction, which allows countries to prosecute the most serious international crimes regardless of where they took place.
Just one month later, in July 2023, the Argentine federal prosecutor opened the investigation based on The Docket’s findings.
Our TrialWatch initiative has been working in Venezuela as part of our wider body of work on reproductive rights and overturning discriminatory laws around the world.
With the American Bar Association Center for Human Rights, we monitored the trial of a teacher who spent three months in pretrial detention after she provided abortion medication to a girl who had been raped. The report highlights the effect of Venezuela’s draconian anti-abortion laws on the most marginalized members of society – particularly young women and girls, women living in poverty, and victims of violence.
TrialWatch’s work on reproductive rights in the region extends to XYZ.
Evidence submitted by CFJ and Foro Penal in Venezuela will contribute to the first-ever ICC investigation in a Latin American country.
CFJ and Venezuelan human rights organization Foro Penal submitted a dossier of evidence to the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court to support investigations against crimes against humanity, torture, arbitrary detention and sexual abuse committed by...
Venezuela: Justice for Survivors and Victims
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Evidence submitted by CFJ and Foro Penal in Venezuela will contribute to the first-ever ICC investigation in a Latin American country.
CFJ and Venezuelan human rights organization Foro Penal submitted a dossier of evidence to the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court to support investigations against crimes against humanity, torture, arbitrary detention and sexual abuse committed by state officials of the Maduro regime in Venezuela. This evidence will contribute to the first-ever ICC investigation in a Latin American country.
Given the lack of a genuine investigation at the domestic level, many victims we represent look at the ICC as their only hope for justice and we owe it to people putting themselves in danger to fight for that justice.
President of Foro Penal
