Losing Balance: UN Tipping Points on Venezuela Human Rights Report

De Zayas: UN Human Rights Council’s Report on Venezuela is ‘Unbalanced’ (1/2)

by TRNN

July 12, 2019

Last week, the United Nations High Commissioner on Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet, released a report on the human rights situation in Venezuela. The report can safely be described as being quite scathing of the human rights situation. Here is an excerpt of Bachelet’s presentation of the report.

Former lawyer for the UN High Commissioner on Human Rights, Alfred de Zayas, says that High Commissioner Michelle Bachelet's report on human rights in Venezuela mostly ignores the severity and responsibility of US sanctions against Venezuela.