NGOs’s join to share human rights situation in Venezuela

O project was created by NGOs Access to Justice (OJ), Venezuelan Observatory of Fake News (OVFN), Justice, Meeting and Forgiveness (JEP), and University Observatory (OU), announced the entities through a video conference on Friday.

“ We have created this platform that aims to be a technical antidote and a coordinated and rigorous response to this institutional siege and the criminalization of the defence of human rights in our country,” explained the JEP coordinator during the presentation of pulsevenezuela.org.

Marta Tineo, a lawyer, explained that the platform appears in a context of “opacity” as “state policy” in Venezuela and that it will function as “a unified data center and an interactive panel, designed to collect, process and integrate data on the human rights and civic space situation in the country, given the absence of official public information”.

Laura Louza, from Access to Justice, explained that “government standards remain the same after January 3rd” of 2026, when the United States captured the then president of the Republic Nicolás Maduro in Caracas.

“The situation has not changed structurally (...), opacity, lack of accountability and the total absence of the rule of law persist,” he said.

During the presentation, lawyer Alí Daniels, co-director of Access to Justice, said, on the other hand, that in Venezuela, “every day, a new wave of misinformation emerges that disguises itself as information”, stressing that the new platform will fight these situations.

“ Best of all, our organisations have strict mechanisms to publish information, with seriousness and rigor that allow us to consider it as a source of information,” he added.

The Pulso Venezuela platform is available in Spanish and English and contains informative alerts and graphics with updated data on complaints of violations of economic, political, civil, social and cultural rights.

Among other data, he needs 452 political prisoners in the country, including 38 serious patients, 44 of them women and 44 foreigners with dual nationality.

“ Political arrest destroys the family nucleus far beyond bars. When a father is held for years, the home goes into a silent collapse, in which the mother has to take on the economic burden, the physical wear and the constant anguish of waiting, putting her own life on pause”, can be read on the website.

According to the promoters of the initiative, the portal is “an indispensable consultation and permanent updating tool for journalists, researchers, activists and citizenship in general”.