The New Deforestation Rules are scheduled to come into effect on December 31 of this year for large Venezuelan cocoa and coffee producers.

This was stated by María Madrid, International Relations Officer at the European Commission’s Directorate-General for the Environment, who added that Venezuelan companies will have to comply with the country’s laws regarding not only trade but also environmental and human rights matters.

The new deforestation regulations for the import of coffee and cocoa from Venezuela were presented on Tuesday, April 21, by the UN delegation in the South American country to producers, exporters, traders, and merchants.

Madrid emphasized that “the regulations were developed after analyzing the products that have the greatest impact on deforestation, including beef, soy, timber, coffee, cocoa, rubber, and palm oil, as well as their derivatives.”

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The recent decision by the Salvadoran Congress to extend the presidential term to six years and a constitutional reform allowing indefinite reelection has sparked criticism both within and outside the country. Nayib Bukele, the current president, has said that the measure is not a threat to democracy.

This is how the president referred this Sunday, August 3, to the “express procedure, the Congress, dominated by the ruling party,” through which last Thursday a constitutional reform was approved that allows indefinite reelection, extends the term from five to six years, and eliminates the second round of elections.”

Bukele faced criticism regarding the reforms, which quickly flooded social media. Organizations such as “Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch (HRW), and the Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA) considered the decision a death blow to democracy and a manipulation of the Constitution to favor Bukele’s ambitions for power.”

The Salvadoran president, for his part, steers clear of comments that define him as a dictator. He currently enjoys great popularity for his fight against gangs, which has reduced violence in the country to historic lows.

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As part of the visit to Venezuela by the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, Karim Khan, the president of the Caribbean nation, Nicolás Maduro, announced this Tuesday, April 23, that he is open to the return of the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights.

The decision came at the request of the ICC prosecutor, who has met since Monday with the vice president, Delcy Rodríguez, President Nicolás Maduro, and other government representatives.

As you will remember, approximately two months ago Maduro expelled the representatives of the ACHNUD from Venezuela. Now, the Venezuelan president indicates that they must overcome the differences they had, leave the conflict behind.

In this regard, Khan has stated: “I am grateful that you have expressed your commitment at my request to allow the ACHNUD to return to Venezuela and give it effect as soon as possible, I think it is something very positive.”

The date when the office of Volker Türk, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, can be back in Venezuela is unknown.

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This Monday, April 22, the attorney general of the International Criminal Court (ICC), Karim Khan, arrived in Venezuela for a meeting with President Nicolás Maduro. During the meeting, the prosecutor reaffirmed the opening of an office in the country to “cooperate in the investigation of human rights violations.”

From the Venezuelan Parliament, Khan declared: “After this meeting, I will be opening an office in Venezuela. It is not a secret office, I do not work illegally or clandestinely. In terms of these decisions, we are opening an office for the support and agreement with Venezuela.”

He stressed that they will continue to work in the way they have been doing, with independence and impartiality, “without ulterior motives, so that the law, by the grace of God, reigns effectively.”

According to the ICC prosecutor, the investigations are focused on aspects such as “crimes that may constitute genocides, war crimes, or crimes against humanity.”

As will be remembered, the international court began a preliminary examination of the South American nation in 2018 after a complaint filed by Argentina, Colombia, Chile, Paraguay, Peru and Canada about the situation in Venezuela. “The examination became a formal investigation in November 2021, after Khan’s first official visit to Caracas.”

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Within the framework of the First Russia-Latin America International Parliamentary Conference, parliamentarians from Russia and Latin America expressed their strong condemnation of the unilateral sanctions imposed by Western countries on a group of thirty nations.

The President of the Russian Senate, Valentina Matviyenko, during her speech at the plenary session of the conference in Moscow, stated forcefully: “We firmly oppose sanctions, any unilateral restrictions of an illegitimate nature that violate international law and the norms of the International Trade”.

Matviyenko called for cooperation in international parliamentary spaces to combat this illegal practice and highlighted the situation in Cuba, which has been under blockade for more than six decades, as an example of the harmful consequences of these sanctions.

The president of the National Assembly of Venezuela, Jorge Rodríguez, also denounced the serious situation caused by these sanctions, pointing out that “currently, 30 countries are suffering 26,162 sanctions imposed by a single country and its allies, which represents 28% of the world population”. Rodríguez described these unilateral measures as a new “plague” that affects the well-being of people, their right to public health, as well as their access to technology and development.

The president of the Popular Assembly of Cuba, Esteban Lazo, highlighted the “unprecedented intensification” of the United States economic and financial blockade against his country, mentioning the 243 new measures imposed by former President Donald Trump and maintained by the Joe Biden administration. . Lazo described Cuba’s inclusion on the list of countries sponsoring terrorism as “especially cruel and politically motivated,” which has had serious repercussions on the nation’s financial transactions.

This parliamentary conference has served as a crucial space for discussion and call for action against unilateral sanctions that negatively impact the lives of millions of people around the world.

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Thousands of migrants without money, or people who lost their jobs due to the Covid-19 pandemic in Southeast Asia, are victims of forced recruitment by cybercriminal mafias under threats.

According to a report by the UN Human Rights Office, thousands of people are recruited by online criminal gangs who, taking advantage of their need for money, threaten families and drag them into perpetuating cybercrime.

It has been estimated, according to a reliable source, about 120,000 people in this situation in Burma, as well as about 100,000 in Cambodia. More cases are not ruled out in Laos, the Philippines and Thailand.

Migrants who do not have money for their subsistence and to attend to the needs of their families are the ones who are normally captured by these mafias and forced, under threats and inhumane treatment, to commit crimes on the Internet, particularly in illegal games, cryptocurrencies scams, fraudulent dating apps, among others.

In this sense, the UN High Commissioner, Volker Turk, considers that these people are victims, not criminals. He pleads for them to be treated that way, given that they are coerced into carrying out these jobs.

The mafias take great advantage of the people they hire by force, since they usually have a university education, speak other languages ​​or have knowledge of the Internet.

Beyond the policies of Southeast Asian countries to combat cybercrime, there are always vulnerabilities and sometimes international standards are not met. Therefore, the victims of this type of abuse can go unnoticed, in addition to being the ones who are normally arrested for online crimes.

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The president of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU), Duarte Pacheco, and his team arrived in Venezuela, this Monday, August 23, in order to hold various meetings with representatives of the national executive and representatives of the Venezuelan opposition in order to inquire about the socio-political reality of the country.

The delegation also includes the president of the Human Rights Committee of parliamentarians Nassirou Bako-Arifari, as well as Samuel Cogolati and Esther Anyakun Davinia, members of the Executive Committee.

During the visit, the parliamentarians also plan to hold a meeting with the directors of the National Electoral Council, the Moral Power and deputies of the National Assembly.

The National Government indicated that the representatives of the Inter-Parliamentary Union will meet “with the Venezuelan group before the UIP, in addition to the special commission for dialogue, peace and reconciliation of the National Assembly elected in 2020.” On the other hand, a meeting with Juan Guaidó and the Deputies of the Delegate Commission of the National Assembly elected in 2015 is also on the agenda.

Last April the Government of Nicolás Maduro extended an invitation to the parliamentary group to visit the country and “learn the truth about Venezuela (…), and learn about the work for peace and reconciliation that the new NA has undertaken,” indicated Jorge Rodríguez

However, in June, Delsa Solórzano stated, through his Twitter account, that the Government denied entry to an IPU commission that came to the country in order to verify “the violation of human rights of the parliamentarians elected in 2015 (…). Maduro fears human rights organizations and therefore denies the entry og IPU to Venezuela.”

According to what Solórzano pointed out at that time, the Inter-Parliamentary Union is investigating more than 140 complaints, among which stand out the “arbitrary detentions, torture and illegal disqualifications of which parliamentarians have been victims”.

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The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet, today demanded from governments the “immediate cessation” of espionage with technologies such as the Israeli spyware Pegasus “that violate Human Rights.”

“The use of Pegasus software to spy on journalists and human rights defenders among other public figures is extremely worrying,” Bachelet said in a statement, in which she denounced the use of this type of tool.

Likewise, she has called “extremely alarming” the information that accounts for the widespread use in different countries of the Pegasus software, created by the Israeli company NSO, and has pointed out that these revelations confirm “some of the worst fears” about improper and illegal use of surveillance technology to undermine people’s Human Rights.

These reports confirm the urgent need to better regulate the sale, transfer and use of surveillance technology and to ensure strict supervision and authorization. Without regulatory frameworks that comply with Human Rights, there are too many risks that these tools will be abused to intimidate critics and silence dissent, stressed the UN High Commissioner.

In this sense, Bachelet has also explained that the use of surveillance software has been associated with “arrests, intimidation and even murders of journalists and human rights defenders” and has lamented that the surveillance reports also make people self-censor “because of fear”.

“Journalists and defenders of fundamental guarantees play an indispensable role in our societies and when they are silenced we all suffer”, she has criticized in this regard. In this way, she has addressed the states to remind them that surveillance measures “are only justified in rigorously defined circumstances and with a legitimate objective that makes them necessary.”

In addition, she has stressed that states have a mandate to protect people from violations of the right to privacy by companies.

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Chen Deming, Ministry of Commerce of China, rejected on his website the sanctions by the United States Government against 23 Chinese companies for their alleged collaboration with the abuses against Muslim minorities in Xinjiang, defining them as a “serious violation of international trade standards.”

The US sanctions are “an irrational crackdown on Chinese companies” and he urged the United States to “correct its irregularities,” he points out in the statement released by the Chinese Ministry of Commerce. In addition, he stressed that the Asian country “will take the necessary measures to protect its rights and legitimate interests.”

As you will recall, last Friday the US Department of Commerce announced the inclusion of Chinese companies in its List of Entities, which includes a set of companies and organizations to which US companies cannot export or transfer goods.

According to the information released by the State Department, 14 of the sanctioned companies are accomplices “in Beijing’s campaign of repression, mass detention and surveillance of Uighurs, Kazakhs and other Muslim minorities in Xinjiang.” Five were included for ties with the Chinese military and four for doing business with companies that had already been sanctioned by the US Government.

The Chinese authorities consider that “the United States abuses export control, ignores the facts and uses so-called ‘human rights’ as an excuse”.

In recent years there have been complaints about the situation of some foreigners and other Muslim minorities, who “are being interned in guarded facilities.” However, Beijing denies that there are human rights violations in the region.

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