They found "positive" the first day to receive complaints about Venezuela – Telam

The government today considered it "very positive" on the first day so that Venezuelan citizens living in Argentina can report until the end of July that human rights violations have occurred in the country. Venezuela.

"The badessment of this first day is very positive." We respond to a specific request from President Mauricio Macri who asked us to be cautious, respectful and close to all Venezuelans, acting with the utmost restraint towards them, "said the secretary for human rights. Humans, Claudio Avruj, in statements to Telam.

Avruj spent all morning at the Migrant Reception Center, in the northern neighborhood of the city of Buenos Aires, where Venezuelans began arriving to provide confidential information and testimonials about the situation in their country of origin. 39; origin.

The campaign will continue until Saturday 27 and will continue between Monday 29 and Wednesday 31 July, between 10 and 20 July, ordered the resolution of the Minister of Justice, Germán Garavano.

In addition, the victim badistance hotline 149 has been made available. It will work all day to provide more detailed information about the operation. A dedicated victim badistance team at the Victim Crisis Center will work.

"We are receiving calls from 149 people who are afraid to come personally and who require personal attention, so our teams will arrange personal interviews at home or at the place of their choice in the country," Avruj said.

At the orientation center, 5 interdisciplinary teams have been set up and receive in strict confidence the testimony of Venezuelan citizens, with observers from civil society organizations.

According to official figures, 180,000 Venezuelans currently reside in Argentina and an estimated 400,000 people will arrive this year, as they continue to flee their country daily as a result of the humanitarian crisis.

Mr. Avruj indicated that after the days set for the campaign, a full report would be written with all the testimonies collected, which would be forwarded "without haste or fixed date" to the international organizations that are closely following the situation in Venezuela. .

In any case, the identity of those who need it will be reserved, in accordance with the standards of international organizations.

Among them, the report of the Argentine government will be sent to the International Criminal Court (ICC), the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights and the Lima Group, meeting Tuesday in Buenos Aires.

The Lima group, made up of 14 American countries, including Argentina, has decided to send to the ICC the report on the situation of human rights in Venezuela published this month by the And to promote "a broad investigation" of support for the United Kingdom Government. Nicolás Maduro for the governments and political organizations of the region.

The declaration of the meeting specifies that these violations "include extrajudicial executions, arbitrary detentions, enforced disappearances, acts of torture, repression and the denial of fundamental rights such as health, food and the environment". 39; education. "