Bolivarian Government shows progress at the UN in the fight against racial discrimination

Published at: 06/08/2024 10:13 PM

The Deputy Minister of Internal Policy and Legal Security, Alana Zuloaga, participated in the 113th Session of the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination of the United Nations (UN), held in Geneva, Switzerland. There, he highlighted the advances of the Bolivarian Government in terms of racial equality for the population, regardless of the ethnic origins of each and every Venezuelan.

During her speech to the multilateral organization, Deputy Minister Zuloaga indicated that in 2014 the National Institute against Racial Discrimination (INCODIR) was created in Venezuela, with the purpose of guaranteeing the rights of both people of African descent and of the country's original populations, which benefited more than 631,227 people.

The Deputy Minister of the Ministry of People's Power for Internal Relations, Justice and Peace added that, through Incodir, the first National Consultation on Racial Discrimination was held, which included congresses, papers and study centers in different universities in the country to discuss this situation at a high level.

In the same way, he noted that at the National Experimental Security University (UNES), training plans were provided to officials of all bodies of the Public Security System, especially Criminal Investigation personnel, as well as to Civil Protection and Disaster Prevention.

He noted that this initiative is part of vertex one of the Great Quadrants of Peace Mission, which includes activities aimed at girls, boys and adolescents between the ages of 15 and 17. Through the “Drum Route”, more than 1,763 legal advisories were carried out on behalf of Afro-Venezuelans.

He also explained that in the country's prisons there are a low number of Afro-descendant and indigenous prisoners of liberty.

On the other hand, Deputy Minister Zuloaga asserted that of the 48,412 people deprived of their liberty distributed in 629 preventive detention centers and in more than 60 permanent detention centers in the country, only 7.1%, equivalent to 3,474 people, are of African descent.

He added that only 2.1%, equivalent to 977 people of the Wayuu ethnic group in the state of Zulia, are deprived of liberty, while of other indigenous groups in the nation, there is only one person deprived of liberty.

Likewise, Deputy Minister Zuloaga commented that the percentage of Afro-descendant and indigenous women who are part of the Venezuelan female prison population is only 3%, since, in general, women in our country lead spaces of mediation, peace and tranquility in Venezuela.

Mazo News Team