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Extrajudicial killings, torture: What's in the U.S. State Department's human rights report on Venezuela

Nicolás Maduro, the President of Venezuela, faced scrutiny regarding the human rights situation. (Credit: Reuters / LEONARDO FERNANDEZ VILORIA)

The U.S. State Department released its annual Country Reports on Human Rights Practices, which analyze the situation in over 200 countries, including Venezuela, aiming to assess progress in individual, political, civil, and labor rights.

This edition outlines Russia's invasion of Ukraine, the civil war in Sudan and the Israel-Hamas war as just some of the major global human rights concerns, while it described progress made by Kenya, Japan, Estonia and Slovenia in advancing LGBTQI+ rights.

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