Humberto Prado is a Venezuelan lawyer and activist. He is the founder and served as director of the Venezuelan Observatory of Prisons (OVP).[1] In 2019, during the presidential crisis in Venezuela, he was appointed by Juan Guaidó as Presidential Commissioner for Human Rights.[2][3]
Venezuelan Prison Observatory
editIn September 2002, Humberto founded the Venezuelan Prison Observatory together with a team and with family savings, an organization dedicated to assisting people deprived of liberty and documenting cases of human rights violations within prison facilities. On several occasions Prado has requested precautionary measures before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) to preserve the fundamental rights of the prison population.[4]
In 2009 he received the human rights award given by the Canadian embassy for his work as a defender of the rights of those deprived of liberty in Venezuela, as well as for his research work in the search for knowledge of prison systems around the world.[5]
Presidential commissioner
editOn August 28, 2019, during the Venezuelan presidential crisis, he was appointed as presidential commissioner for human rights by the president in charge Juan Guaidó.[6][7]
References
edit- ^ "Venezuela - Ongoing smear campaign against Humberto Prado Sifontes". Front Line Defenders. 2016-10-28. Retrieved 2021-08-02.
- ^ EFE (2021-07-25). "Humberto Prado pide a la ONU pronunciamiento por persecuciones a la oposición". El Pitazo (in Spanish). Retrieved 2021-07-31.
- ^ julio, EFE25 de; 2021 - 07h45 (2021-07-25). "El grupo de Juan Guaidó pide a la ONU pronunciamiento por "persecuciones" a oposición". El Universo (in Spanish). Retrieved 2021-07-31.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - ^ "Humberto Prado". Defiendo DDHH (in Spanish). 2016-05-26. Retrieved 2021-08-02.
- ^ Canadá, Asuntos Globales (2013-10-16). "Información sobre ganadores ediciones anteriores". www.canadainternational.gc.ca. Retrieved 2021-08-02.
- ^ "Humberto Prado, Comisionado Presidencial de DDHH estrena cuenta oficial de Twitter". AlbertoNews - Periodismo sin censura (in Spanish). 2019-09-29. Retrieved 2021-08-02.
- ^ "Humberto Prado presentó informe sobre situación de DDHH en 2019". TalCual (in Spanish). 2020-07-20. Retrieved 2021-08-02.
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