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11.
Expresses further concern at the widespread lack of availability of and access
to vaccines, medicines and treatment, and at the deterioration of conditions in hospitals,
clinics and maternity clinics, which results in, inter alia, the re-emergence of previously
controlled and eliminated diseases, including vaccine-preventable diseases, and increased
risks of contracting HIV and other sexually transmitted infections;
12.
Urges the Venezuelan authorities to take all measures necessary to ensure the
availability and accessibility of food, water, essential medicines and health-care services to
all those in need, including comprehensive preventive health-care programmes, with
particular attention to children’s and maternal services, and urges the Venezuelan authorities
to accept all necessary humanitarian assistance, delivered in accordance with international
humanitarian principles;
13.
Strongly condemns discrimination based on political grounds in access to food
assistance and other social programmes against Venezuelans increasingly relying on them to
have access to minimum levels of income and food, and urges that all social programmes be
provided to all those in need in a transparent, non-politicized and non-discriminatory manner;
14.
Expresses grave concern at the disproportionate and differentiated impact of
the crisis in the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela on the human rights of women and girls,
the lack of comprehensive health-care services and the insufficient provision of underlying
determinants of health, including water and adequate nutrition, the deterioration of
immunization and preventative health programmes, and accounts of increased rates in
maternal mortality, adolescent pregnancy, malnutrition and preventable diseases;
15.
Urges the Venezuelan authorities to adopt appropriate measures to address
reported acts of violence and harassment, sexual violence against women and girls in
detention in the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, which includes accounts of physical,
sexual and verbal abuse, threats and intimidation, the sexual exploitation of women and girls
for food, protection and privileges, and the ill-treatment, torture and denial of rights of
women human rights defenders, nurses, teachers and civil servants, women political
prisoners and detainees in detention centres;
16.
Underlines with grave concern that the crisis in the Bolivarian Republic of
Venezuela also has a disproportionate and differentiated impact on the human rights of
indigenous peoples, particularly on their rights to an adequate standard of living, including
their rights to food and to health and on their collective rights as indigenous peoples,
particularly their rights to their traditional lands, territories and resources;
17.
Strongly condemns the violation of various individual and collective rights of
indigenous peoples, in particular in the Arco Minero del Orinoco region, including the
excessive use of force, extrajudicial killings, ill-treatment, forced displacement and violations
of their rights to maintain customs, traditional ways of life and a spiritual relationship with
their land;
18.
Deplores the obstacles that Venezuelans on the move face in the Bolivarian
Republic of Venezuela to obtain or legalize documentation, and the fact that those leaving or
re-entering the country are often victims of extortion and requisitions;
19.
Urges the international community to continue to provide and to scale up
support to enable host countries to respond to the growing needs of Venezuelans on the move,
including the particular needs of women, children, older persons, persons with disabilities
and indigenous peoples;
20.
Encourages relevant thematic special procedure mandate holders to pay
particular attention, within their respective mandates, to the situation of human rights in the
Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela;
21.
Encourages the Venezuelan authorities to cooperate with the above-mentioned
mandate holders, particularly in the context of the commitments made with the High
Commissioner to receive 10 special procedure mandate holders within the next two years, in
particular the Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances, the Special
Rapporteur on the independence of judges and lawyers, the Special Rapporteur on
extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention,
the Special Rapporteur on the right to food, the Special Rapporteur on the right of everyone
to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health, the Special
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