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National Assembly Venezuela approved unanimously this Thursday Law on Inspections, Regularization, efficiency and financing NGOs and public organizations which provides dissolution judicial from these groups who violate the rules.
During the session, the Legislative Assembly agreed to include in the text, at the request of Deputy Diosdado Cabello, a ban on NGOs receiving donations to finance “terrorism,” since, he assured, there are organizations that receive funds and then sponsor “guarimbas(furious protests).
“These NGOs receive funds, and we see that they finance guarimbas, they finance terrorist acts on the territory of the country, and this will serve to stop and limit this possibility.”
Under the new law, NGOs are prohibited from receiving financial donations intended for political organizations or making financial donations to such organizations, as well as from promoting “fascism, intolerance or hatred.”
Likewise, it establishes as grounds for the dissolution of these associations the failure to comply with these prohibitions declared by judicial decision, as well as the failure to pay any fine imposed “in accordance with this Act, after the available judicial remedies have been exhausted.”
The text states that courts of first instance in civil cases will be competent to grant consent to the “dissolution of a non-profit public organization,” which “must be guaranteed the right to protection and due process.”
By law, NGOs must notify “funding or donations” they receive to “ensure the legitimacy of the funds” and must declare “donations received with full identification of the donors, indicating whether they are national or foreign,” whether occasional or regular.
On the other hand, according to the text, the executive power is responsible for “monitoring and controlling compliance” with the “obligations and prohibitions” established in the new legislation, for which, among other measures, it will implement and evaluate mechanisms that serve these purposes.
The National Assembly has resumed discussion of the law three months after the last debate on the issue in May last year, despite warnings from numerous NGOs that it would “crush civic space and the right to association.”
The Venezuelan National Assembly unanimously approved this Thursday the Law on Supervision, Regularization, Operation and Financing of NGOs and Social Organizations, which provides for the judicial dissolution of these groups that violate the rules.
On Tuesday, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk called on the Venezuelan government to reject the legislation, as well as a bill to regulate social media, because of the negative impact they would have on human rights and democracy.
“Ultimately, we want to suppress NGOs with this bill, which joins the post-July 28 repressive wave and seeks to finally close down civic space,” said lawyer Ali Daniels, co-director of Access to Justice, a civic association that monitors the legal system.
This is worrying “because of the stigmatizing discourse used, which links the actions of NGOs and other organizations to acting as ‘cover for terrorism’; and the spread of ‘expressions of social hatred and fascist ideas’,” Gina Romero, the UN special rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association, said this week.
Likewise, Jorge Alejandro Rodríguez Moreno, a deputy in exile, expressed his opposition to the approved law and noted that it represents a “serious attack” on the fundamental freedoms and autonomy of Venezuelan civil society.
“NGOs and non-profit public organizations have become an important pillar in protecting human rights, providing humanitarian assistance and promoting sustainable development in the country in the midst of one of the most devastating crises in our history.
“However, the aim of implementing this law is to subject these organisations to excessive state control, limiting their ability to act independently and for the benefit of the most vulnerable communities.” (EFE and Reuters)
Source: Aristegui Noticias
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