Countries: Venezuela
Variables: VOTE-DATA-2

"In elections held between 2014 and 2020, the electoral roll consisted mainly of women (51.22 per cent on average)" (16).

Countries: Venezuela
Variables: TRAFF-PRACTICE-1

"The Public Prosecution Service includes a Division for the Protection of Women which currently has: (a) 72 offices throughout the country, four of which have national coverage: (1) Two specializing in the investigation of femicides and offences against the sexual freedom of women (Nos. 64 and 47); (2) One with broad competence (No. 82); and (3) One focused on combating the sale of women (No. 95)" (7). "The Public Prosecution Service, the Ministry of People’s Power for Internal Relations, Justice and Peace, and the Ombudsman’s Office have scheduled various workshops to improve prevention, focus broad attention and ensure criminal investigation of the crime of trafficking in persons. The workshops are...more

Countries: Venezuela
Variables: TRAFF-LAW-1

"Ruling No. 91 of 15 March 2017: the Constitutional Division of the Supreme Court prohibited procedural concessions for persons guilty of 'flagrant sexual crimes', including the crime of persistent sexual violence, the crime of sexual intercourse with a particularly vulnerable victim, the crime of forced prostitution, the crime of sexual slavery, the crime of illicit trafficking in women, girls and adolescents, and the crime of selling women, girls and adolescents. Regarding trials of such crimes, the Division stated that, once the principle of presumption of innocence had been excluded by an unappealable judgment, the procedural concessions allowed by law could not be granted and no alternative sentencing would be allowed"...more

Countries: Venezuela
Variables: SEGI-PRACTICE-1

"The following agreements and arrangements have been adopted... (c) Gender training and awareness-raising for organs processing complaints. In 2020, the Supreme Court concluded an agreement for the National Experimental University for Security to provide training courses on this subject both for civil servants and serving police and for students" (6). "As far as training is concerned, in 2013 the Ministry of People’s Power for Women and Gender Equality launched the Argelia Laya Feminist National Centre for Feminist Training, which offers a variety of training programmes designed to eradicate social practices responsible for exclusion, discrimination, exploitation and violence against women. The Argelia Laya Feminist Foundation School of the South (FEMSUR) was...more

Countries: Venezuela
Variables: PRN-LAW-1

"Ruling No. 359 of 6 May 2014: the Supreme Court’s Constitutional Division ordered the newspaper Meridiano to remove any images with explicit or implicit sexual allusions or content from advertising in printed media openly available to children and adolescents that advertise sexual stimulants promoting services commercially linked to the exploitation of sex or prostitution. This ruling is applicable to all printed media" (4). "Ruling No. 884 of 3 November 2017: the Constitutional Division of the Supreme Court prohibited the Sociedad Mercantil El Heraldo and the Grupo Mercantil 6° Poder 60 C.A. from publishing any printed or digital copies of the weekly newspaper, including individual subscriptions, with images containing explicit or...more

Countries: Venezuela
Variables: EWCMS-PRACTICE-3

"In 2019, it also drafted the 'Guidelines for victims of gender violence in the Bolivarian National Armed Forces'" (10).

Countries: Venezuela
Variables: GP-DATA-1

"In 2020, following elections to individual posts in the Executive Branch at the state and municipal levels, 17 per cent of the elected Governors and 23 per cent of the elected Mayors were women. In the Executive Branch, more women are playing leadership roles in decision-making and occupying senior posts as Ministers, Deputy Ministers, presidents of institutions, directors and rectors of universities. The period between 2013 and 2020 saw the appointment of Delcy Rodriguez to the post of Executive Vice-President of the Republic in June 2018 and in October 2020 Carmen Meléndez was reappointed to the post of Minister of the Interior, Justice and Peace. In 2020, 33 per cent...more

Countries: Venezuela
Variables: GDI-DATA-1

"According to the 2019 Human Development Report of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), Venezuela had a Gender Development Index of 1.013 and was included in the high human development category of the Human Development Index as regards equality between women and men" (4).

Countries: Venezuela
Variables: EWCMS-LAW-1

"Between 2015 and 2019, the representation of women in the Bolivarian Armed Forces increased from 11 to 15 per cent, thanks to the policy encouraging the admission of women to the various military schools" (16).

Countries: Venezuela
Variables: ERBG-PRACTICE-4

"Between 2014 and 2020, women’s access to credit was expanded both by private and by public banks. Since 2017, at least 45 per cent of loans extended by public banks were reserved for female entrepreneurs. As a result of the policies adopted, women now form the majority of recipients of loans for small and medium-sized industries from public banks. The unilateral coercive measures have impacted credit, causing a decline in the absolute volume of loans that started in 1918 and mainly affected private banks" (27). Table 3, titled “Loans for men and women, by year: Private banks” shows that the number of women receiving loans from private banks increased from...more

Countries: Venezuela
Variables: LRW-PRACTICE-2, DV-PRACTICE-2

"The telephone hot line 0800-Mujeres (0800-6853737) provides legal advice and general information especially designed for female victims of violence. In the period from 2014 to 2018, 42,240 calls were received. In 2019 and 2020, the service was affected by serious damage to the national electrical grid caused by terrorist activities and the unilateral coercive measures made it impossible to obtain spare parts. The service managed to recover in November 2020" (8). "Between 2015 and 2020,180 persons (65 women, 61 girls and 54 boys) sought protection and safety in shelters of the Ministry of People’s Power for Women and Gender Equality. These confidential and secure shelters provide temporary accommodation, protection, care...more

Countries: Venezuela
Variables: DACH-PRACTICE-3

"For the whole country, women certified as disabled and registered with the National Council for Persons with Disabilities numbered 243,629 or 38.82 per cent of the total population. Of the total women registered, 90 per cent were older than 18 and 10 per cent were 17 years of age or less. Most of the women certified suffered from a neuromusculoskeletal disability (38.06 per cent) or from multiple disabilities (35.24 per cent). As to the causes of the disabilities, 62.89 per cent were acquired and 16.27 per cent were congenital, 19.44 per cent were genetic and 1.39 per cent were hereditary. These figures cover 99.99 per cent of all women in...more

Countries: Venezuela
Variables: DTCP-PRACTICE-1

"The period covered by this report saw the introduction of the new Penitentiary System in all women’s prisons, under the administration of the Ministry of People’s Power for the Penitentiary Service. The System encourages the social rehabilitation of female prisoners through comprehensive plans, projects and policies for them in areas including education, work, culture and sports. In 2020, there were 2,153 female prisoners, distributed between 16 prison facilities. The managerial, disciplinary and custodial staff of these facilities are all female and are kept separate from the men’s facilities. The centres have space to accommodate the number of female prisoners specified in the United Nations Rules for the Treatment of Women...more

Countries: Venezuela
Variables: ERBG-LAW-1

"Articles 343 and 344 of the Act on Work and Workers requires every workplace to have an initial education centre that includes a breastfeeding room or to pay the enrolment cost and monthly fees for workers’ children between three months and six years of age to attend an initial education centre" (18). "Between 2014 and 2020, the Labour Inspectorates assisted 101,384 female workers with applications for re-employment (56,941), complaints of deteriorating work conditions (5,283), transfers refused (1,951), individual complaints (30,202) and family welfare complaints (5,590). The Inspectorates were also involved in 1,417 cases brought by female domestic workers. In 2020, cases relating to job security in the context of the...more

Countries: Venezuela
Variables: ERBG-LAW-2

"On the subject of sexual harassment in the workplace, the Act on Precautions, Conditions and Work Environment requires employers to adopt the necessary measures to prevent any form of sexual harassment and to pursue a policy designed to eliminate harassment in the workplace (article 56). The Act on Women’s Right to a Life Free from Violence considers sexual harassment to be a form of violence against women and specifies consequences including compensation (article 63) for victims, and prison sentences and fines for perpetrators. The Act on Work and Workers defines sexual harassment and allows the victim to leave the workplace and the firm to dismiss the offender, provided that proof...more