The director for Latin America of Human Rights Watch (HRW), César Muñoz, said Friday that the government of Bolivian President Luis Arce «does not want international bodies» to report on the human rights situation in the country.
The Bolivian Foreign Ministry confirmed this Friday the departure from the country of the mission of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), although it has denied that it is an expulsion, as the opposition party Comunidad Ciudadana (CC) has claimed.
«By deciding not to renew the mandate of the OHCHR mission in Bolivia, it leaves Bolivians without a very important impartial entity in the country that monitors human rights,» Muñoz said on his Twitter profile.
In this sense, he explained that the mission had a fundamental task, such as supporting the reform of the justice system, monitoring the process opened against former president Jeanine Áñez or taking care of the rights of the LGBT community, prisoners, victims and other groups.
The former United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet announced in 2019 the dispatch of a commission to investigate human rights violations committed in the context of the political crisis.
The mission, which landed in Bolivia in 2020 after signing a one-year agreement that was extended until December 2022, stopped working in the country last week, a situation that, for the opposition CC, increases the lack of protection of the population.
Source: (EUROPA PRESS)
