Access to Public Information Mapping – Venezuela

The Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (UN Human Rights) is the leading UN entity on human rights. The Office represent the world's commitment to the promotion and protection of the full range of human rights and freedoms set out in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Office have a unique role to: - Promote and protect all human rights: We speak out objectively in the face of human rights violations and help elaborate the standards that are used to evaluate human rights progress worldwide. - Help empower people: Our research, education, and advocacy activities, contributes to the increased awareness and engagement by the international community and the public on human rights issues. This means thousands of people in all regions of the world are empowered to claim their rights. - Assist Governments: Through our field presences, we help prevent abuses and contribute to defusing situations that could lead to conflict. Our monitoring and analysis feeds sensitive decision-making and development programming. We also provide capacity-building and legal advice to thousands, supporting the development and judicious enactment of laws and policies the world around. - Inject a human rights perspective into all UN programmes: We mainstream human rights into all UN programmes to ensure that peace and security, development, and human rights - the three pillars of the UN - are interlinked and mutually reinforced. In carrying out its mission, UN Human Rights: - Gives priority to addressing the most pressing human rights violations, both acute and chronic, particularly those that put life in imminent peril - Focuses attention on those who are at risk and vulnerable on multiple fronts - Pays equal attention to the realization of civil, cultural, economic, political, and social rights, including the right to development - Measures the impact of its work through the substantive benefit that is accrued, through it, to individuals around the world te

The OHCHR is the UN’s lead entity on human rights, promoting and protecting the full range of rights in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. It works to set global human rights standards, raise awareness, empower people to claim their rights, support governments in preventing abuses, and integrate a human rights perspective across all UN programmes. Since 2019, the Office has been operating in Venezuela, providing independent assessments of the human rights situation, monitoring and analyzing trends, integrating human rights and gender equality into UN programming, cooperating with civil society, engaging with authorities, and reporting to the Human Rights Council and the High Commissioner. Access to public information is essential for transparency, accountability, and the protection of rights. In Venezuela, limited availability and quality of public information hinders rights monitoring and evidence-based engagement with institutions. This online assignment strengthens OHCHR’s technical assistance by building a repository that maps available public information, identifies gaps across sectors, and incorporates gender and vulnerability considerations. The assignment is fully remote and promotes inclusive and collaborative participation.

Online volunteers will collaboratively contribute to the systematization of publicly available information related to access to public information in Venezuela, with a human rights-based approach. The assignment consists of the development of one structured repository that organizes existing public information using agreed criteria stablished in a dialogue with OHCHR team. Activities will include: - Identifying publicly available information produced by Venezuelan public sector institutions related to access to public information. - Collecting and systematizing information using standardized categories, such as responsible institution, sector, type of information, date of publication, format, and level of accessibility. - Organizing information according to priority sectors relevant to human rights, to be defined in coordination with the OACNUDH team. - Applying a human rights-based approach, including consideration of transparency, accountability, participation, non-discrimination, and gender equality. - Ensuring that all sources used are open, public, and do not involve confidential or sensitive information. The sole deliverable is a structured, user-friendly repository that provides an overview of the situation of access to public information in prioritized sectors in Venezuela, suitable for use in technical assistance and analytical work.