Expert expresses concern over law regulating NGOs

This Tuesday, the 2020 National Assembly (AN) postponed the discussion of the law that regulates the operations of Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) in the countrya topic strongly criticized by specialists.

Diosdado Cabello, deputy and first vice president of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela, announced this Monday the desire of the 2020 AN to approve the bill on NGOs, under which these They must register and explain where the financing they receive to operate comes from and where they invest the money..

However, the bill is viewed with concern.

The lawyer and university professor Fernando Fernandez explained that The new legal tool violates the right of association.

“The project is a military legislation that develops norms and dictates that non-profit organizations must register in a registry with characteristics similar to those of natural persons who enlist in what is called conscription or recruiting. In other words, it is a pure and simple registration, but with lethal consequences for civil society.”the expert warned.

According to Fernández, the law regulating NGOs is capable of acting in a manner “more serious than a violation of human rights.”

For the specialist, The legislation violates the provisions of the International Covenants on Civil and Political Rights and on Social, Economic and Cultural Rights..

“All of them would be militarized and nationalized for the purposes of the integral defense of the nation, and their members would become a kind of public officials.”hill.