Venezuelan Vice-President Delcy Rodríguez meets with UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk in Geneva. The increasing use of unilateral sanctions has drawn scrutiny from human rights experts, highlighting their disproportionate impact on women, children and other vulnerable groups. Douhan concluded that unilateral sanctions against Venezuela are politically motivated and undermine the most fundamental human rights. Venezuela has faced criticism from UN bodies over alleged human rights violations, most recently from the UN Human Rights Council’s Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela. However, local Venezuelan human rights organizations lambasted the report, citing its “unreliable” methodology that hinged on unverifiable anonymous interviews and the lack of in-country presence of the investigators.