International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights | International Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Racism | Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities | Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination against Women | Convention on the Rights of the Child | International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of their Families | Constituent Agreement of the Development Fund for Indigenous Peoples in Latin America and the Caribbean |
10 May 1978 | 10 October 1967 | 24 September 2013 | 2 May 1983 | 13 September 1990 | 4 October 2011 | 13 May 2002 |
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Social Housing |
Work and Social Security |
Public Health |
Public Education |
Social Development |
Children and Adolescents |
Youth/Young Adults |
Women |
Older Persons |
Persons with Disabilities |
Afrodecendants and Indigenous Peoples |
Migrants |
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Children and Adolescents |
Youth/Young Adults |
Older Persons |
Women |
Peoples with Disabilites |
Afrodescendants and Indigenous Peoples |
Migrants |
Public Education |
Work and Social Security |
Social Housing |
Public Health |
Social Development |
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Legal Instrument | Ley orgánica para la protección de niños, niñas y adolescentes | Ley Nacional de la Juventud (Ley núm. 37404) | Ley de Serviciós Sociales al adulto Mayr | Ley de Igualdad de Oportunidades para la Mujer | Ley para Personas con Discapacidad | Decreto de 2005 - Comisión Presidencial para la Prevención y Eliminación de todas las Formas de Discriminación Racial y otras Distinciones en el Sistema Educativo Venezolano. | Ley Nº 37944, "Ley de Extranjería y Migración" (2004) | Ley Orgánica de Educación | Ley Orgánica del Trabajo, los Trabajadores y Trabajadoras | Ley del Régimen Prestacional de Vivienda y Hábitat | Ley Orgánica del Sistema Nacional de Salud | n.d. |
Law | Law | Law | Law | Law | Law | Law | Law | Law | Law | Law |
Country | Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) |
Main authority | Sectorial Vicepresidency for Social and Territorial Socialism |
Year of creation | 2019 |
Coordinating authority | Sectorial Vice-President for Social and Territorial Socialism |
Members | Ministries with responsibility in the areas of habitat and housing, communes, health, indigenous peoples, women and gender equality, youth and sports, social labor processes, science and technology, education, and higher education. |
Country | Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) |
Main authority | People's Ministry for Communes and Social Movements |
Year of creation | 2013 |
Mission | To implement social policies that promote the democratic exercise and vitality, in terms of promotion, assistance and integral participative social development, through committees, plans, programs and projects of the social protection system. This is based on the integrality not only of care for the affected or social group injured in extreme poverty or maximum social exclusion, but also to the social context surrounding the affected or vulnerable population at possible risk. |
Incumbent | Ángel Prado (2024) |
Population segment | Children and Adolescents |
Youth/Young Adults |
Older Persons |
Persons with Disabilities |
Women |
Migrants |
Main protection mechanism | Ministerio del Poder Popular a través del Instituto Autónomo Consejo Nacional de Derechos de Niños, Niñas y Adolescentes | Instituto Nacional del Poder Popular de la Juventud | Consejo Presidencial de los Adultos Mayores de Venezuela | Consejo Nacional para las Personas con Discapacidad (CONAPDIS) | Ministerio del Poder Popular para la Mujer y la Igualdad de Genero | Comisión Nacional de Migración |
Legal Instrument | Ley Orgánica para la Protección del Niño y del Adolescente (LOPNA) (2000) | Ley Nacional de la Juventud (Ley núm. 37404) | Ley de Servicios Sociales al Adulto y Adulta Mayor | Ley para las personas con discapacidad | Ley Nº 37944, "Ley de Extranjería y Migración" (2004) |
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Unique Registry of Participants | Sistema Integrado de Administración Financiera /b | Sectoral Plan for Social Development | Transparence - system for accessing public information from the State | Integrated Social Information System |
Evaluation mechanisms for social programs |
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