The Venezuelan Program of Education Action in Human Rights (Provea) was created in Caracas on October 15, 1988 as a non-governmental organization with emphasis on the so-called Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (DESC), without neglecting interdependence and comprehensiveness of the set of human rights.

Its founders are Ligia Bolívar, who had been working with Amnesty International; Dianorah Contramaestre, with experience in the communities of Christian base in the neighborhoods of Caracas and Raúl Cubas, arrested-disappeared by the Argentine dictatorship in the ESMA (School of Sub-officers of Mechanics of the Navy).

Provide legal education and support to vulnerable sectors, victims or potential victims of human rights violations; documents and investigates their situation and denounces the abuses of power and violators of human rights, articulating with other organizations and social and popular movements.

Through constancy and fidelity to the values ​​of independence, autonomy and the principles of human rights, Provea consolidated itself as an NGO with high credibility in large sectors of the country. Since its inception, promotes the humanistic and transformative content present in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, with the aim of contributing to the construction of a democratic society founded on pluralism, solidarity, participation and social and economic equality , without any type of discrimination.