Items tagged with human rights
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| State Department’s permissive reading of international drug treaties is ‘good sign’ for marijuana rescheduling, lawyer says [07.11.2023] | Recent comments by a U.S. State Department official to a United Nations (UN) drug commission are being seen by some legal experts as “a good sign” fo ... |
| ‘It will create a police state’: Dagga Party calls cannabis bill ‘fascist’ [23.05.2023] | The Cannabis for Private Purposes Bill, which aims to cater for those who use marijuana for medical and recreational purposes, has been met with fier ... |
| Singapore executes man for cannabis trafficking [25.04.2023] | Singapore executed a man accused of coordinating a cannabis delivery, despite pleas for clemency from his family and protests from activists. The Uni ... |
| Willful blindness: INCB can find nothing good to say on cannabis legalisation [14.03.2023] | In its report for 2022, the International Narcotics Control Board (INCB), the “independent, quasi-judicial expert body” that monitors the implementat ... |
| Is legalisation a human rights imperative? [01.03.2023] | Does the cannabis legalisation planned by the German government's traffic lights coalition violate European law and relevant UN agreements? While Bav ... |
| Towards a ‘human rights-based’ drug policy [27.07.2022] | In 2018, Malta became one of the first European countries to fully decriminalise cannabis for medicinal purposes; followed up by a broader reform to ... |
| War on drugs prolonged Colombia’s decades-long civil war, landmark report finds [29.06.2022] | The punitive, prohibitionist war on drugs helped prolong Colombia’s disastrous civil war, the country’s truth commission has found, in a landmark rep ... |
| PH drug war, rights situation back under global scrutiny [31.03.2022] | The Dangerous Drugs Board (DDB) has assailed the International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) for noting the “extrajudicial targeting” of persons sus ... |
| ICC suspends PH drug war probe, warned of Duterte ‘ruse’ [21.11.2021] | Human rights lawyers who accused President Rodrigo Duterte of committing crimes against humanity appealed to Chief Prosecutor Karim Khan of the Inter ... |
| Radical relook at drug policies puts human rights into equation [09.11.2021] | A “radically innovative” new analysis of global drug policies has laid bare the full impact repressive drug laws and their implementation have on mil ... |
| International court backs probe into Philippines' 'war on drugs' [15.09.2021] | Judges at the International Criminal Court approved a formal investigation into possible crimes against humanity allegedly committed under the leader ... |
| Statement on the UN Common Position and Task Team [15.04.2021] | Between 12 - 16 April 2021, the 64th session of the UN Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND) took place in Vienna. Here you can find the statement by th ... |
| House OKs bill that presumes drug suspects guilty until proven innocent [02.03.2021] | The House of Representatives passed a bill providing for legal presumption on who is considered an importer, financier, or protector of illegal drugs ... |
| ‘War on drugs’ blamed for deaths of at least 122 children in Philippines [30.06.2020] | At least 122 children, including a one-year-old, have been killed during President Rodrigo Duterte’s “war on drugs” in the Philippines, according to ... |
| Philippines police may have killed tens of thousands with 'near impunity' in drug war – UN [04.06.2020] | Tens of thousands of people may have been killed in the war on drugs since mid-2016 in the Philippines, amid “near impunity” for police and incitemen ... |
| ‘License to Kill’: Inside Rio’s record year of police killings [18.05.2020] | Officially, the police in Brazil are allowed to use lethal force only to confront an imminent threat. But an analysis of four dozen police killings i ... |
| The war on drugs is a war on human rights [15.05.2020] | One of the most appalling aspects of the war on drugs is that it can legitimise not just human rights abuses, but a complete rejection of human right ... |
| Cambodian official says human rights 'need to be put aside' in drug war [13.05.2020] | A Cambodian official defended an anti-drug campaign that has been decried as rife with abuses, saying human rights “need to be put aside” to fight dr ... |
| The ‘deja vú’ of aerial crop spraying in Colombia [29.02.2020] | At the end of 2019 the government of Iván Duque presented a draft decree to resume the spraying of drug crops used for illicit purposes. It argued th ... |
| Death squad disrupters: Filipina patrols in Pateros help keep drug killings at bay [17.02.2020] | Late each night, a dozen women chat and share a meal before hitting the narrow streets of a Manila suburb where a death squad once roamed. They are t ... |
| 'Shock and awe' has failed in Philippines drug war, enforcement chief says [07.02.2020] | Colonel Romeo Caramat, the head of drug enforcement for the Philippine National Police, said that ultra-violent approach to curbing illicit drugs had ... |
| Rio violence: Police killings reach record high in 2019 [23.01.2020] | The number of police killings in Rio de Janeiro reached a record high last year, officials say, amid controversial hardline measures to tackle violen ... |
| Bloody Philippine drug war fails to curb methamphetamine supply: VP [06.01.2020] | Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte’s war on drugs has only managed to curb the supply of methamphetamines by less than 1% of annual consumption, pr ... |
| Human Rights and drug policy [01.01.2020] | The Transnational Institute (TNI) has always believed in the need to find global answers to global problems, been a strong defender of multilateralis ... |
| International Centre on Human Rights and Drug Policy [01.01.2020] | Established in 2009, the International Centre on Human Rights and Drug Policy is dedicated to developing and promoting innovative and high quality le ... |
| The UN Drug Control Conventions [31.12.2019] | For more than ten years, TNI’s Drugs & Democracy programme has been studying the UN drug control conventions and the institutional architecture of th ... |
| UN Common Position on drug policy [01.12.2019] | In November 2018, the UN System CEB adopted the ‘UN system common position supporting the implementation of the international drug control policy thr ... |
| Regulating Drugs: Resolving Conflicts with the UN Drug Control Treaty System [29.11.2019] | There are good reasons to legally regulate drugs markets, rather than persist with efforts to ban all non-medical uses of psychoactive substances. Re ... |
| Nowhere to hide [30.10.2019] | Traditionally, the UN and governments have measured progress in drug policy in terms of flows and scale; principally the numbers of people arrested, ... |
| Philippines police chief and Duterte drug war enforcer resigns in meth scandal [14.10.2019] | The chief of police in the Philippines has stepped down after facing historical accusations in the Senate that he protected officers who had resold c ... |
| Malaysia's Government looks to decriminalise drug use in bid to stem disadvantage [14.09.2019] | The non-descript white van parked at the mosque entrance went mostly unnoticed. In conservative Malaysia, very few of the Muslim faithful on their wa ... |
| A global revolution in attitudes towards cannabis is under way [29.08.2019] | Uruguay paved the way when it legalised cannabis in 2013. But it is the reform in Canada, a G7 member, that has done most to heighten international t ... |
| Rodrigo Duterte's drug war is 'large-scale murdering enterprise' says Amnesty [08.07.2019] | The president of the Philippines Rodrigo Duterte is carrying out a “large-scale murdering enterprise” and should be investigated by the UN for crimes ... |
| The real failure of Southeast Asia’s drug wars [18.06.2019] | There may come a day when Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte is brought before the International Criminal Court to answer questions about his “war ... |
| Beijing says US legalization of marijuana is a 'threat to China' [17.06.2019] | Beijing's leading drug enforcement body has blamed the legalization of marijuana in Canada and parts of the United States for a spike in the amount o ... |
| ‘They have free rein’: Rio residents fear police violence under far-right rule [17.05.2019] | During campaigning last year, Rio’s new, far-right governor, Wilson Witzel, promised a “slaughter” of gun-toting drug gangsters using helicopters and ... |
| Sri Lanka president uses Easter attacks to fuel Duterte-inspired drug war [01.05.2019] | For Sri Lankan president Maithripala Sirisena, the War on Drugs and the War on Terror go hand-in-hand. And the Easter attacks that rocked the capital ... |
| The campaign for a 'drug-free world' is costing lives [20.03.2019] | Drug control efforts across the world are a threat to human dignity and the right to life. The first problem lies with the founding aspiration of the ... |
| Major UN report condemns punitive drugs policies [15.03.2019] | A new report from the United Nations System Coordination Task Team describes punitive drug policies as “ineffective in reducing drug trafficking or i ... |
| How Duterte’s exaggerations worsened the Philippines’ drug problem [28.02.2019] | We’re nearing the midpoint of the Duterte administration, yet we’re nowhere near solving the Philippines' drug problem. By all accounts, things even ... |
| Drug policy in India: Key developments since the UNGASS 2016 [20.02.2019] | This paper outlines the key drug policy developments in India since the UNGASS Outcome Document was adopted in 2016, which highlights health and huma ... |
| From the Philippines to Indonesia and Afghanistan, Asia’s brutal drug policies have failed [20.02.2019] | The so-called “war on drugs” has persisted without an honest assessment by governments of its effectiveness, nor its impacts, despite UN reports show ... |
| Rodrigo Duterte: Philippines president suggests deadly war on drug dealers will get even ‘bloodier’ [20.02.2019] | Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte warned his signature anti-narcotics campaign will be even harsher in the future, signalling no let-up in a blood ... |
| Egypt approves death penalty for drug dealers [31.01.2019] | Egypt’s cabinet has approved a draft law that would see drug dealers sentenced to death. The law was part of a broader bill to combat the spread of n ... |
| Duterte's Philippines drug war death toll rises above 5,000 [19.12.2018] | Derrick Carreon, a spokesman for the Philippine drug enforcement agency (PDEA), said that, according to official figures, between July 2016 and the e ... |
| Time for a truce in Asia’s war on drugs [03.11.2018] | Global attitudes on narcotic drugs are changing, but the shift has come too late for those caught up in Asia’s past decade of misguided and often let ... |
| Connecting the dots... [26.10.2018] | How can we resolve the tensions between current drug control policies and states’ human rights obligations? The international human rights framework ... |
| Taking stock of a decade of failed drug policies [22.10.2018] | Ten years ago, UN member states set themselves a target ‘to eliminate or reduce significantly and measurably’ the illicit cultivation, production, tr ... |
| Report says the UN's global 'war on drugs' has been a failure [22.10.2018] | The United Nations' drug strategy of the past 10 years has been a failure, according to a major report by the International Drug Policy Consortium (I ... |
| Taking stock: A decade of drug policy [22.10.2018] | ‘Taking stock: A decade of drug policy’ evaluates the impacts of drug policies implemented across the world over the past decade, using data from the ... |
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