Items tagged with human rights
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| Medical experts call for global drug decriminalisation [24.03.2016] | An international commission of medical experts is calling for global drug decriminalisation, arguing that current policies lead to violence, deaths a ... |
| Unravelling the human cost of global drug policy [13.03.2016] | The international drug control system has caused much greater damage than the substances it targets. Gross human rights violations have been committe ... |
| Striving for system-wide coherence [11.03.2016] | In April 2016, the General Assembly of the United Nations (UN) will convene its 30th Special Session (or ‘UNGASS’) – and the third to focus on the ‘w ... |
| Iran executed all adult men in one village for drug offences, official reveals [25.02.2016] | The entire adult male population of a village in southern Iran has been executed for drug offences, according to Iran’s vice-president for women and ... |
| Decriminalise drugs to meet users' right to good health, says UN official [09.12.2015] | All drug use should be decriminalised and possession made free from the threat of lengthy prison terms, the UN’s special rapporteur on the right to h ... |
| As UNGASS approaches, yet another devastating UN critique of the drug war is published [08.12.2015] | A significant positive outcome has already emerged from next year’s UN General Assembly Special Session (UNGASS) on drugs in the form of much more di ... |
| UN: Swedish drug rules violate human rights [07.11.2015] | Sweden's drug policies have come in for harsh criticism from the UN. Effective treatments against drug abuse, such as needle exchange programmes, are ... |
| Ruling in Mexico sets into motion legal marijuana [04.11.2015] | The Supreme Court opened the door to legalizing marijuana, delivering a pointed challenge to Mexico’s strict substance abuse laws and adding its weig ... |
| New UN think-tank report: What comes after the War on Drugs? [02.11.2015] | The UN's own thinktank, the United Nations University (UNU), published a report entitled What Comes After the War on Drugs? that argues that UNGASS 2 ... |
| World drug problem violates human rights in five key areas, says UN official [27.09.2015] | The global drug problem violates human rights in five key areas – the right to health, the rights relating to criminal justice and discrimination, th ... |
| Majority of Spaniards oppose new "gag law" [06.07.2015] | Three quarters of Spaniards oppose the country's new "gag law", which has brought in a series of measures opponents say hark back to the dark days of ... |
| The new drug warriors [01.05.2015] | The war on drugs is edging towards a truce. Half of Americans want to lift the ban on cannabis. America’s change of heart has led many to wonder if t ... |
| Chan and Sukumaran execution 'illegal', but Indonesia ignores Australia again [01.05.2015] | The execution of Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran was illegal under international law, but Australia's request that Indonesia submit to the judgment ... |
| Which countries have the death penalty for drug smuggling? [27.04.2015] | Indonesia executed eight convicted drug traffickers. The sentences have provoked outrage from the prisoners’ home countries, none of which hands down ... |
| Another UN agency savages the drug war [16.03.2015] | The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the UN agency charged with developing strategies to reduce global poverty, has strongly criticised c ... |
| On the death penalty for drugs [02.03.2015] | The Annual Report of the International Narcotics Control Board (INCB), released today, calls upon States that ‘continue to impose the death penalty f ... |
| Indonesia's executions: Drugs diplomacy in a diplomatic crisis? [25.02.2015] | All diplomatic efforts earlier this month to save Brazilian and Dutch citizens from execution in Indonesia failed. Both were executed by firing squad ... |
| The United Nations General Assembly Special Session on drugs in 2016 [16.02.2015] | In April 2016, representatives of the world’s nations will gather to evaluate drug policy in a United Nations General Assembly Special Session (UNGAS ... |
| The International Drug Control Regime and Access to Controlled Medicines [25.12.2014] | The World Health Organisation (WHO) estimates that some 5.5 billion people around the globe inhabit countries with low to non-existent access to cont ... |
| The 'Fifth Stage' of Drug Control [30.11.2014] | Writing in 1996, Norbert Gilmore noted that ‘little has been written about drug use and human rights. Human rights are rarely mentioned expressly in ... |
| Colombia, more than three decades of toxic sprayings. Enough! [26.09.2014] | It is unfortunate that 35 years after the first chemical spraying in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, we are still writing about aerial sprayings in ... |
| Cross-regional statement on Drugs and Human Rights General Debate [25.09.2014] | This is the first member states' crossregional statement on drugs and human rights in the human rights council. Download the Statement. |
| Former world leaders call for nations to decriminalize drug use and experiment with legalization [09.09.2014] | Drug use should be decriminalized and governments should experiment with drug legalization and regulation, a group of former world leaders argues in ... |
| IDPC response to the 2013 Annual Report of the International Narcotics Control Board [14.08.2014] | The publication of the International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) Report for 2013 took place in the context of major shifts in the drug policy land ... |
| Mexico legislators consider regulating marijuana to protect human rights [13.07.2014] | In Mexico, since 2006 a public security strategy has been implemented based on militarization, which has prioritized the use of force – including let ... |
| Global drug policy is still deadly and ineffective [02.06.2014] | If you actually read the treaties, while they do set firm limitations on the legal, "non-medical" or "non-scientific" sale of schedule drugs — limits ... |
| INCB speaks out against death penalty [05.03.2014] | UN’s International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) unprecedented condemnation of the use of death penalty for drug-related offences is welcome if long ... |
| Promoting Human Rights - Based Drug Policies in Latin America [27.12.2013] | "Latin American countries can take the lead in ensuring that national, regional, and ultimately international drug control policies are carried out i ... |
| Human rights and drug control: an irreconcilable contradiction? [15.10.2013] | This week both the UN Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND) in Vienna and the UN General Assembly 3rd Committee in New York discuss new drug control res ... |
| The Next Step in Drug Treatment [25.04.2013] | The mandatory-sentencing craze that drove up the prison population tenfold, pushing state corrections costs to bankrupting levels, was rooted in New ... |
| Denmark ends Iranian drug crime support [09.04.2013] | The Danish development minister, Christian Friis Bach (Radikale), has decided to cease providing financial support to a United Nations anti-drug prog ... |
| Drug policy reform is breaking through at the international level [24.03.2013] | Change is in the air ... But the pace could be quickened a bit. While the international policymaking body on drugs has long been stuck in neutral, th ... |
| An ugly truth in the war on drugs [11.03.2013] | This week, representatives from many nations will gather at the annual meeting of the United Nations Commission on Narcotic Drugs in Vienna to determ ... |
| Is the INCB dangerous to your health? [04.03.2013] | In what has become a chilling annual exercise, the UN's drug watchdog the International Narcotics Control Board released its annual report today. The ... |
| The unintended negative consequences of the 'war on drugs' [28.02.2013] | Criminalisation of drug users, excessive levels of imprisonment, and punitive sentencing practices, including mandatory sentencing, the death penalty ... |
| Mexico's disappeared [19.02.2013] | This 176-page report documents nearly 250 “disappearances” during the administration of former President Felipe Calderón, from December 2006 to Decem ... |
| Report: Mexico disappearances constitute 'crisis' [19.02.2013] | Human Rights Watch called Mexico's anti-drug offensive "disastrous" in the report Mexico's Disappeared: The Enduring Cost of a Crisis Ignored, that c ... |
| Call for end to anti-drug aid for regimes with death penalty [29.12.2012] | Human rights groups have urged the UK government to heed the recommendations of an influential parliamentary committee that has told the government t ... |
| The Death Penalty for Drug Offences [19.11.2012] | Executions for drug offences have escalated in countries such as Iran and Saudi Arabia against a trend towards abolition globally, reveals a new Harm ... |
| UK aid to Iran's war on drugs has led to rise in hangings, UN warns [27.10.2012] | Britain's funding of Iran's anti-drugs trafficking programmes has been called into question after a UN watchdog expressed alarm at a sharp rise in th ... |
| Governing The Global Drug Wars [23.10.2012] | Since 1909 the international community has worked to eradicate the abuse of narcotics. A century on, the efforts are widely acknowledged to have fail ... |
| How International Aid for Drug Enforcement Fuels Human Rights Abuses [02.10.2012] | It is increasingly clear that there is a fundamental lack of oversight of how international aid – provided by the US, Europe and the United Nations t ... |
| New report connects international aid for drug enforcement to gross human rights violations [20.06.2012] | Millions of dollars in international aid for drug enforcement is spent in countries with extremely poor human rights records resulting in serious abu ... |
| Partners in Crime [20.06.2012] | Millions of dollars in international aid for drug enforcement is spent in countries with extremely poor human rights records and with little or no ac ... |
| Mérida: continued support for a failed strategy [21.05.2012] | Some five years ago, after Mexico’s President Felipe Calderón declared a War on Drugs followed by a firm military crackdown on drug trafficking organ ... |
| When the UN Won't Condemn Torture You Know Something's Very Wrong [04.04.2012] | When the UN's drugs watchdog, the International Narcotics Control Board (INCB), was asked recently about its official position on torture carried out ... |
| INCB’s tortured logic [02.04.2012] | On several recent occasions, the International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) has refused to offer an opinion on sanctions that violate international ... |
| Narcotics watchdog turns blind eye to rights abuses [28.03.2012] | In a world where drug offences are punishable with the death penalty, torture or arbitrary detention, we must ask how far States can go to enforce th ... |
| Letter to the International Narcotics Control Board on Capital Punishment for Drug Offences [14.03.2012] | On several recent occasions, the International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) has refused to offer an opinion on sanctions that violate international ... |
| Commanding general confidence? [11.03.2012] | This note provides an overview of human rights and international law concerns raised by the 2011 Annual Report of the International Narcotics Control ... |
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