Items tagged with brazil
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| Brazil [31.12.2019] | Overview of drug laws and legislative trends in Brazil. Trend Brazil is debating reform of current drug legislation. Changes to the Criminal Code are ... |
| Comparing models of drug decriminalisation [31.12.2019] | Decriminalisation refers to the repeal of laws and policies that define drug use and/or the possession of drugs for personal use as a criminal offenc ... |
| ‘They came to kill.’ Almost 5 die daily at hands of Rio police [26.05.2019] | Shooting from helicopters, armored personnel carriers or at close range, police officers in Rio de Janeiro have gunned down 558 people during the fir ... |
| ‘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 ... |
| Medicinal cannabis policies and practices around the world [24.04.2018] | Although cannabis remains a prohibited substance worldwide, in recent decades a series of political, legislative and judicial processes in various pa ... |
| Unfazed by Brazil's army, Rio drug gangs willing to wait out occupation [24.04.2018] | Leaders of Rio de Janeiro's heavily armed drug gangs agree on at least one thing with the head of Brazil's army: An ongoing military intervention can ... |
| Police probe of Brazilian marijuana researcher sparks protests [08.03.2018] | A police investigation targeting Brazil’s most prominent marijuana researcher has ignited a wave of protest among scientists. They say that the move ... |
| Inside Crackland: the open-air drug market that São Paulo just can’t kick [27.11.2017] | The brazen drug scene of Cracolândia is unlike nearly anything in any city in the world – hundreds and sometimes thousands of addicts, congregating o ... |
| Inside Paraguay's illegal cannabis plantations [25.11.2017] | Eighty percent of cannabis produced in Paraguay is smuggled to Brazil, according to data from Paraguay's National Anti-Drug Secretariat (SENAD). Thre ... |
| Brazil must legalise drugs – its existing policy just destroys lives [15.11.2017] | The war raging in Rocinha, Latin America’s largest favela, has already been lost. Rooted in a dispute between gangs for control of drug trafficking, ... |
| What LatAm cities can learn from the failures of Brazil's UPP policing model [01.08.2017] | Community policing has become the go-to security strategy in the Americas. But as the case of the Rio de Janeiro's "pacification" policing experiment ... |
| Death toll mounts in Rio de Janeiro as police lose control of the city – and of themselves [17.07.2017] | Even in Brazil, where homicides are really common, Rio de Janeiro’s crime rate is stunning. It is now impossible not to notice that the city’s Police ... |
| Why João Doria’s war on drugs is doomed [12.07.2017] | When São Paulo Mayor João Doria set out to fulfil a campaign promise and rid the city of its cracolândia (crackland), an area that was home to a grou ... |
| Wrecking to ‘revitalise’: São Paulo expels drug users and razes buildings, claiming public safety [16.06.2017] | On May 21, 500 civil and military police descended on the downtown neighbourhood where, since the late 1990s, hundreds to thousands of crack-cocaine ... |
| Brazil Supreme Court judge calls for drugs legalisation to beat gangs [11.02.2017] | A Brazilian Supreme Court justice called for the legalization of marijuana and even cocaine to undo the growing power of drug gangs behind a wave of ... |
| São Paulo’s drug policies are working – will the new mayor kill them? [20.10.2016] | A harm-reduction approach, De Braços Abertos (“With Open Arms”), to homeless crack use in São Paulo’s city centre hangs in the balance. For over two ... |
| Cannabis in Latin America and the Caribbean [15.09.2016] | Cannabis (or marihuana) is one of the most widely consumed psychoactive substances in the world. According to the United Nations World Drug Report, 1 ... |
| Ten years of drug policy failure in Brazil [27.08.2016] | Ten years ago this week, Brazil passed a law intended to distinguish dangerous drug traffickers from simple drug users. By replacing jail sentences f ... |
| Beyond Olympic glow, a vicious drug war rages in Rio [10.08.2016] | In the shadow of the Olympics, a slow-burning war between drug gangs and the nation’s security forces is taking place. As the casualties mount in the ... |
| What can be learned from Brazil’s “pacification” police model? [10.03.2016] | When national and local public safety personnel in Latin America want to turn away from “mano dura” approaches to the problem of alarmingly high rate ... |
| Latin America’s crackdown on drugs defies its progressive rhetoric [12.11.2015] | “We were having dinner—my daughter, grandchild, and me,” says Ramona, a 67-year-old Mexican woman who is serving a sentence of four-and-a-half years ... |
| People deprived of their liberty for drug offenses: The social costs of drug policy [02.11.2015] | The Research Consortium on Drugs and the Law (Colectivo de Estudios Drogas y Derecho, CEDD) released a series of new studies showing that despite the ... |
| Landmark case in Brazil to test hard-line 'war on drugs' [21.08.2015] | Brazil’s Supreme Court began hearing a landmark drug case that could change how drug users are punished. Conviction as a "user" in Brazil leads to a ... |
| Brazil Supreme Court debates decriminalization of drugs [18.08.2015] | Brazil's Supreme Court began debating a drug case that could lead to the decriminalization of possession for personal use in the South American count ... |
| The interplay between drug-use behaviors, settings, and access to care [14.08.2015] | Despite the growing attention surrounding crack cocaine use in Brazil, little is understood about crack users’ histories, use patterns and the interp ... |
| Case of prisoner caught with 3 grams of marijuana guides definition of drug possession in Brazil [11.08.2015] | A marijuana case from July 2009 inside the provisional detention center of Diadema (SP) will guide the STF's (Supreme Court) verdict which will decid ... |
| Brazil may decriminalize drug possession [10.08.2015] | Brazil can match to other countries in South America that decriminalized the illegal drugs possession and show more tolerance for the consumption and ... |
| Drug policy and incarceration in São Paulo, Brazil [14.06.2015] | This briefing paper analyses the impact of drug policy on incarceration in São Paulo (Brazil), based on information collected among 1,040 people caug ... |
| More South America teens using cocaine: Report [04.05.2015] | The Organization of American States' (OAS) latest drug consumption report highlights shifting trends in drug use among youths in the Western Hemisphe ... |
| Why is Rio de Janeiro so dangerous? [18.02.2015] | While Brazil has the dubious honor of having the highest homicide rate in the world – with 56,337 killings reported in 2013 – Rio has the most number ... |
| Is São Paulo's drug treatment program working? [21.01.2015] | Authorities say crack use has dropped 80 percent in São Paulo's notorious "Crackland" district since the implementation of With Open Arms ("De Braços ... |
| Fixing a broken system [28.12.2014] | Despite efforts by governments in Latin America, illicit drugs continue to provide one of the largest incomes for criminal organizations, enabling th ... |
| Controversial São Paulo project offers jobs to crack addicts in Cracolândia [28.10.2014] | On a mild winter morning in São Paulo, two dozen people pick up brooms and rubbish bins from a warehouse. They wear blue jumpsuits with a De Braços A ... |
| Brazil discusses medical cannabis at international symposium [17.07.2014] | The IV Symposium on Medicinal Cannabis in Brazil focused on patients who need treatment via medicinal cannabis and its components. Today, these patie ... |
| In Search of Rights [09.07.2014] | The Research Consortium on Drugs and the Law (Colectivo de Estudios Drogas y Derecho, CEDD) has published a new study that assesses state responses t ... |
| Reimagining Drug Policy in the Americas [27.06.2014] | Latin America is now at the vanguard of international efforts to promote drug policy reform: Bolivia has rewritten its constitution to recognize the ... |
| Crack cocaine is king in Brazil: What Sao Paulo is doing about it [25.04.2014] | São Paulo's Cracolândia has been here for 15 years. Its population hovered around 1,500. The city recently took over a collection of flophouses aroun ... |
| Do falling murders in Rio mean success for Brazil's UPPs? [18.12.2013] | Homicides have fallen 65 percent in the Rio de Janeiro favelas where Police Pacification Units have been installed during four years of the flagship ... |
| Open letter to Ministers Responsible for Public Security in the Americas [25.11.2013] | We, the undersigned human rights organizations, address you on this Fourth Meeting of Ministers Responsible for Public Security (MISPA) to follow up ... |
| Why do Brazilian police kill? [20.11.2013] | An average of five people were killed by police every day in Brazil last year, according to an annual security report, revealing an entrenched cultur ... |
| Whither Rio de Janeiro’s Police Pacification Units? [18.11.2013] | Rio de Janeiro’s Pacification Police Units (UPP) are celebrating their fifth year in 2013. They do so with generally positive approval ratings from t ... |
| Crack cocaine users: New data from Brazil [15.10.2013] | Last September, the Brazilian Ministries of Health and Justice presented data of two key surveys – “Estimated number of crack and similar drug users ... |
| Rio police charged over torture and death of missing favela man [02.10.2013] | Ten police in Rio de Janeiro have been charged with the torture and killing of a resident of the city's biggest favela in a case that has highlighted ... |
| Brazil state launches crack rehabilitation program [08.05.2013] | Sao Paulo State expanded its attack on crack cocaine by unveiling a program that will provide about $650 a month in subsidies for the rehabilitation ... |
| Cracolândia: the crack capital of Brazil where addicts are forced to seek help [08.05.2013] | With Brazil gripped by a crack epidemic, the authorities have launched a series of controversial initiatives. Since the start of last year, São Paulo ... |
| Cannabis to substitute crack [22.04.2013] | The mayor of Bogota has recently proposed a pilot scheme with crack cocaine addicts to explore the substitution of crack made of cocaine base paste ( ... |
| Drugs in Brazil: Cracking up [05.04.2013] | São Paulo’s Cracolândia was Brazil’s first and is still its biggest. It is home to 2,000 addicts. But most Brazilian cities now have similar district ... |
| UN concerned by arbitrary arrests in Brazil [27.03.2013] | The United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention voiced concern about the rising number of arbitrary arrests in Brazil, which has one of the h ... |
| Forced treatment for Brazil crack addicts [25.02.2013] | The city of Rio de Janeiro has begun a program of involuntary hospitalization for crack users, one month after Brazil’s biggest city São Paulo began ... |
| Anti-Crack Efforts Miss Targets: Daily [14.01.2013] | The government’s campaign to curb crack cocaine use that was launched late last year is failing to deliver on its targets, reports O Globo. As of the ... |
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