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Items tagged with human rights

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International Centre on Human Rights and Drug Policy [01-01-20] Established in 2009, the International Centre on Human Rights and Drug Policy is dedicated to developing and promoting innovative and high quality l...
The Next Step in Drug Treatment [26-04-13] The mandatory-sentencing craze that drove up the prison population tenfold, pushing state corrections costs to bankrupting levels, was rooted in New Y...
Denmark ends Iranian drug crime support [09-04-13] The Danish development minister, Christian Friis Bach (Radikale), has decided to cease providing financial support to a United Nations anti-drug progr...
Drug policy reform is breaking through at the international level [25-03-13] 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 [11-03-13] This week, representatives from many nations will gather at the annual meeting of the United Nations Commission on Narcotic Drugs in Vienna to determi...
Is the INCB dangerous to your health? [05-03-13] In what has become a chilling annual exercise, the UN's drug watchdog the International Narcotics Control Board released its annual report today....
The unintended negative consequences of the 'war on drugs' [01-03-13] Criminalisation of drug users, excessive levels of imprisonment, and punitive sentencing practices, including mandatory sentencing, the death penalty ...
Mexico's disappeared [20-02-13] This 176-page report documents nearly 250 “disappearances” during the administration of former President Felipe Calderón, from December 2006 to Dece...
Report: Mexico disappearances constitute 'crisis' [20-02-13] Human Rights Watch called Mexico's anti-drug offensive "disastrous" in the report Mexico's Disappeared: The Enduring Cost of a Cri...
Call for end to anti-drug aid for regimes with death penalty [30-12-12] Human rights groups have urged the UK government to heed the recommendations of an influential parliamentary committee that has told the government ...
The Death Penalty for Drug Offences [20-11-12] 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 [28-10-12] Britain's funding of Iran's anti-drugs trafficking programmes has been called into question after a UN watchdog expressed alarm at a sharp r...
Governing The Global Drug Wars [23-10-12] Since 1909 the international community has worked to eradicate the abuse of narcotics. A century on, the efforts are widely acknowledged to have fa...
How International Aid for Drug Enforcement Fuels Human Rights Abuses [02-10-12] 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 to...
New report connects international aid for drug enforcement to gross human rights violations [21-06-12] Millions of dollars in international aid for drug enforcement is spent in countries with extremely poor human rights records resulting in serious abus...
Partners in Crime [21-06-12] Millions of dollars in international aid for drug enforcement is spent in countries with extremely poor human rights records and with little or no acc...
Mérida: continued support for a failed strategy [21-05-12] Some five years ago, after Mexico’s President Felipe Calderón declared a War on Drugs followed by a firm military crackdown on drug trafficking organi...
When the UN Won't Condemn Torture You Know Something's Very Wrong [04-04-12] When the UN's drugs watchdog, the International Narcotics Control Board (INCB), was asked recently about its official position on torture carried...
INCB’s Tortured Logic [03-04-12] 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 [28-03-12] 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...
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