L’OEA organise un débat sur « Les femme, la politique des drogues et l’incarcération sur le continent américain »

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L’OEA organise un débat sur « Les femme, la politique des drogues et l’incarcération sur le continent américain »

11 avril 2014

L’Organisation des Etats Américains a organisé une table ronde à Washington DC, où a été présenté le rapport de la Commission Interaméricaine des Femmes intitulé « Les femmes et la drogue sur le continent américain: un document de travail politique ».

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The Organization of American States (OAS) today hosted a Policy Roundtable on the topic “Women, Drug Policy and Incarceration in the Americas,” at the headquarters of the hemispheric institution in Washington DC, in which the report of the Inter-American Commission of Women (CIM) titled “Women and drugs in the Americas: a policy working paper” was presented.

The Executive Secretary of the CIM of the OAS, Carmen Moreno, highlighted in her presentation, among other aspects, that the female prison population has grown at a greater rate than the male population in Latin America, that the majority are imprisoned for drug related crimes, and that 80 percent are in preventative prison. “This is a critical indicator of the overload our justice systems are facing, caused in large part by the hemispheric drug problem,” said Ambassador Moreno.

“The tendency to penalize in a special and often disproportionate way crimes related to drugs has contributed to the significant increase in the number of women imprisoned in the region,” said the Executive Secretary of the CIM, and expressed her hope that, with mechanisms like the Roundtable, “we can move forward in addressing this issue, from a focus on human rights, gender equality, and sustainable development, particularly heading toward the Special OAS General Assembly which will be held this September in Guatemala to continue the debate over drugs and their impact in the Americas.”

The keynote presentation of the Roundtable was delivered by Gabriela Olivera, from the National Secretariat for Drugs of Uruguay, who spoke of the experiences of her country on the issue, the importance of alliances with civil society, and the study on the relationship between Uruguayan women and microtrafficking networks carried out by her office. Olivera explained that in her country “there is in the National Secretariat for Drugs a Secretariat for Gender that has as its aim the transversalization of the aspects and foci of gender in drug policies, above all in the practice in programs of prevention, treatment and reintegration.”

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Profils associés

  • International Drug Policy Consortium (IDPC)
  • Organization of American States

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