La guerre brutale contre la drogue du président des Philippines, Rodrigo Duterte, risque de s’étendre aux pays voisins.

Indonesian President Joko Widodo, following in the bloody footsteps of the Philippines’ Rodrigo Duterte, has issued a “shoot-on-sight” policy for drug suspects. The hardline policy comes amid a sudden media blitz about the drug “state of emergency” in the archipelago nation. Amnesty International says it believes at least 60 drug suspects (including at least eight foreigners) have been killed by Indonesian police so far this year—compared with just 18 in all of 2016.

In late July, Widodo said during a speech in Jakarta: “Be firm, especially to foreign drug dealers who enter the country and resist arrest. Enough, just shoot them. Be merciless.”

Given the massive bloodletting such rhetoric has led to in the Philippines, this sparked outcry from human rights groups.

“This shocking escalation in unlawful killings by the police sounds serious alarm bells,” said Usman Hamid, director of Amnesty International Indonesia. “While Indonesian authorities have a duty to respond to increasing rates of drug use in the country, shooting people on sight is never a solution.”

“It is deeply worrying that foreigners appear to be targeted by the authorities. This could point to a deliberate policy to scapegoat non-Indonesians,” Hamid added.

L’Indonésie lance une politique de « tirer pour tuer » à l’encontre des personnes suspectées d’avoir commis des infractions liées aux drogues.

Les saisies de cannabis ont augmenté l’année dernière, avec près de 600'000 personnes arrêtées pour de la possession, un nombre impressionnant qui coûte des milliards de dollars aux contribuables.

Marijuana busts increased last year, with nearly 600,000 people being arrested on a possession charge—a staggering number that costs taxpayers billions of dollars even as the vast majority of Americans support legalization of the drug.

The new arrest data, released Monday by the FBI, comes at a time when nearly 30 states allow the drug for medical use and eight have legalized it recreationally.

“It’s really shocking in this era that these numbers are so high,” said Maria McFarland Sánchez-Moreno, executive director of Drug Policy Alliance. “It really makes you question why law enforcement is wasting resources and locking people up for personal use of marijuana.”

Aux États-Unis, les arrestations liées au cannabis ont augmenté l’année dernière – et vous payez des millions pour cela

Entre 6 et 10 zones dépendant d’autorités locales seront soumises à examen pour cette politique expérimentale

The new cabinet is to sanction experiments with legal marijuana production which would then be sold in cannabis cafes, RTL news said at the weekend.

Details are still sketchy but sources told the broadcaster between six and 10 local authority areas will be singled out for the experiment, which will lead to council-licenced growers producing marijuana for sale in their own locality. Breda and Eindhoven are among the cities which have already come forward.

While officials turn a blind eye to the sale of small amounts of marijuana for personal use, how the drug ends up in licenced coffee shops remains a grey area. Dozens of local authorities have for years argued for licenced production to remove drugs gangs from the entire chain.

The local authorities association VNG also recommended regulated production in 2015.

The VVD and CDA had always been against experimenting with licenced growing, but last year the VVD’s annual conference voted in favour of experimentation and in February, parliament voted in favour of a D66 plan for official regulation.

Research by Radboud University in 2015 said legalising cannabis production would have benefits for public health and human rights.

Le nouveau gouvernement néerlandais sur le point de lancer des essais de production régulée de cannabis

Cette décision tombe à la suite d’une pétition à grande échelle lancée par HOPS, une ONG plaidant pour la réduction des risques et la prévention du VIH.

On 5 September, the recently elected government of the Republic of Macedonia ordered the Ministry of Health to allocate 103 million Macedonian denars (approximately € 1,674,000) within the National HIV Program for 2018 to (a) ensure continuous access to antiretroviral (ARV) treatment for HIV-positive people; and (b) support the implementation of HIV prevention programs among key affected populations (KAPs) such as men who have sex with men (MSM), persons who inject drugs (PWID) and sex workers (SW). This amount is nearly four times bigger than the amount that had been budgeted for 2018 by the previous government. Local activists consider this development to be a very important step in ensuring the sustainability of HIV services in Macedonia.

According to Arben Fetai, Senior E.U. Policy Advisor for Stop AIDS Alliance, one of the key factors contributing to this achievement was the personal commitment of the new Minister of Health, Arben Taravari, who has introduced multiple initiatives to restore citizen’s trust in the health system. Fetai said that the new government, which was elected on 3 June after a two-year-long political crisis, is resolutely pro-European and reformist, a total break with the previous government which ran the country for eleven years amid corruption scandals and under-investment in social sectors.

Fetai said that the Minister took this decision in his third week in office, during his first meeting with civil society representatives – “a great example of budget advocacy at work.” Unfortunately, he added, Taravari has been requested by his party to run for Mayor of his hometown in local elections scheduled for 22 October. Taravari has communicated that he won’t come back to the Ministry whether he wins the election or not.

Le nouveau gouvernement macédonien prévoit un budget pour les traitements par ARV et les services de prévention ciblant les populations clés affectées, alors que le soutien du Fonds Mondial prend fin

L’administration Duterte a pratiquement aboli la Commission, en l’accusant « d’ingérence » dans sa guerre meurtrière contre la drogue.

MANILA, Philippines – The Philippines boasted of its own Commission on Human Rights (CHR) to counter Iceland and 38 other countries that criticized the killings and the "climate of impunity" in President Rodrigo Duterte's war on drugs.

The Philippine Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) cited Ambassador Maria Teresa Almojuela, Philippine deputy permanent representative to the United Nations (UN) in Geneva, in a statement Friday, September 29.

The DFA issued this comment after Iceland delivered a statement on behalf of 38 other countries at the UN against the "climate of impunity" in the Philippines. The Philippine government denounced these countries' statement "sweeping and politicized."

"Unlike some states that joined Iceland, Ambassador Almojuela said the Philippines actually has a functioning and independent Commission on Human Rights that is also fully compliant with the Paris Principles," the DFA said.

Almojuela explained, "There is no culture of impunity in the Philippines. We have internal mechanisms to investigate all law enforcement operations that lead to deaths."

This comes as Duterte blasts the CHR for supposedly meddling in his anti-drug campaign, and as Duterte's allies at the House of Representatives practically want the CHR abolished. (READ: 'Demonizing' human rights in the first year of Duterte).

Les Philippines se vantent que leur Commission sur les droits humains ait contré l’Islande et 38 pays en ce qui concerne les assassinats

Une manifestantation pour le promotion du cannabis thérapeutique, le 10 octobre 2017 à Londres-AFP/Archives/Daniel LEAL-OLIVAS

Le congrès péruvien a adopté à une large majorité jeudi l'utilisation du cannabis à fin thérapeutique, répondant ainsi à une demande de longue date de la société civile.

La loi doit maintenant être promulguée par le pouvoir exécutif pour entrer en application.

Ce projet de loi avait provoqué un long débat dans le pays, le Pérou étant le second producteur mondial de feuilles de coca, la base de la cocaïne.

Les promoteurs de ce texte ont toujours précisé qu'il ne s'agissait pas de consommer le cannabis en tant que tel, mais uniquement d'en extraire ses composantes médicinales pour un usage dans le cadre de traitements anti-douleurs.

Pérou: le congrès autorise le cannabis à fin thérapeutique

L'Espace Gaïa aide depuis un an les usagers de drogues dans le quartier de la gare du Nord (10e). Reportage sur ce dispositif de santé publique, unique dans son genre dans la capitale, qui assure un suivi social de personnes souvent en grande précarité.

Jour après jour, l'Espace Gaïa fait son nid. «L’idée était d’absorber un maximum des consommations qui avaient lieu dans l’espace public, explique Céline Debaulieu, coordinatrice de la salle de consommation à moindre risque, installée dans l'enceinte de l'hôpital Lariboisière (10e). Un an après notre ouverture – en octobre 2016 – cet objectif est atteint : les usagers de drogues viennent en nombre à la salle. 800 personnes y sont inscrites et plus de 53.000 consommations s’y sont déroulées, soit autant de consommations en moins sur l’espace public». 165 actes de consommation sont comptabilisés chaque jour dans la salle.

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