International organisations have welcomed Thailand's decision to remove the leg shackles from death row inmates, but say other forms of ill treatment still need to be addressed.
About 85 % of female inmates are being held for drug-related offences and Thailand, that has the world's highest number of women prisoners - almost 19,000 - after the United States.
AIDS is perhaps the pre-eminent example of successful investment in health: as a result of investments in HIV, mortality from AIDS and the number of new infections have decreased worldwide by 25 per cent in just the past five years.
User profiles of heroin in Serbia have changed since the 1970s. As they are now at the margins of society, they face serious health and social discrimination despite existing protective laws.
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Despite increasing regional debate in Latin America on drug policy reforms, Brazil is at risk of sliding backwards and is poised to enact even harsher, rights-violating drug policies with the approval of new laws.
